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Media Articles – School ‘gender neutral’ toilets

Parents anger over ‘gender neutral’ toilets in primary school – The Herald 22/08/18

Letters: Irresponsible Scaremongering on gender-neutral toilets in Scottish Schools: James Morton – The Herald 23/08/18

Primary parents’ fury over unisex toilets – The Northern Times 07/12/18

Women’s campaign group calls for ‘urgent’ investigation into gender neutral toilets at Tayside schools The Courier 12/02/19

‘Gender-blind’ rules urged in row over school toilets – The Times 13/02/19

Campaigner writes open letter to East Renfrewshire Council over gender neutral toilets – Glasgow South Extra 14/02/19

Pupils are missing school because they don’t like mixed sex toilets and ‘period shaming’ is one of the main issues – Wales Online 15/02/19

Little room for debate: So what are gender-free toilets, do we need them and should our schools have them? – Sunday Post 17/2/19

Pupils at new Aberdeen school to be quizzed on unisex toilets – Evening Express 19/03/19

Unisex toilets at new £47m Scots school could be removed over privacy fears – The Scotsman 19/03/19

Parents angry at primary school’s plans for ‘gender neutral toilets’ – The Argus 10/04/19

Lochside Academy’s head teacher quizzed over ‘damaging’ social media claims about pupils’ behaviour – Evening Express 20/04/19

Mixed sex loos in Scottish schools break regulations, warn campaigners – The Scotsman 01/09/19

Mixed-gender toilets have ‘negative impact on girls’ – Tes Scotland 06/09/19

Are unisex toilets a good or bad idea in Milton Keynes secondary schools? – MKCitizen 15/11/19

Researcher rubbishes council claims of ‘zero’ complaints over mixed-gender loos in Dundee schools – Evening Telegraph 04/01/20

Swanmore College sparks outrage over gender neutral toilets – Hampshire Chronical 20/08/20

Mixed toilets to be considered for Musselburgh Grammar School refurbishment – East Lothian Courier 17/03/21

Unisex toilets at Musselburgh Grammar School will ‘reduce bullying, fear and mental anguish’ – East Lothian Courier 26/03/21

Parents and pupils raise concerns over lack of alternative to unisex toilets at Culloden Academy in Inverness, and want Highland Council to reconsider and provide single-sex toilets – Inverness Courier 20/08/21

POLL: Do you think unisex toilets, with no alternative, in schools are appropriate? Parents and pupils raise concerns over lack of alternative to unisex toilets at Culloden Academy in Inverness – Inverness Courier 20/8/21

U-BEND: Highland Council say unisex toilets will now be changed to male and female after backlash from parents and pupils at Culloden Academy in Inverness – Inverness Courier 20/08/21

POLL UPDATE: Plan for unisex-only toilets in a Highland school is rejected in our reader poll, with 94% of voters saying that it was unacceptable to force children to use them at premises such as Culloden Academy in Inverness – Inverness Courier 23/8/21

Primary school backlash after parents complain over gender-neutral toilets – Wales Online 11/09/21

Primary school forced into U-turn over gender-neutral toilets after parent backlash – Swindon Advertiser 13/09/21

Herts and Essex High School’s decision to remove toilet doors slammed – Bishop’s Stortford Independent 22/11/21

Councillors hear of claims that boys at Jedburgh Grammar Campus ‘waved sanitary products like flags’ – Southern Reporter 25/11/21

Schoolgirls rejecting mixed toilets over boys’ bad behaviour – The Times 26/11/21

Jedburgh pupils ‘waving sanitary products like flags’, meeting hears – Border Telegraph 01/12/21

The problem with gender-neutral loos – The Telegraph 06/12/21

Media Articles – Other

The National Campaigners welcome plans to make it easier for transgender people to change sex on birth certificates (24/7/17)

The National Women must not be silenced in the debate on gender identity – Shona Craven (19/1/18)

The National Only good-faith debate can break the impasse on gender identity – Vonny Leclrec (19/2/18)

The National Feminist organisations back trans equality despite the rhetoric of a vocal minority – James Morton (23/1/18)

The National Why plans to change our gender identity laws must be prison-proof – Shona Craven (23/2/18)

The Guardian A woman on Wednesdays? That’s just not how trans self-declaration works – James Morton (23/5/18)

The Herald: Schools forget girls in a rush to adopt pro-trans policies (24/6/18)

The Scotsman: Girls ‘negatively affected’ by new rules on transgender school pupils (25/6/18)

BBC News Scotland: How should schools support transgender pupils? (25/6/18)

Unisex Changing Rooms put women at danger of sexual assault, data reveals – The Independent 02/09/18

Scottish Review: SR Investigation The Sexual Harassment of girls in Scottish Schools is a common occurrence (17/9/18)

The Scotsman Male transgender prisoners ‘pose a danger’ to women in Scottish jails (12/9/18)

The National Gender Recognition Act debate is being used to roll back trans rights – Stephen Paton (19/10/18)

The Herald Focus on the facts when debating Gender Recognition Act – James Morton (20/10/18)

The Times: Majority opt for self-declaring gender in government consultation (24/11/18)

The Scotsman: Scotland set to be first country in UK to recognise third gender (24/11/18)

The Times: Feminists fight against gender choice on census (4/12/18)

The Times: Gender Recognition (29/1/19)

The Times: Women ‘need more say’ on gender reform (29/1/19)

The Times: Top civil servant’s tweet leads to accusations of pro‑trans bias (6/2/19)

The Herald: Legal bid to allow Scots to choose sex in census will be rejected (7/2/19)

The Times: Gender-neutral toilets open in government offices (7/2/19)

The Times: Government funding ‘biased to trans activists’ (11/2/19)

The Herald: ‘Cross-dressing males’ to be allowed in women-only gym sessions in Glasgow (22/4/19)

The Herald: Female rights must be respected (22/4/19)

The Daily Record: Row erupts as cross-dressing men get to use female changing rooms in Glasgow sports facilities (22/4/19)

The Times: Cross dresser rule for changing rooms ‘alarming’ (23/4/19)

The Scotsman Transgender rights at risk of regressing to exclusion of 1980s – Vic Valentine (7/5/19)

The Scotsman: Women join forces to defend ‘threatened’ rights (9/6/19)

The Scotsman: Why Queen Elizabeth deserves to be the UK’s matriarch (28/12/19)

Scottish Sun: SNP spark outrage citing academic’s ‘offensive’ remarks likening trans women’s bodies to mastectomy patients (08/01/20)

Scottish Sun: SNP ministers enrage breast cancer patients after using expert who made ‘offensive’ remarks about mastectomies (08/01/20)

Boy ‘took photos’ of girls in Newmarket Leisure Centre changing room – Suffolk News 07/12/21