Gender neutral toilets in schools aren’t working
from Transgender Trend:
More and more schools are installing gender neutral toilets as a replacement for single sex facilities, out of a misapprehension that toilets must be inclusive of both sexes. The ubiquitous term ‘gender neutral’ is just a euphemism for ‘mixed-sex’ toilets, a major policy change. We have looked at newspaper reports to see how this change has gone down with pupils and parents in schools where it has been implemented across the country. Common themes emerge from reading these reports, which we have quoted from below, and the overall message is very clear: gender neutral toilets aren’t working in schools.
October 2014
The first report we found was from 2014 and this example of a school in Newhaven sets the tone: children don’t like sharing toilets with the opposite sex:
“Angry parents have complained after a primary school introduced unisex toilets in a bid to ‘prevent transphobia’.
“Pupils at Harbour Primary School in Newhaven, East Sussex, were shocked to discover they had to share the ‘gender neutral’ toilets at the start of the school year.
“Many parents say their children do not want to share facilities with the opposite sex because it makes them feel ‘uncomfortable’.
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