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BBC lets women work from home if they don't want to share toilets with biological males

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BunfightBetty · 27/10/2025 12:22

According to the Mail, the BBC are still flouting the law, following the Supreme Court ruling.

If you're a woman BBC employee and object to males in your single sex spaces, it is you who must make way for the man. The BBC will graciously consider your request to work from home, but will not tell the man he needs to use the gents.

Apparently, they're another set of numpties waiting for the ECHR guidance before they deign to obey the law.

I think for me this is the final straw that will see me stopping my licence fee direct debit.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15230137/BBC-let-staff-work-home-worried-policy-allows-biological-males-womens-toilets-despite-Supreme-Court-gender-ruling.html

BBC staff told to WFH to avoid using toilets with trans colleagues

The broadcast corporation's review of its policy comes as the Government prepares new policies following the Supreme Court's ruling on the Equality Act earlier this year.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15230137/BBC-let-staff-work-home-worried-policy-allows-biological-males-womens-toilets-despite-Supreme-Court-gender-ruling.html

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BunfightBetty · 27/10/2025 12:57

MelOfTheRoses · 27/10/2025 12:40

Does that include all the female employees or just the ones that take a laptop home 🤔

That’s a point. There could be not just misogyny at work here, but class-based prejudice and elitism too.

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JustReacher · 27/10/2025 12:45

The BBC have lost it.

GCAcademic · 27/10/2025 12:45

How inclusive of them. They would prefer to keep women away from the workplace rather than obey the law.

ExpertInAbsolutelyZero · 27/10/2025 12:42

That is outrageous. Blaming the victim, again. It should be topic for Question Time.

Tiredofwhataboutery · 27/10/2025 12:42

I have just cancelled my subscription, never watch it anyway. Worth cancelling properly through website as you pay in advance. I’m getting a £90 refund. If you just cancel your DD they automatically use your credit for the next six months.

MelOfTheRoses · 27/10/2025 12:40

Does that include all the female employees or just the ones that take a laptop home 🤔

OpheliaWitchoftheWoods · 27/10/2025 12:39

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This has been withdrawn by MNHQ at the poster's request.

borntobequiet · 27/10/2025 12:37

guinnessguzzler · 27/10/2025 12:29

It would be interesting to know what advice they have taken on that. Surely it just makes it worse as these women who have been forced into working from home then miss out on networking and development opportunities, future promotions and so on. Are there really HR / employment law people recommending this approach? It seems obviously problematic.

A novel twist on the process being the punishment.

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BunfightBetty · 27/10/2025 12:32

guinnessguzzler · 27/10/2025 12:29

It would be interesting to know what advice they have taken on that. Surely it just makes it worse as these women who have been forced into working from home then miss out on networking and development opportunities, future promotions and so on. Are there really HR / employment law people recommending this approach? It seems obviously problematic.

Well yes, IANAL but there does seem obvious legal risk there, that they are unnecessarily opening themselves up to. I’m finding it hard to imagine a legal adviser worth their salt advising that this is the prudent way forward.

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guinnessguzzler · 27/10/2025 12:29

It would be interesting to know what advice they have taken on that. Surely it just makes it worse as these women who have been forced into working from home then miss out on networking and development opportunities, future promotions and so on. Are there really HR / employment law people recommending this approach? It seems obviously problematic.

BCBird · 27/10/2025 12:23

Shocking. Feel.like withholding my licence fee.

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