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Single sex toilets in leisure centres

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NeedToChangeName · 20/04/2025 12:51

My local authority leisure centre allows TW to use single sex female toilets and changing rooms

I queried this, following recent Supreme Court judgement

They said they follow guidance from UK Active, found here https://www.ukactive.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Transgender-Guidance-22-11-2022.pdf

I have contacted UK Active, urging them to update their guidance

I encourage you to do the same

https://www.ukactive.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Transgender-Guidance-22-11-2022.pdf

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ToBeOrNotToBee · 25/04/2025 13:31

Ask them in UK Active will be paying their legal bills.

MyLimeBear · 25/04/2025 13:30

ChompinCrocodiles · 20/04/2025 18:14

All the leisure centre would need to do would be to declare there toilets single gender

Eh?

That's not a thing.

Their facilities can either be single sex or unisex. That's it.

"single-gender" toilets don't really work legally though, do they. If I say I don't have a gender-identity because I don't have that "feeling", I only have a biological sex (and no one can tell me what my gender-identity is based on my biological sex - that's what the gender-identity ideology says), then the centre doesn't provide a toilet for me.

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NeedToChangeName · 20/04/2025 18:22

ChompinCrocodiles · 20/04/2025 18:14

All the leisure centre would need to do would be to declare there toilets single gender

Eh?

That's not a thing.

Their facilities can either be single sex or unisex. That's it.

Yes, if they will continue to allow TW to use these toilets, they should be labelled as mixed sex

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Natsku · 20/04/2025 18:20

I would give them time. If they haven't corrected their policies by the end of the month then its time to complain.

ChompinCrocodiles · 20/04/2025 18:14

All the leisure centre would need to do would be to declare there toilets single gender

Eh?

That's not a thing.

Their facilities can either be single sex or unisex. That's it.

BallerinaRadio · 20/04/2025 18:13

People are frothing at the mouth sending letters, sending emails, urging everyone else to do the same... I feel sorry for the workers having to deal with this barrage

lifeturnsonadime · 20/04/2025 18:12

Write to them and copy in to your MP. The judgement is clear. This needs to stop now.

BallerinaRadio · 20/04/2025 18:11

NeedToChangeName · 20/04/2025 17:23

Any thoughts on this?

Yes, over multiple threads over multiple days. We get it. 🙄

helpfulperson · 20/04/2025 18:10

I'm sure all organisations who provide guidance covering this topic are currently reviewing to ensure compliance with the judgement. However the judgement doesn't suddenly mean that any spaces such as toilets must exclude transwomen. It allows places to have single sex areas (which actually always was the case). All the leisure centre would need to do would be to declare there toilets single gender.

Don't get me wrong I don't agree penis people should be in ladies toilets but it isn't the quick fix many are portraying it as.

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NeedToChangeName · 20/04/2025 17:23

Any thoughts on this?

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