{"id":195991,"date":"2019-10-08T13:07:56","date_gmt":"2019-10-08T13:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=195991"},"modified":"2019-10-11T07:26:53","modified_gmt":"2019-10-11T07:26:53","slug":"doctors-call-on-schools-to-halt-move-to-gender-neutral-toilets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=195991","title":{"rendered":"Doctors Call on Schools to Halt Move To \u2018Gender-Neutral\u2019 Toilets"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Girls are skipping school to avoid sharing gender neutral toilets with boys after being left to feel unsafe and ashamed<\/h2>\n<h5 style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">-&gt; Menstruating girls are staying home for fear of being made to feel &#8216;period shame&#8217;<br \/>\n-&gt; Some girls are risking infections by refusing to urinate all day or not drinking<br \/>\n-&gt; Doctors and politicians called on schools to halt the move towards unisex toilets<\/h5>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Sanchez Manning \u2013 Mail Online Oct 7, 2019<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/transgender_promotion_in_schools.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-125781\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/transgender_promotion_in_schools-300x188.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/transgender_promotion_in_schools-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/transgender_promotion_in_schools.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Gender-neutral toilets in schools have left girls feeling unsafe and even put their health at risk, parents and teachers have warned.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Girls who are menstruating are so anxious about sharing facilities with boys that some are staying at home for fear of being made to feel &#8216;period shame&#8217;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">With a growing number of both primary and secondary schools installing unisex toilets, some girls are risking infections by refusing to urinate all day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Others are so fearful they have stopped drinking liquids at school.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Parents and teaching staff have told The Mail on Sunday that female pupils feel deeply uncomfortable or even unsafe sharing toilets with male students.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The trend for single-sex toilets is driven by the wish to be more inclusive of children who identify as transgender and wish to use the same facilities as the opposite sex.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">But last night, doctors and politicians called on schools to halt the move towards unisex toilets to prevent any further harm to female pupils.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">GP Tessa Katz said holding in urine for prolonged periods on a regular basis could increase the risk of girls suffering urinary and bladder infections.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The psychological effects of girls not feeling safe enough to use mixed-sex toilets is also concerning,&#8217; Dr Katz said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">At the same time, the rise in gender-neutral toilets has sparked a backlash among parents, many of whom say they were not consulted before the change was made at their children&#8217;s schools.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The latest row involves Deanesfield Primary School in South Ruislip, West London, where parents launched a petition last month against the introduction of unisex toilets.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-7542005\/Girls-skipping-school-avoid-sharing-gender-neutral-toilets-boys.html\">Continues \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Girls are skipping school to avoid sharing gender neutral toilets with boys after being left to feel unsafe and ashamed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Current_Affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=195991"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":195994,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195991\/revisions\/195994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=195991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=195991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=195991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}