Universities which do/don’t respect women’s rights

Agree Dragon but all massively captured areas. You might be better checking individual academic profiles for lunacy/GC.

Justine confirmed no further details forthcoming from Aston. MN FWR posts still classified as hateful transphobes rather than women concerned about women’s rights and children safeguarding.

Has Aston Uni repented of its antiTERF data-scraping shenanigans or is it still unregenerate? Where did Mumsnet get to with that? I never heard the end of the story, so it may be still ongoing.

Reading has confirmed it will comply with the Supreme Court ruling (AFAIK it's the only university to do so - I haven't seen any others making statements about it) and has been excellent about protecting freedom of speech.

Interesting, thankfully I'm not in this position with teens now but a couple of mine DC went to catered and shared bathrooms (as too lazy to clean an ensuite). The female bathrooms would definitely have been a risky environment for women . You would be mixing youngsters, alcohol, lack of adult oversight with showers..often late at night and perhaps when no one around. Even if trans person was "nice" it wouldn't be something I would support for a young adult leaving home for the first time.

that’s actually a really good question to be asking before applying. unis tend to give very vague answers when it comes to policy around single-sex spaces or safeguarding. i’ve heard mixed things, oxford reportedly has clearer boundaries on that, while places like edinburgh and bristol have had ongoing debates and student protests. depends a lot on how active student unions are too.

TRAs banging on the windows at Bristol Uni today as Prof Alice Sullivan gave a talk. Seems like the mounted police were called as they became more aggressive!

https://x.com/profalices/status/1981027679332687923?s=46&t=ZX_bLozRqm8etdGICMcAvA

I think Reading Uni really comes out tops. Oxford and Cambridge facilities seem to be OK when provided by the Uni. But within Colleges I understand it's more mixed and some are def unacceptable.

St Andrews - mostly gender neutral but in faculty buildings they are all single cubicles off the main corridors. Due to plumbing there are only a few toilet cubicles on each floor so practically that works. There are also some single sex shere

My place was full on wokerati, but the advice that anyone should use the lavatories/changing rooms they felt aligned with their identity (which had been the trumpeted policy, written by trans students, apparently, not even grown ups!) magically disappeared from our website after the SC ruling.

LSE has a few gender neutral loos with lots of loos labelled boys girls disabled. And thankfully left Stonewall too

I'm assuming she intends to publish it and embarass the hell out of the sector (because most, if not all, won't be following the law) but haven't the foggiest idea about her timelines [for info to others on the thread, this is about Jo Phoenix collecting data on university policies about toilet and changing room access]

Stirling University has gender neutral toilets and I used to work at Glasgow university and still have friends there - they don't respect women's rights.

University of Edinburgh has a policy that “All students can use the toilet facilities that align with their gender identity” Trans Policy (Students).pdf.pdf (Paragraph 8.2).

There are many multiple-occupancy toilets on campus labelled M or F, but as the equality impact assessment for that policy admits: “The University recognises that, as a matter of law, access to facilities on the basis of gender identity makes those facilities mixed-sex rather than single sex facilities.” StatementStudentExperienceTransPolicy(Students)EqIAFeb_2025.pdf
Staff policies are the same.

If that puts you off going there, then please do write and tell them so.

There's a figleaf claim that “We mitigate this risk by providing single occupancy toilet facilities throughout our estate, alongside more open and/or mixed options”. While it's true there are some single occupancy facilities in some buildings, it's by no means common.

I wonder how many women will apply for the sharing with a trans person option?

When Michael Foran was still at Glasgow their senior leadership defended him from the TRA bullies so I hope that university may be ok?

Edinburgh is, as we all know, beyond saving and totally captured

I believe that Bath accommodations state that if you request LGBTQ-friendly accommodation, you cannot also apply for single-sex accommodation. I took that as meaning that they acknowledge that single-sex accommodation must do what it says on the tin. (I could be interpreting incorrectly…)

scores through York on list

A lot of the toilets at Hull are mixed sex but you can go to the other blocks to the old, separate toilets. I usually use the disabled ones in my building as I don't feel comfortable with all the men in the other toilets not to mention they are disgusting. More unflushed toilets than just ladies.