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Unixsex changing rooms planned for Poynton Leisure Centre.

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vernacularthreshold123 · 19/07/2021 15:29

Poynton Leisure Centre has plans to expand onto a nearby field.
Sadly, they will put in unisex changing facilities, which will make things very unsafe for women and children.
Can anyone help me work out what to do? For example, who are the people who will provide the insurance for the new centre? Surely they must have been able to work out that attacks on woman and children will increase, when Predators in the North West of UK, find out about these plans.

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vernacularthreshold123 · 19/07/2021 15:38

@Redapplewreath

You can really only point out the statistics on safety for women and children in unisex spaces and ask why they feel this is an improvement, and ask have they done an equality impact assessment on how many regular users will be excluded from their facilities based on disability, race, culture, etc.

And why single sex provisions plus single space cubicles and family cubicles wouldn't solve all the issues much better without excluding anyone in the process.

Thank you Red, that is really good advice. I have collected statistics about attacks on women, and also the fact that women of faith prefer female only spaces. However My feeling is that the people behind these plans have another agenda and it is this. They want to pretend that rape/indecent exposure, is not really a crime. That it does have any impact on the victims. That it doesn't really "matter". I think that they also want to yell "Transphobe" if women and children point out that it DOES matter. I need to get a list of the people who have approved these plans and get them to understand the issues. The problem is that I think they understand, but, they just don't give a damn about women and children's safety..
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Redapplewreath · 19/07/2021 15:32

You can really only point out the statistics on safety for women and children in unisex spaces and ask why they feel this is an improvement, and ask have they done an equality impact assessment on how many regular users will be excluded from their facilities based on disability, race, culture, etc.

And why single sex provisions plus single space cubicles and family cubicles wouldn't solve all the issues much better without excluding anyone in the process.