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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Libby Brooks Scotland correspondent

Scottish government says schools must have separate toilets for boys and girls

Row of toilet cubicles with open bright yellow doors and white toilets without lids; the floor and back wall are grey tiles with some yellow, blue and red tiles at intervals.
The Scottish government reissued the guidance for primary and secondary schools after what gender-critical campaigners described as “intolerable” delays. Photograph: ChiccoDodiFC/Shutterstock

Schools must provide separate toilets and changing rooms for boys and girls to be used on the basis of a pupil’s biological sex, the Scottish government has said in updated guidance.

Transgender pupils can no longer use “the facilities they feel most comfortable with”, as was previously the case, but schools were encouraged to offer gender-neutral facilities or access to disabled and staff toilets for the relatively small number of children affected.

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