SINGLE SEX SPACES - WHY?

• Self ID In The UK: It seems, though, that plans for self-ID in the UK may yet be implemented, so it’s important that we remain focused -  Read more

• What Are We Fighting For? The Women’s Rights Network grew from the germ of an idea; that women who see the clear and present threat to our rights should gather in local groups and make our opposition heard - Read more

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Shops like M&S now allow men into women's changing areas - even into bra fitting areas.

• The Daily Mail: Monsoon's female changing rooms are 'open to BOTH sexes' (2022) -  Read more

• Metro: John Lewis gender neutral fitting rooms ‘put women at risk’ (2019) - Read more

• The Independent: M&S Customer Outraged Over Gender-Inclusive Fitting Rooms (2019) - Read More

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• The Independent: Fury after police commissioner claims transgender women should not be allowed to use female toilets (2021) - Read More

• The Times: Schoolgirls rejecting mixed toilets over boys’ bad behaviour (2021) - Read More

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• Toilets and changing rooms at Fair Play For Women

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An OFSTED report (June 2021) found that 79% of girls have experienced sexual assault at school, many of these assaults have happened in mixed sex toilets.

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• Schools and safeguarding at Sex Matters

• Schools and safeguarding at Safe Schools Alliance

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The NHS is supposed to provide single-sex wards, but Annex B allows mixed sex wards - even when a male has a history of sexual assault.

• NHS Guidance: Delivering same-sex accommodation guidance (Sep 2019) – Read the guidance with Annex B  (PDF doc)

• The Times: Hospital ‘dismissed claim of rape by trans attacker’ (2022) - Read More

• The Times: Trans sex offenders can go on women’s wards, hospitals advise (2021) - Read More

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• Why sex matters in healthcare at Sex Matters

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Police guidance allows a trans-identifying male officer to strip-search a woman prisoner.

• Mirror Online: Women can be strip-searched by transgender police officers who were born male (2022) - Read More

• Telegraph: Women are an ‘afterthought’ (2022) – Read More

• GBNews: ‘a devastating blow to women’s trust’ (2022) - Read More

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Vulnerable female prisoners are housed with men who say they are women - even when they are male sex offenders and have fully functioning male genitals.

• The Times: Trans sex offenders are moved into women’s jails (2021) - Read More

• Sunday Times: Trans prisoners ‘switch gender again’ once freed from women’s units (2022) - Read More

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• The campaign for the sex-based rights of women in prison at Keep Prisons Single Sex

• Women in prison and transgender prison policy at Fair Play for Women

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Nearly 90% of sexual assaults in leisure centres and public pools happens in mixed sex changing areas.

• The Times: Unisex changing rooms put women in danger (2018) - Read More

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• The Times: Britain’s leading equalities watchdog has been urged to scrutinise the appointment of a trans identified male as head of a Scottish rape crisis centre (2022) - Read More

• The Times: Mridul Wadhwa, rape crisis boss, under fire over challenge to ‘bigot’ victims (2021) - Read More

• The Daily Mail: Rape victim is forced to quit therapy because she feels threatened by 6ft trans identified male in men's clothes who, a woke charity insists, has as much right to be there as her (2021) - Read More

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