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Children protesting about unisex toilets

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dimorphism · 01/03/2023 11:07

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11802555/TikTok-protests-rock-Britains-schools-Pupils-scale-gates-trash-classrooms-rules.html

It's not just about unisex toilets, it's also not being able to go to the loo during lessons (also a bigger issue for girls) and uniform.

The thing that is shocking is quotes such as boys putting phones under the toilet doors and girls not going to the loo all day. We know this happens in mixed sex spaces, it's not rocket science, why on earth weren't proper risk assessments done? It has to be illegal and sex discrimination not to prevent known risks from unisex toilets?

It's shameful that CHILDREN are having to do this themselves. Where are the adults? Where is safeguarding?

Why are the facts known to development charities for years that you need single sex toilets for girls to be able access their human right to education ignored just because it's the UK?

There are a few women like Miriam Cates and KJK who can hold their heads up high about this but not many adults are protecting children (and I include myself in this - I felt shame reading this). It's so shocking.

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dimorphism · 01/03/2023 11:19

It is really shameful the children are having to protest. I just can't get over it, really.

All the staff in those schools and the governors have broken the law and failed to safeguard the girls against sexual abuse as well as the physical harms of being too scared to use the loo all day. I'm guessing if they bothered to collect the data they'd find a lot of girls were too scared to go to school when menstruating and are therefore being denied their human right to access education during their periods.

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dimorphism · 01/03/2023 11:17

Another article

www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/23350409.weston-secondary-school-pupils-protest-uni-sex-toilets/

Yes, I think these schools are breaking the law. However, as an individual parent, complaints get brushed off. I think parents need to band together and take legal action to ensure girls rights to single sex facilities are upheld.

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RudsyFarmer · 01/03/2023 11:12

They won’t listen to the adults so perhaps they’ll now listen to the children.

SiobhanSharpe · 01/03/2023 11:12

Sorry, that wasn't worded well, it sounds, like I'm talking about
'sex toilets' .... 😧

SinnerBoy · 01/03/2023 11:11

In Southampton, two hundred pupils staged protests at Weston Secondary School yesterday after being left 'uncomfortable' by new unisex toilets.

There have been a number of comments on MN, with supporting links, pointing out that mixed sex toilets are illegal, for children over the age of 8.

How these schools have missed that is beyond me.

Ereshkigalangcleg · 01/03/2023 11:10

They didn't care, they just expected girls in school to get on with it as the second class citizens we are.

SiobhanSharpe · 01/03/2023 11:09

I thought it was indeed illegal, schools are obliged to provide separate sex toilets for children over the age of eight, aren't they?

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