Tried three places for lunch today and none cater for women

Yeh, but if you do any of these OP, best not do what you did here, eh?

Complain to the equalities commission or similar body? Put a comment on TripAdvisor? Put it on your Neighbourhood app if you are a member?
Good luck

Road legal scooters have to have a maximum speed of AT LEAST 8mph, not limited to 8mph

@Soontobe60 is that what you meant to write because it doesn't make any sense? Surely a "maximum speed" is the limit?

How can it be a maximum speed of 8mph and not limited to 8mph?

How tedious.

Class 3 scooters can be used on the road and they ARE limited to 8mph.

You can get bigger scooters that are not in a class. They can go faster than 8mph but you have to register them with the DVLA and you need a driving licence.

Road legal scooters have to have a maximum speed of AT LEAST 8mph, not limited to 8mph.

The point being made was that not all electric scooters are road legal. Presumably with your comment yours is.

https://www.gov.uk/mobility-scooters-and-powered-wheelchairs-rules/driving-on-the-road

Just to add a couple of comments. I have arthritis in every joint in my body and sometimes my eyes.

I cannot use a manual wheelchair as I do not have the strength and/or I am in too much pain to self propel so I use a wheelchair that someone else pushed which is handy because the chair will go in the boot of a car.

I also have a mobility scooter. Mine is the smaller type so it is meant to be on the pavement but as everyone around here parks on the pavement and Friday, which is bin day, forget it. The smaller scooters can go on a bus and some of them can go on a train.

As has been said the larger ones are road legal and can only be used on the pavement at low speeds.

Yesterday I went to the pub, on my scooter. I was able to take it in and order a drink from the seat.

As for leaving the scooter outside the pub, I currently have cuts on my face, particularly my temple, nose and under my nose and bruises on both knees and one cheek, I also have had to order new glasses as my current ones are now scratched.

This is what I risk whenever I am on my feet, add to that the constant pain and no way am I leaving my scooter out of the pub.

As for listed buildings.

There is a hotel nearish to me that claims it cannot have accessible entry and a lift because they are 'listed'. But they have a newish extension with modern rooms. In the extension is a fire door that actually gives you level access to a number of rooms. Buildings that are are type two listed can't make changes to the outside but they can inside.

As I said further up the thread information about the accessibility is what people need to know.

OP, I did not know some mobility scooters ard road legal. Totally not up to you for educating the masses, but i think you've helped a bit.
If it was me, I would have ROAD LEGAL emblazoned on a flag visible front and back if I planned to use on a road.

And you are right, disability can happen to anyone. Your circumstances sound particularly difficult and distressing, I hope you get the support you deserve to help you though dark times.

Oh I completely agree it's enraging in modern buildings where they clearly didn't consult with a single wheelchair user

My big issue is doors to disabled loos that are manual opening. Either someone has to open the door for me (and risk getting their toes run over) or I have a ridiculous battle to get in/ have to shove my way in using my feet like a snowplough. My arms are weaker than my legs, but everyone seems to assume disabled people have magic super strong extendable arms

No, absolutely. But all too often this is modern buildings that have been poorly thought through but tick the “accessibility” box because theoretically you can get a wheelchair in. The reality is that the ramp is too steep for a manual wheelchair user to get up independently (in the case of my local leisure centre, built in 2019), but it’s ok because you can call for a member of staff to come down to push you up.

Or the very modern multiplex cinema that has two wheelchair spaces in three of the 9 screens. The wheelchair spaces only have one companion seat beside them so a group of 4 can’t sit close together.

I totally understand (working in an old school building) that adjustments for access have to be accessible. But all too often this is in modern buildings too.

20 pages in and the OP still hasn't explained the actual issue with the 3 restaurants!

Why could you not get in?
Was it a tiny doorway or were there steps?

The difference is (and I say this as a disabled person) it doesn't usually require considerable expense and construction to make a restaurant accessible for someone of a different sex or ethnicity

I do feel for you, OP but why did you not get into the cafe/pub with a rollator?

Was it that the venues had stairs or steps or the fact you had the rollator with you?

It sounded as if you were trying to enter in your scooter in other posts.

Has this happened a lot or was this the first time?

Tbh it was a bloody stupid analogy. You would have had a much better, more receptive thread if you’d just told it like it is 🤷‍♀️

@Mrsmunchofmunchington was there not a pavement on this stretch of road? I'd find it terrifying to be on a 30mph road in such an open vehicle with a top speed of 8mph!

But I think the point is it IS difficult. It is limiting. It prevents spontaneity. It means people with a disability have to live a less full life. Of course people with disabilities understand not everywhere can be accessible but they also expect to be able to go out with friends.

A close friend of mine uses a wheelchair. We can’t just go to the cinema or go for lunch. We have to plan these events in a way I don’t have to plan with other people. We don’t accept that for other protected characteristics but it is still socially acceptable to exclude disabled people from every day life.

Get your point and absolutely understand your frustration but maybe a bit obtuse for some in the audience.

Hrft but anything you could do about it? Was it an older town, often they take the easy way out by claiming building unable to be adapted.