Five teenage lassies have written to the Prime Minister urging him to keep single-sex toilets in schools to ensure female pupils’ safety and dignity.
In an open letter, the students, who are aged between 13 and 15, called on Rishi Sunak to attack the problem head-on when the Government issues its long-awaited transgender guidance to schools.
The girls, who used just their first names to sign their letter for fear of a backlash from trans activists, said single-sex facilities were an important safeguarding feature of schools. But they warned that numerous schools had begun 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 Rishi Sunak, who’s the father of two daughters, to uphold their rights.
They said that there was no justifiable reason to introduce dangerous and uncomfortable spaces into schools, and the Government had a duty to ensure that toilets in schools were safe and dignified.
The letter warns that in many schools, girls are so uncomfortable with having to use the toilets that they just don’t go to the toilet at school, risking a urinary tract infection.
They decided to write to Rishi Sunak after nearly 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 demonstrations against the introduction of ‘gender neutral’ toilets amid assertions that boys were photoing girls in the gaps above or below toilet stalls.
A teenage boy was arrested after police investigated a report 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 that girls must have private spaces where they can sort this out with dignity, away from potential shaming from boys and the humiliation of having everyone know they’re on their period.
Cynthia, 15, said her secondary school had as many mixed-sex toilets as well as single-sex ones. She told a newspaper outlet that the mixed-sex toilets were so disgusting and unhygienic, and that very few people used them apart from the boys, so really they’re just another set of boys’ toilets.
It’s a sad time indeed when you have to appeal to a Prime Minister to keep single-sex toilets to keep young people safe, and it’s an abdication of care on an unparalleled scale to our young children and should have never happened at any price.
It’s not even about safety, although that is undoubtedly essential and should be for the protection of all, girls as well as boys, and also transgender. What it’s actually about is providing dignity and a private space for personal activity, and these mixed toilets only motivate others to corner these vulnerable girls with the goal of bullying or sexual behaviour on their minds.
Young girls shouldn’t have to beg for privacy and protection, and this matter shouldn’t have even seen the light of day because it shouldn’t have occurred, and the Government needs its head testing.
These girls are very brave indeed, they spoke their minds, and perhaps more of us should be doing that, not just about this matter, but other matters as well. The trouble is most people air their opinions behind their closed doors, screaming with frustration and anger – it’s time to come out from behind your sofas, open your front door and scream as loud as you want without persecution.
People fought much bigger wars than his, and yes, many died. People need to fight for what they believe in because we as human beings are worth more than this. I believe it’s called ‘Power to the People’, the trouble is we don’t seem to have much of that anymore.
All you people out there know what you have to do, so do it!
THE MONTHLY MOSQUITO 