BOGGED DOWN Girls ‘too scared’ to use unisex school toilets amid fears of ‘period shaming and sex harassment’
The row follows the opening of mixed toilets at a school in Port Talbot 'to prevent bullying'
By Phoebe Cooke
17th February 2019, 8:19 pm
Updated: 18th February 2019, 12:17 pm
GIRLS are "too scared" to use unisex school toilets amid fears of "period shaming and sexual harassment", a women's charity has claimed.
Women's Voice Wales has expressed concern that separate male and female toilets are increasingly being replaced with unisex toilets in some schools in Wales.
Unisex toilets are on the rise in the UK... and not everyone's happy about it
"What we’ve heard so far ranges from girls not drinking water during the day so they can avoid using the toilets, to ‘period shaming’ from boys," the charity wrote on its Facebook page.
"Anxiety about coping with menstruation in schools has a serious effect on female pupils, including refusing to attend school.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/8447911/girls-unisex-harassment-women-toilets-period/