(Youth) Hostels

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FlabbergastedAgain25 · 14/08/2025 18:22

I've been using hostels and bunkhouses for 40-50 years, and based upon completing a feedback questionnaire and the request to complete 3 additional EDI questions I have just discovered that YHA (England and Wales) now ask about your gender identity...and when questioned about the situation they state that beds in dorms are based on gender identity not sex. I can't see where this is explicitly stated in their website.

Apparently they've responded to the EHRC consultation and are awaiting clarification before changing their current approach...

Have I been naive to not have realised female on their booking link does not mean biologically female?

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Columbidae · 14/08/2025 18:48

It's been their policy for years. I remember it being discussed here when women who wanted a female only dorm were told to contact them and disclose very personal information, such as abuse, in order for YHA to consider granting them a female only space. I don't know if they still require that, but as you say it is gender rather than sex.

OneWildandWonderfulLife · 14/08/2025 18:46

YHA have had this policy for years, I think there were many threads about this in ?2018. Not that I am saying you are naive, because who would think that in any sane world that policy would be appropriate?

WeMeetInFairIthilien · 14/08/2025 18:29

And that is why I only book private rooms with the YHA.

Yes, I was aware of this.

YHA Beer has 2 mixed sex toilet and shower rooms. Each room has 2 toilets with a standard height partition, a shared sink and two (solid door) shower enclosures. The room has no door, it has been removed and is open to the corridor.

Clearly, one was once the male toilet/washrooms, and the other was the female.

unwashedanddazed · 14/08/2025 18:26

Not naive, but deliberately deceived.

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