Five U.K. teenage girls have written to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, urging him to keep single-sex toilets in schools for girls’ safety and dignity. The Mail has the story.
In an open letter, the students – who are aged between 13 and 15 – called on Rishi Sunak to tackle the issue head on when the Government issues its long-awaited transgender guidance to schools.
The girls – who used only their first names to sign their letter for fear of a backlash from trans activists – said single-sex facilities were an “essential safeguarding feature” of schools.
But they warned that many schools had started introducing mixed toilets without consultation to appease transgender and Left-wing activists.
The five pupils, who identified themselves as Cynthia, Marilyn, Sonja, Olivia and Ellie, said many female pupils found mixed-sex toilets “intimidating, humiliating and downright dangerous”.
They called on Mr. Sunak, who is a father of two daughters, to uphold their rights.
“There is no justifiable reason to introduce dangerous and uncomfortable spaces into schools, and the Government has a duty to ensure that toilets in schools are safe and dignified,” they wrote.
The letter warns that in “many schools, girls are so uncomfortable with having to use the toilets there that they simply don’t go at school, risking a urinary tract infection”. They decided to write to Mr. Sunak after almost 12,000 people signed an online petition launched by one of the girls calling for single-sex spaces to be protected in schools.
The letter cites a school in Southampton where there were recent protests against the introduction of ‘gender-neutral’ toilets amid claims that boys were photographing girls in the gaps above or below toilet cubicles.
A teenage boy was arrested after police investigated reports that a number of girls were being sexually assaulted in mixed-sex toilets at another school in Essex.
The girls said being forced to share toilets with boys was unpleasant for female students who were menstruating, adding: “Girls must have private spaces where we can sort this out with dignity, away from potential shaming from boys and the humiliation of having everyone know you’re on your period.”
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From Powerhouse to budding Basket Case in a single generation since the Fall of the Wall. Not for nothing was Mutti educated at Karl Marx University Leipzig.
End of History merely end of the beginning. Fool those dolts in the West they’ve won, disappear into forest and reappear in Schwarzwald under cover of party with suitable three-letter acronym. Easy peasy. Plenty of Greenery for camouflage.
Also not for nothing AfD heartland in the old East, where they know which side their bread was not buttered on. West’s luxury believers’ luxuries feeling the squeeze. Electric Trabbies here you come.
Yes, Die Gruenen were always the communists, while conning liberal environmentalists. To smash capitalism you attack cheap energy! It was openly said at the time but our media were fellow travellers or dumb Guardian or Der Spiegel readers.
Very interesting.
Desperate leaders have been known to persist on a self defeating, destructive course, preferring to see everything around them be destroyed before giving up.
I suppose that is one of the saving graces of electoral democracies. They are a mechanism for short circuiting obvious catastrophes. Seems like the mechanism has broken down in Germany, and not for the first time. And once again because of what seems like ideological fanaticism.
Oh well.
At the risk of being accused of victim blaming, why did anyone vote CDU/CSU and expect anything different? Likewise those who voted Tory here.
I’ve thought about this quite a bit and cone to the conclusion that many people don’t see the world isn’t the place it used to be. They’re stuck in ideas about their parties and institutions that are outdated and so they are voting for something that doesn’t exist any more.
I was certainly guilty of that. I started smelling a rat during Trump 1.0 and Brexit, and “covid” put the old tin lid on it for me.
I think it’s also true to say that the political consensus has shifted ever leftwards. A lot of people are dissatisfied with politics and “the system” but their preferred solution is not Less Government but More Government – more of the sort that they approve of, politicians who can perform miracles etc. Even on issues like immigration, where the political elites have got away for a long time with ignoring the wishes of the majority, that majority is probably not overwhelming. I view the Brexit result as in large part a referendum on immigration, and it was pretty close. Probably more people want to stop illegal immigration, but not as many are prepared to see the kind of harsh, decisive measures that would actually achieve that.
The BBC put out some information, after the weather forecast, about the changing climate, in the Autumn of 2001.
Was it information, or was it a warning?
No, it was a threat.
And, ever since then, I’ve seen the sheep, grazing on BBC propaganda, even when I explain the Windmill Problem: commonly called the cubic law of fluid flow. If the wind speed doubles, the power increases by a factor of eight. If it decreases to a third, power decreases to 1/27, which is less than 4%.
I didn’t know that about “fluid flow”. As I write, we’re getting more electricity from Nuclear France than we are from our world-beating windmills.
I think what you are trying to say is that the majority of people are ignorant especially if they rely on the legacy media for their information. And many prefer to be ignorant which is fine but then they are allowed to vote in elections.
Absolutely. It’s incomprehensible.
Endless Tax – Repression – No Freedom
Germany is just a single example within the overall scheme: Europe is economically, culturally and spiritually bankrupt.
Increasing debt, struggling economy, mass migration, low birth rates, insane policies and a general lack of ideas about what to do.
Something broke, exactly I don’t know when, but I would put it round the start of the First World War.
20 million dead, then communism, nazism, another world war, 50 million dead.
Then a brief respite with several major crises and now this. Brain dead politicians, conmen, ideologues, struggling economy, increasing lawlessness, incompetent and menacing police, trans-nonsense, LGBT, child abuse on an industrial scale, woke cults.
Everybody knows this can’t go on but still carry on.
“Something broke… I would put it round the start of the First World War.”
European mass insanity with no winners – start of British and French decline, Germany lost territory and global scientific and technical primacy, Russia fell to communism, Austro-Hungarian empire broken up (which might have happened anyway sooner or later).
Failure of 1914 ruling-class diplomacy to keep the lights from “going out all over Europe”, instead getting mired in The War To End All Wars. Scene set for Round Two 20 years later and 40 years of Iron Curtain after that.
European wanton self-destruction and immolation.
Nasty thing to say, but I will not shed any tears for Muttiland, and I know lots here and in Europe who won’t either (of this and previous generations).
F*** me. What a catastrophic mess.
It gives me no pleasure to say that some of us saw UK and EU politics, especially the green and mass illegal immigration issues, turning into this tragedy 15-20 years ago and moved abroad.
It was a good decision backed up during a visit to the UK last September where I decided I won’t be going back again.
Barring a most unlikely miracle the EU is finished because leadership and determination is nowhere to be seen.
It’s also quite obvious that Trump, the VP and the rest of Trump’s team, see Europe in exactly this light and saw the USA heading that way under Biden. Hence, the only way forward for the USA is to pull up the draw bridges and look after itself.
The photo that accompanies this article sums up the utterly pathetic leadership that prevails.
I often thought Germany would be the sensible place, and possibly a sanctuary as Western European gradually merges into the Middle East and Africa. Das war aber falsch.
Will the last true German blow out the candle before leaving.
And in other breaking news on fascism in Europe, a French court has found Marine Le Pen guilty so they can now move to stop her standing in elections. As JD correctly pointed out – the enemy of the people in Europe is their own elite.