Badenoch claims girls developed UTIs due to lack of single-sex toilets at school

Kemi Badenoch did not name the school but her office pointed to a Conservative MP’s letter blaming a Walsall secondary school’s toilets for one girl’s UTI. Photograph: Thomas Krych/Rex/Shutterstock

Kemi Badenoch has claimed that girls at a school who did not have access to single-sex toilets developed urinary tract infections (UTI) because they did not want to use gender-neutral toilets.

The equalities minister has launched a call for input, asking people to report public bodies that fail to provide single-sex spaces or have policies not in accordance with the Equality Act.