[Niamh.]

Students at schools across England have been protesting their institutions' unisex restrooms in recent days, and footage posted on social media shows some of the protests have become unruly.

Local media outlets in the United Kingdom reported children in Southampton, Essex, Blackpool, Yorkshire and other cities have all participated in the demonstrations over gender-neutral restrooms.

The Grantham Journal wrote that it had received multiple calls from parents and pupils about unisex toilets at local schools, and the newspaper cited "bullying issues" as a central complaint. Reportedly, female students have said boys unlock the doors while girls are using the toilets or try to take photographs.


Students at schools across England have been protesting their institutions' unisex restrooms in recent days, and footage posted on social media shows some of the protests have become unruly.

Local media outlets in the United Kingdom reported children in Southampton, Essex, Blackpool, Yorkshire and other cities have all participated in the demonstrations over gender-neutral restrooms.

The Grantham Journal wrote that it had received multiple calls from parents and pupils about unisex toilets at local schools, and the newspaper cited "bullying issues" as a central complaint. Reportedly, female students have said boys unlock the doors while girls are using the toilets or try to take photographs.



Some people are saying TikTok is partially to blame for the spread of the protests, including Principal Jess Leonard, of Grantham's Walton Academy.

"Towards the end of last week we became aware of a new trend on the social media platform TikTok. Today, some of our students joined this protest on the academy site, along with other young people across the country," Leonard said in part in a statement to the Grantham Journal.

Along with expressing dissatisfaction about sharing restrooms, some female students at the protests are voicing their grievances over other issues. One of the major complaints is about alleged strict school rules that leave pupils waiting for hours at a time for a break or lunchtime before they are permitted to use toilets.

There's also a matter of cleanliness. One parent told the Grantham Journal that her daughter said girls at her school were not using the restrooms at school "because they are left in a bad state by some pupils."

Principal Leonard's statement emphasized her school supports the pupils demonstrating, as long they remain peaceful.

"We fully respect the right for our students' voices to be heard, and indeed the right to protest. However, we have reminded our students that a protest should be a last resort after all other channels of communication have been exhausted," Leonard said, according to the Grantham Journal.

Despite the protests about the unisex restrooms in England, advocates for such spaces have pointed out how sex-segregated toilets can cause difficulties for transgender and gender-nonconforming students.

GLSEN (formerly the Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network), an American education organization that focuses on LGBTQ issues for K-12 students, posted on its blog that its research found "nearly two thirds of transgender students avoid school bathrooms because of feeling unsafe or uncomfortable."

"Feeling unsafe, uncomfortable, and at risk of illegal disciplinary action, these students might 'hold it' or restrict intake of fluids, risking pain and dehydration," GLSEN wrote. "Some of these students even leave school altogether. These outcomes are not positive in any way, for any one."

Walton Academy declined to comment for this story.

https://www.newsweek.com/students-st...oilets-1784523

***Just regarding the last paragraph, it's fine if girls feel that way though due to boys being in their toilets?

[LeatherTrumpet]

Yes I have seen some vids on tiktok of kids breaking into schools

unisex toilets are disgusting

poor kids - victims of woke teachers

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

Yes I have seen some vids on tiktok of kids breaking into schools

unisex toilets are disgusting

poor kids - victims of woke teachers

I would have been horrified to have had to share school bathrooms with the boys in my School as a teenager. It's a terrible thing to ask the girls to do.

[arista]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

I would have been horrified to have had to share school bathrooms with the boys in my School as a teenager. It's a terrible thing to ask the girls to do.

Yes it is very wrong

[LeatherTrumpet]

pandering to a screaming tiny minority and making all girls suffer

what a solution

[Cherie]

oh deary me I thought the younger generation would make everything better.


My boys would never poo at school because of the state of the boys toilets, they were glad they could stand up to pee..... and they wouldn't be particularly house proud so it must have been bad

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Cherie

oh deary me I thought the younger generation would make everything better.


