New office buildings, schools, hospitals and entertainment venues in England must have separate toilets for males and females under rules that will reportedly be unveiled this week.
The amendment to building regulations, which aims to end the “forced sharing” of gender-neutral facilities, will be announced by the UK Equalities Minister Kemi Badenoch, reports The Telegraph.
The policy, first mooted back in May 2021, had previously been accused of being "transphobic" - an accusation rejected by the Secretary of State for Housing at the time, Robert Jenrick. It came after Mr Jenrick launched a review which identified concerns held by some women about the reduced privacy and longer queues resulting from gender-neutral facilities.
