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/

So a concerned member of the public who is sufficiently concerned to learn how to campaign effectively somehow ceases to be a concerned member of the public and can be dismissed as a "vexatious activist"? How very convenient.

And, rather less conveniently, I'm afraid, there is an option on email called 'Bcc'.

Your arrogance is astounding. Would you say that to your child, your sister, your friend, your mother? Just disbelieve them because you feel like it? I feel like there are too many posters this week who just disbelieve women's experiences because they can, because they want to, because it hasn't happened to them personally.

Well, I sincerely hope it never does happen to you. It's a terrible way to learn humility and empathy.

Remember 'me too' when believing women's testimony was seen to be the right thing to do? What ever happened to that?

Yeah, that was a brief moment in time, wasn't? Blink and you've missed it!

I suppose men experience fewer of these kinds of incidents though, so the less empathetic ones, like this poster, struggle to understand how women feel in such situations

I believe her

The changing cubicles at our local pool had to have cage things fitted over the tops because so many men were climbing up to watch women and children getting changed

Clearly the important thing to do when complaining is to also send a copy to translucent, so they don't need to go through the tedious effort of all those FoIs.

I disagree. Cameras could have been installed, which happened nearby to where I live. Plus, that setup is putting people with seizures at risk, like my daughter. Fully enclosed cubicles are not the solution.

Absinthe should be treated with extreme caution imo 👀

It’s their word against his. If he is believed (quite a likely scenario), or staff and police don’t take it seriously, then they put their safety at risk.

You don’t know much about these things do you.

It's been fascinating to watch the craziness of zoo's posts gradually ramp up over the last couple of days. I fear for their blood pressure.

Sorry I wasn’t very clear. I don’t believe that single occupancy. Universal toilets have a solution at all. I believe in single sex with cubicles not those dangerous universal toilet arrangements.

Good point. Well made.

The irony of your chosen username when you have the hubris to suggest you speak for everyone.

Take note ... you don't

I'd complain about single sex spaces like mum and baby groups, which always seem to have men in them

I want safe toilets for everyone. It just so happens the safest design is single sex toilets within a single sex environment.

Before the FWS win, the safest designs were being eroded in provision as there was confusion over whether the area in front of the toilets could actually be single sex. When it’s ambiguous, the designs go private. Now it is reconfirmed the washroom area is indeed single sex, and after LS v NHS England, and EHRC, there are no barriers to the safest design saving lives.

I am a toilet safety researcher and have spent the last few years gathering a lot of real-life evidence and data.

@Zoonosis in constrast, is making stories up about bears.

I think it's well established by now that most sensible women will in fact choose the bear.

Do you mean parent and baby groups? My husband took our children to one. It might have been called mum and baby, but it was actually for anyone caring for a child.

I suspect they were originally for mums and their babies before they were made inclusive

A space taken from women

I guess a 'mum and baby' group could meet the Equality Act definition of a single-sex space if it had some legitimate aim, but it's hard to see why a group where children get to play or sing nursery rhymes or whatever would need to exclude a grandmother, say, or a father.

Yeah - its not a big deal personally, but someone in a toilet doesnt bother me, but men in groups that would've been mainly for women does

I understand that. I guess that in the past the parent would nearly always be the mum and so it felt like they were female-only spaces. Now that so many more dads do some childcare that has obviously changed.

I'm glad you are not bothered by the toilets. I hope that you have read some of these threads and understand why other women value and even need single-sex toilets, for a variety of reasons up to and including trauma from serious previous sexual assaults by men.

No I understand people's concerns re toilets. Although we wouldnt know if a transperson is using the toilet as they would be living as a woman

With parenting spaces - motherhood should be protected imo, despite men doing childcare. As a vulnerable woman, I dont want a man there when I want to discuss my breasts

I feel they're similar things to be concerned about

I am not arguing with you BTW, was just musing x

Interesting. My son who came home from college, so perhaps slightly older, moaned about the gender neutral toilets. And he is gay. So no issue with using facilities for the correct sex, apart from of course the perennial complaint about the state of the men's toilets. But he is not a girl or a woman so for HIM perhaps it doesn't matter who is in the next cubicle. Whereas for girls and women it does. So you, your friend, and your friend's son do need to understand why it is not appropriate

Yep, same at the public pools in two different cities I’ve lived in recently.

Unfortunately they didn’t do anything about the bottom of the cubicles and left a gap, where I currently live. Which has led to local newspaper reports, on at least two separate occasions I’m aware of, about phones being shoved under to film women undressing.

Voyeurism of that type isn’t exclusively a male crime, but it’s very heavily weighted that way, and unisex changing ‘villages’ give the dirty fuckers more opportunity. They’re less safe for women than single sex facilities.