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Do not introduce new building requirements for separate male and female toilets

Closed 495 signatures

What the petition asks

We want the Government to scrap plans to require all new non-domestic buildings to provide separate single-sex toilets for women and men and/or a self-contained, private toilet as a minimum: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-building-requirements-for-separate-male-and-female-toilets
We believe legal requirements to create single-sex toilets for women and men are unnecessary and discriminatory, and will feed into an ongoing hostile environment towards trans people and put many trans binary and nonbinary and intersex people into situations where we could face violence and hostility for being judged as using the “incorrect” toilet, and also cause trans people without accessibility needs to use accessible toilets for safety, when accessible toilets provision is already inadequate.

Timeline

22 Aug 2023 Petition opened for signatures
22 Feb 2024 Closed to new signatures

Key facts

Signatures 495
Status Closed
Opened 22 Aug 2023
Closed 22 Feb 2024

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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.