As far as toilets are concerned, I find the French tend to use whichever one is free, and I commend them for it.
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I always thought the French had a better, more grownup attitude to toilets and suchlike. When the male toilets are closed use the female and vice versa. I think the UK might be catching up. On a recent Wetherspoons visit, only for the diversity of the ale, honestly, there was a notice on the Gents saying that female staff cleaned them. Sure enough, when I went in there was a woman in there with her mop etc.
Did she refuse your tip? 
In a public unisex toilet I go with the one touch rule if the seat is up I put it down afterwards if it was down I put it up and leave it that way. Fair seat pratice for all
Around here, the front nearside wheel of the car seems more popularā¦
That is correct, but some wanted to be identified as biological females, which would require a change of sex, rather than individuals who have had gender reassigned to become trans-females.
Itās all right for you blokes 
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Dont knock until youve tried it
In our local park here in South London a women of colour dropped her draws and went beside a tree as I was walking the dog. There are actually toilets 200m away, I wondered if she was French.
Was she an artist?
If in the coutryside that really does surprise me. One of the major differences between British and French lorry drivers was that the Brits ācooled the brakesā of the front wheel whereas the French turned their backs to the lorry and faced the wildlife. Much more environmentally appropriate too, fertilizer to the latter but a British tarmaced lorry park stinks to high heaven.
I think what created the problem in the UK was a desire to be kind, coupled with a lack of impartial information. It meant that the people who were loudest - the trans ideologists - got their way with little challenge apart from that from the likes of Jordan Peterson and others who equally had an ideology.
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The French are a bit brazen when it comes to watering the horses in public. I went on an exchange visit and the family drove to some friends. At their house, the husband, who hadnāt been driving, leapt out of the car and proceeded to pee in the friendsā garden.
You need a SheWee.
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Not in an area with speed bumps
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Ah, but is that to stop the dogs from drinking from it 
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A commune near us has just built a new toilet block at one end of a car park. It has two external urinals just bolted to the outside of the block and facing the car park. Only in France 
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Just somewhere to hang out 
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Correct. I wonder how many on here have actually known a person who has undergone gender reassignment, both before, during and after the long and arduous process. Itās not something that is done on a whim or with regret as some vocal groups seem to suggest. Itās not done for any other reason that the person truly believes they have the wrong sex. Many people who feel trapped in the wrong body often commit suicide because of the stress of being who they are not.
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āConundrumā by Jan Morris is an excellent book for understanding gender reassignment. She knew from not much more than a toddler she was in the wrong body (as James Morris) and went on to do all the āmanlyā things to somehow subjugate that knowledge including being the only journalist on the 1953 ascent of Everest.
Iāve had 2 friends who transitioned with surgery, 1 M-F and 1 F-M. Both have talked of having long-term feelings of being the opposite sex, both had married in their birth gender and both were divorced (one fathered 2 sons).
In one case Iād say there was a complicated mental health pattern, and in the other there was a suggestion of abuse in the marriage. It seems to me one of them had additional mental health issues, possibly stemming from alleged childhood sexual abuse by a medic.
Both moved away and did not maintain contact, possibly trying to start new lives.