My boys would never poo at school because of the state of the boys toilets, they were glad they could stand up to pee..... and they wouldn't be particularly house proud so it must have been bad

Yeah Luke is the same, he avoids the toilets in school as much as is possible. It's very unfair to inflict that on girls who don't ruin the toilets and really need to use them at certain times, imagine how awful it would be as well having to sort yourself out at that time of the month knowing teenage boys are right outside your not very secure or private cubicle door.

[rusticgal]

Im glad they are protesting. Its wrong to force unisex toilets onto young people going through a stage of their life when they are developing and understanding their bodies and the change in them.

[Liam-]

Actually don’t believe in unisex toilets in schools below university, everybody in that age group deserves to have privacy in that stage of life, yes, that actually includes the boys too surprisingly to some

[GoldHeart]

Why the hell did they think unisex toilets would be a good idea , Insane ..... especially at that age aswell.

[Zizu]

Utter madness .. the world is going crazier by the day


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[LeatherTrumpet]

So let me get this straight you can have a 4 foot 10 13 year old girl go into a toilet and inside she is met with a group of shouting and laughing 6 foot 4 16 year old boys?

please tell me that does not happen?

[Zizu]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

So let me get this straight you can have a 4 foot 10 13 year old girl go into a toilet and inside she is met with a group of shouting and laughing 6 foot 4 16 year old boys?

please tell me that does not happen?

Plus teenage lads don’t behave respectfully towards girls like we did back in the day …


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[parmnion]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

So let me get this straight you can have a 4 foot 10 13 year old girl go into a toilet and inside she is met with a group of shouting and laughing 6 foot 4 16 year old boys?

please tell me that does not happen?

Does here.

[Cherie]

Furious parents slammed a school for replacing mirrors in a toilet block with posters saying make-up is a "harmful drug". Three notices were temporarily put in place of mirrors in a girls' lavatory.

One read: "If all girls started wearing no make-up and comfortable clothes, guys would have no choice but to fall for girls because of natural beauty."

Another said: "Beauty is nothing without brains". A third warned: "Dear girls, make-up is a harmful drug. Once you start using it, you'll feel ugly without it."

One parent said of the move at Christopher Whitehead Language College in Worcester: "Is the school really telling girls that putting lipstick on is as bad as injecting heroin or taking crack cocaine?

"Yes, girls need to be taught about inner beauty, but this approach is plain wrong."

Another asked why the posters were only in the girls' lavatory block.

They said: "Parents were not consulted about this change. It's our job to teach these values to our children rather than have this propaganda shoved in their faces every time they go to the bathroom.

"And why are these posters only in the girls' toilets and not in the boys' toilets, too?"


https://www.msn.com/en-gb/lifestyle/...d540d782&ei=99

[bitontheslide]

the education system seems to be like the wild west at the moment

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Cherie

Furious parents slammed a school for replacing mirrors in a toilet block with posters saying make-up is a "harmful drug". Three notices were temporarily put in place of mirrors in a girls' lavatory.

One read: "If all girls started wearing no make-up and comfortable clothes, guys would have no choice but to fall for girls because of natural beauty."

Another said: "Beauty is nothing without brains". A third warned: "Dear girls, make-up is a harmful drug. Once you start using it, you'll feel ugly without it."

One parent said of the move at Christopher Whitehead Language College in Worcester: "Is the school really telling girls that putting lipstick on is as bad as injecting heroin or taking crack cocaine?

"Yes, girls need to be taught about inner beauty, but this approach is plain wrong."

Another asked why the posters were only in the girls' lavatory block.

They said: "Parents were not consulted about this change. It's our job to teach these values to our children rather than have this propaganda shoved in their faces every time they go to the bathroom.

"And why are these posters only in the girls' toilets and not in the boys' toilets, too?"


https://www.msn.com/en-gb/lifestyle/...d540d782&ei=99

****s sake. Always women and girls being told what to wear, what not to wear, what makes them look pretty etc so ****ing annoying and patronising