Apparently there has only been one single complaint to English Councils about single sex spaces in 2025

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https://translucent.org.uk/trans-women-and-single-sex-spaces-2026-uk-council-foi-report/

I mean, I wrote about six just on my own so....

How many complaints were actually made I wonder? How have they gone missing?

I know for sure several of my complaints were never documented in official channels , just quietly killed. But I cannot of been the only complainant in England surely?

Hilarious Reddit thread link about this if you want https://www.reddit.com/r/transgenderUK/comments/1tvioe0/trans_women_and_singlesex_spaces_2026_uk_council/

I mean, I wrote about six just on my own so....

Brighton & Hove was one of the 2 out of 62 Unitary Authorities who refused to provide an answer to an FOI.

BTW They only contacted Unitary Authorities so there will be plenty of areas of the country that were not surveyed e.g. only Peterborough, Southend & Thurrock are Unitary Authorities in East Anglia so the rest of Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex & Cambridgeshire was ignored.

Well it's not bloody surprising given that any woman who complains about a man in their space gets crucified.

And women don't tend to confront men directly because they have no idea who they are dealing with and VAGW is so prevalent.

As a tip - always complain or cc the complaint to the councils specific complaints email. The department charged with receiving complaints are more likely to record the complaint than the department complained about.

This is for any complaint.

I wouldn't have bothered complaining until very recently. I would have assumed the rozzers would be around for a word about my awful hate crime.

Lol. Says the organisation who protest outside women's meeting and conferences where protesters issue threats of violence and sexual abuse at women for daring to meet without their permission.

Can anyone suggest why women might be are cautious / intimidated / fearful for their safety given these men's behaviour?

Well you know what they say about lies, damn lies and statistics

This was discussed on another thread. All it shows is for the vanishingly few council-run toilets that people can complain to the council about, people have not rung up the council and if they have, the council have not logged the complaint down.

People do complain about toilets: getting trapped, organised sex, filthy state including needles and syringes, smell, lack of hot water and soap, assaults including those on cleaners, arson, people living in them.

There’s no duty on councils to provide toilets. But everyone needs them. What we can do is create designs that prevent misuse. The best design is a single sex set of cubicles, with door gaps, within a single sex environment.

Maybe they were only counting complaints from actual service users. It’s unclear why anyone should be taking complaints about the women’s facilities coming from a man particularly seriously.

This wasn't just looking at public toilets, it was looking at any single-sex facility, including toilets and changing rooms, whether for staff or visitors, within any public-run space or building.

I’ve complained to my city council about something different. They wrote back to say that they did not accept the complaint…… so there’s that

Have any people who have complained cc'd Sex Matters (or similar) with a copy of their email or letter, which would be proof of a complaint having been made?

Who would someone complain to? Would you ring up the council or would you speak to the manager of the facility? Where would they log the complaints? Would they even log them? Would they pass them on? Do they have systems in place to do so?

I worked for the council as a summer job collecting payments. When we had letters of complaints along with the payments, we didn’t log them. I chucked them in the bin like everyone else.

Regarding the definition of public toilet. There are various definitions. The Sexual Offences Act (2003) defines it for
71Sexual activity in a public lavatory
a)he is in a lavatory to which the public or a section of the public has or is permitted to have access, whether on payment or otherwise,

Toilets are such vulnerable spaces they get their own section. It continues:

b)he intentionally engages in an activity, and,
(c)the activity is sexual.
(2)For the purposes of this section, an activity is sexual if a reasonable person would, in all the circumstances but regardless of any person’s purpose, consider it to be sexual.

This would be useful, since it would reveal how many complaints come from vexatious organised activists rather than genuine concerned members of the public.

Why shouldn't they take it seriously? Do you think men don't have caring responsibilities for daughters or elderly female relatives? Why shouldn't men complain on their mother's behalf?
I hope that's clearer for you.

Can you tell me why I’m a vexatious organised activist rather than just a father of a daughter please?

Me, approaching the manager of a gym: Excuse me, I’d like to make a complaint. There’s a bear in the gent’s toilets.

The Manager: Oh my goodness. Did you see this bear?

Me: No, I didn’t actually see it, I’m just worried that it’s in there.

The Manager: Well, have you checked?

Me: No, I can’t check, I’m a woman, I can’t go in there.

The Manager: OK, so what is the basis of your concern exactly?

Me: That there’s a bear in there.

The Manager: Ok. So you’re worried that there might be a bear in this toilet that you don’t use?

Me: Yes. I’m concerned about protecting men.

The Manager: Has a man told you that there’s a bear in there?

Me: No, but I know they’re just scared to speak up, so I need to do it for them.

The Manager: Ok, so you haven’t seen a bear, no one’s told you there’s a bear, you can’t check if there’s a bear, but you’re complaining that there’s a bear?

Me: Yes.

The Manager: And just to be clear, you don’t use these facilities yourself, so you’re complaining about the bear on behalf of the people that do, even though they haven’t asked you to?

Me: Yes. And if you don’t take my complaint seriously I’ll take legal action.

The Manager: Ok, I’ll send someone to check.

5 minutes later

The Manager: Ok, there is no bear, and the men in there have asked you to
please stop hanging around the door and peering in looking for bears because it’s making them uncomfortable.

Me: I’m furious this wasn't taken seriously, I’d better go and tell Mensnet about this, I’m sure they will appreciate my efforts to protect them from bears

Because you're posting on an activist forum to organise further activism.

Please, no one report that ^ for deletion. It needs to stand. It's priceless!

(to be clear, I mean the bear post!)

Yes we should let the bears in.

I don't know what you mean, I'm genuinely furious that my multiple complaints about bears in the gents toilets weren't taken with the seriousness they deserve. This isn't any laughing matter, my son could have been eaten by that bear, if there had been a bear, and if he had been in those toilets at the time, and if he was speaking to me instead of ignoring all my texts warning him about bears.

You are absolute comedy gold!
Keep going!

#letthemspeak

I agree, it is genuinely hilarious that somebody would so persistently pursue an unfounded vexatious complaint about a facility they don't even use themselves.

Oh stop! My sides are about to split!
You're genuinely hilarious

I have complained in prior years to local council and private facilities that receive public grants. Never received any acknowledgement. I am sure many complaints were binned and not recorded correctly.

Women wanting single sex spaces are not ‘vexatious organised activists’. Hope that helps.