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Building regulations will be changed later this year to make it compulsory to
provide separate facilities for men and women



The law will apply to new non-residential buildings, but existing businesses
could also be caught by the rules if they undergo major renovations.

It has recently become popular for restaurants, bars and other commercial
spaces to provide gender-neutral lavatories rather than different facilities for
women and men, but ministers said single-sex provision is necessary to
alleviate safety, privacy and dignity concerns.

Writing for The Telegraph, Lee Rowley, the housing minister, said the
Government wanted to challenge activists who have promoted gender-neutral
facilities and support “what most people thought was common sense”.

Kemi Badenoch, the women and equalities minister, said: “These regulations
will guide organisations to design unisex and single-sex toilets, ending the
rise of so-called ‘gender-neutral’ mixed sex toilet spaces, which deny privacy
and dignity to both men and women.

“Today’s announcement will also create better provision for women so that
our particular biological, health and sanitary needs are met.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics...ulations-tory/