Women's Rights Network write to NPCC about Supreme Court ruling staff survey,

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https://x.com/WomensRightsNet/status/1943597311705129235?t=N-NVPH-N7VKPeXH9GtAKoA&s=19

We have written to Chief Constable Gavin Stephens, Chair of the NPCC @PoliceChiefs to express our serious concerns over their:

➡️ Messaging in an internal survey
➡️ Lack of concern for female officers and staff
➡️ Failure of police forces to adequately and promptly comply with the law following the Supreme Court judgment.

Our police service must do a lot better than this to regain female trust and confidence.

It will be very interesting to see Gavin Stephens response after the Ireland debacle.
https://x.com/WomensRightsNet/status/1939204701355958572?t=sYQrj1-vASq8pZZP35cT2g&s=19

THREAD. 🧵
“I honestly could not believe what I was reading when I saw this survey. As a gender critical police officer, I have been openly called a 'nazi, 'fascist', 'militant' and 'obtuse' - just for expressing my views post-Forstater".

This National Police Chiefs’ (NPCC) survey 👇 has been circulated to officers and staff nationally following the Supreme Court judgment. A serving police officer leaked the survey to us and shared their shock.

We suggest the NPCC (the head honchos of every UK police force) just need to follow the law. Now.

(WRN will not share the link to this survey publicly)
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The officer said:"There is no mention of the horrendous treatment of gender critical people and, indeed, it actually goes above and beyond to imply my abusers might be the actual victims of the ruling"."I have no hope that the current NPCC might do the decent thing and kick ideology out of policing once and for all. They seem intent on destroying the trust of the public, undermining the law and trashing what little morale there is left within the rank and file”.Read on – and brace yourselves.

Oh come on NPCC, surely you’ve learned your lesson by now? How much longer will you target Conspicuously Law-Abiding Women and offer preferential treatment to paedophiles? Surely one ET on ridiculous staff training is enough to get you to stop this? Let’s see the Police obey the law.

It's good to see the WRN letter references not just the EA, but also Workplace regs - provision of single-sex facilities is not just an EA thing, as a lot of the negative reaction to the SC ruling has suggested: workplace, health and safety and building regs all have something to say about real-life rather than theoretical women-only spaces.

The fact that most existing buildings already have sex-segregated toilets, for instance, means that providing an adequate number of women-only toilets is usually a 'no change' situation, unless an organisation decides to remove some of them, as the Barbican did.
And building regs also require sex-segregated facilities in the first place, with 'universal' cubicles as an option in some circumstances, e.g. lack of space, in new builds.

So it's not like the provision of women-only toilets involves any great expense or disruption, they are usually already there.

It's the addition of gender-neutral toilets for the small number of people who will not use the toilet designated for their sex that causes great expense and disruption.