Obligation to Provide At Least Some Single Sex Toilets?

[Dragon3]

Are larger venues such as theatres and museums obliged to offer some single sex toilets? Even if most of their facilities are mixed sex?

I'm planning a visit to a city with a vulnerable female. She would simply not use the toilet if there was no SS option available and we would probably have to avoid anywhere that can't provide one.

Could we go to a manager and ask them to direct us to the female toilet with the expectation that there will be at least one?

I'm not clear on the law here. Not talking about coffee shops and the like. More about larger museums, galleries, theatres. Especially those in receipt of public funds.

I agree with you. But the way things stand at the moment, the SS provision will be proudly used by transwomen as a demonstration of their femaleness (with fuck all interest in what this does to the women who need access to exclusively biological female provision).

Thanks Knicknack. That issue worries me too. I have two questions, I suppose:

1. If we came across a male, trans or not, in the female bathroom, could we come out of the toilet and say to a manager 'there is a male in the female toilets, please direct me to a single sex bathroom'. Or does the venue/gallery/theatre have no obligation to provide single sex facilities?

1. In wokey places that have made their toilets gender neutral (e.g. the National Theatre, I think) can we insist on being directed to a single sex toilet?

You should insist as much as you can on being directed to a single sex toilet, in an activism sense, to push the demand. Whether or not you can be expected to have that accommodated in the law, is another matter.