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Anger as gender neutral toilets introduced at primary school without parents knowing

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MrsSnippyPants · 03/11/2018 14:17

www.warringtonguardian.co.uk/news/17197253.anger-as-gender-neutral-toilets-introduced-at-primary-school-without-parents-knowing/?ref=twtrec

I would be furious about this. Girls often start their periods at primary school and can take a while to get the hang of dealing with them. They absolutely need somewhere private to wash hands etc.
I thought single sex toilet provision was compulsory from age 8?

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SirVixofVixHall · 03/11/2018 14:36

The more I hear of Stonewall the more dubious they seem.

SirVixofVixHall · 03/11/2018 14:35

How can a primary school have anything to do with Stonewall for a start ? Surely Primary School age children won’t have any real sense of their sexual orientation. Why are we so keen to sexualise children ?
That’s before you get into the issue of not allowing girls any privacy or dignity, girls who as pp says, may start their periods at nine, ten or eleven.

Geraniumpink · 03/11/2018 14:30

I don’t know if anyone else saw that program a year or so ago about making a class environment gender neutral - things like getting the class teacher to stop calling the girls ‘love’ etc. The only thing the boys and girls really hated was making the toilets unisex. Really not a good idea.

donajimena · 03/11/2018 14:30

A stonewalled champion? Says it all