Another victim of mixed sex toilets

This is despicable

Horrific.

I wonder if anything can be done by Ofsted.

This is a clear safeguarding risk.

Every school that has mixed sex toilets should be rated Inadequate by Ofsted.

They would soon change their tune.

Interestingly the school in question started out as a boys only school in 1954, it seems that the attitude towards girls has not evolved since then.

This is a totally unacceptable situation, that poor girl. I have emailed Minister for Women and Equalities, Kemi Badenoch, the local MP Colleen Fletcher and the Secretary of State for Education Gillian Keegan to bring this to their attention. Probably won't do any good at all, but maybe if enough people did they might actually do something.

That poor girl! The toilets should not be mixed, as this article very clearly shows. Obviously we can all agree the violence is completely wrong.

Even in general I don't think I'd like it now as a 30 yr old woman. I was morto in womens bathrooms opening pads etc in my teens I can't imagine doing that in a mix one as a self conscious teen.

This is horrendous.
Hope the parents go to the police/ofsted/ and sue the arse off the school and the LA, this girl has suffered harm as a result of the school’s lack of safeguarding.

Captured by Stonewall LizzieSiddal. 😓

I reckon if we actually looked at how many schools are in hock to Stonewall who are busily gaslighting children to believe they've been born in the wrong body and that girls have no right to boundaries from boys and men, we'd be horrified.

It makes me so angry that teachers have so little regard for their female students, and don’t care what is/can happen to them in mixed sex toilets.

Why aren’t they up in arms about this!

When a school tells parents that "evidence shows that mixed sex toilets are beneficial" - ask them from their data.
There is none - except from the very self interested toilet manufacturers / installers who push this fake fact at schools for their own financial benefit. Stonewall captured schools just accept this with girls repeatedly being the casualties.

Regrettably, parents need to go to the Police and file a complaint rather than relying on the school to take action.

awful! girls must have single sex toilets.

I don't want to derail the thread but, as an example, the Girls' Day School Trust has been very clear on this - and predictably has had loads of criticism e.g. from Penis News.

Excerpts from GDST Gender Identity policy:

The GDST is committed to single-sex education for girls. Admissions to GDST schools are based on the prospective student’s legal sex as recorded on their birth certificate.

GDST schools are able to operate a single-sex admissions policy, without breaching the Equality Act 2010 on the basis of an exemption relating to biological sex. The GDST believes that an admissions policy based on gender identity rather than the legal sex recorded on a student’s birth certificate would jeopardise the status of GDST schools as single-sex schools under the act. For this reason, GDST schools do not accept applications from students who are legally male.

The boy needs a proper punishment too - this is at least three transgressions in one, violation of privacy, physical injury and the intent to take a photo of her undressed.
Just having a door kicked in on you fully dressed is frightening as fuck, let alone the violation of voyeurism and head injury on top.

I don’t know how things work within a school system but as a mother I would want a police report made. This isn’t normal teenage lack of impulse control, it’s sexually predatory behaviour.

Bloody hell! That's terrible.

Why the push for unisex toilets? I once wrote to a local theather about the conversion of the ladies' to unisex toilets.

About 4 years ago, DD herself rejected one of three posible secondary schools because the toilets were unisex. Stupidly, I didn't even think of it! But at 11-12 she just knew, luckily.

I hope the police are involved.

What happens with an injury like this caused by another pupil as a result of failure of the school safeguarding wise? MASH referral?

Any safeguarding experts out there?

Surely the girl will be too scared to return to school.

I just forwarded the link to the Women and Equalities Committee - sure it will do nothing but I think I might just start forwarding them any news stories like this

The predators are being enabled by the school.

Is anyone monitoring outcomes from these cases? Is anyone at the school going to be held accountable for breaking the law and serious safeguarding failures? Which parents WARNED about from the sounds of it.

The Head really needs to lose their job.

That head wound is horrific, poor girl. No wonder she is too embarrassed to go to school after that. What a horrific environment for girls to be forced to attend.

The school should be cracking down on this like a megaton of bricks, but it sounds like they have been aware of the issues for a while and aren't taking it seriously.

I wonder if the assault has been reported to the police.

That is absolutely disgusting, That poor girl, All those poor girls and some of the boys also by the sounds of it. I mean who the hell is benefiting from any of this apart from the bloody bullys!

God that poor girl, how mortifying!

I remember very quietly opening pads in school, so embarrassed that someone might hear, and we had single sex toilets! I can't imagine the humiliation of trying to change a pad or tampon while boys act like animals kicking doors in.

Absolutely disgusting of the school. And disgusting of the parents of those boys to fail so badly in raising them, to be honest.

No but there's less chance this would happen and she could speak to the head to sound them out and make it clear single sex (not gender) would be a requirement for paying to join.

Plenty of head teachers haven't totally abandoned safeguarding: my dds school (state) has single sex loos.

Fucking hell.

I hope the mum does sue the school.

Wtf is wrong with school management, subjecting kids to this bizarre social experiment?

Give our girls their toilets back.

I hope this girl's mum sues the school, LA and Dfe so she can get enough money to send her daughter to a single sex private school

Going to an all girls school is no guarantee these days that there won't also be people with penises at the school.

I’m not surprised in the least. In my day we didn’t have mixed sex toilets, thank goodness, but there were boys who thought it was acceptable to grope girls, and also boys who’d rummage through girls’ school bags to find sanitary products to snigger at.

I wonder if the management of that school are clueless and naive, or if they think incidents like these are acceptable collateral damage?