Right ladies. Now is the time to act. My very large and completely Stonewalled organisation launched a new transgender inclusion policy this year.
It includes that trans employees may use the toilets of their choice as per their gender identity. If any employee raises a concern that a trans employee can use these loos then the employee with the concern is free to use alternative facilities.
Wrt to the gym changing room, the same applies but the employee with the concern should speak to HR.
On each floor there are M&F loos and what was originally a disabled loo but since has been rebranded accessible with the mishmashed M&F symbol as signage.
The M&F loos each have private cubicles off a sink and hand drier area. The accessible loos are one loo and sink in a separate room.
The gym changing room has cubicle toilets and showers, I think one changing cubicle and most people just change in the open area by the lockers. There are only M&F changing rooms.
I am so angry there is no safe female space left I want to complain. I have been at the company a long time. I have cried in those loos as a twenty something over being dumped, as a thirty something when I miscarried and a forty something when my dad died.
I am nervous and not well versed enough about what's protected within the equality act. Do I have a right to a female loo, or are they ok to tell me to use the accessible one?