Term "unisex" is obvious for me (I am not a native English speaker), but in
JOSM validator historically has been rule "replace female=yes & male=yes to
unisex=yes".

пн, 10 окт. 2022 г., 21:56 martianfreeloader <martianfreeloa...@posteo.net>:

> Hi Amanda,
>
> No.
>
> What puzzles non-native speakers (including myself) is that English has
> a clear distinction between sex and gender (other than, for example,
> German). Yet, the term "unisex" (contains the word "sex") is used to
> designate a situation in the "gender" category, not sex.
>
> Can you help?
>
>
> On 10/10/2022 19:37, Amanda McCann wrote:
> > On Thu, 06 Oct 2022 20:05 +02:00, Zeke Farwell <ezeki...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> The proposal currently states:
> >>> Meaning of the unisex <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:unisex>=yes
> is currently unclear:
> >>>
> >>>   * gender neutral facility (as the "unisex" term in English); or
> >>>   * facility that accessible for men and women, either segregated or
> not.
> >> I do not understand what is unclear.  The term unisex is well
> >> understood among English speakers to mean "gender neutral".
> >
> > I'm a native English speaker, and I agree! I also wrote that part of the
> wiki (years ago). I think some non-native speakers treated `unisex=yes` as
> meaning “gender segregated but male & female are available”, i.e. read that
> paragraph as “some OSMers might have been wrong, and we don't know how many
> unisex=yes/no tags in OSM were affected by the misunderstanding”
> >
>
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