Co-op scraps policy allowing trans staff to use toilets they ‘feel safest’

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• heliotrope@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Reading the article, it seems that the Co-op are trying their best, in light of the government’s shitfuckery.

  The updated policy instead says that, wherever possible, the retailer will provide individual, lockable gender-neutral facilities, with decisions about access to gendered spaces made “sensitively and on a case-by-case basis,” as reported by The Sunday Times.

  The change follows the UK Supreme Court’s April 2025 ruling on the legal meaning of “woman” and “man”, as well as new guidance from the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) stating that single-sex spaces should be provided based on biological sex.

  A spokesperson for the Co-op, which has been a vocal supporter of trans rights, said it updated the policy following legal advice and consultation with its staff networks “to ensure compliance with our legal obligations and to support our trans, non-binary and intersex colleagues”, in a statement to The Sunday Times.

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  • yakko@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That’s a lot of nuance hidden by an upsetting headline.

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    • Zedstrian@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      While the Co-op may not be transphobic itself, single occupant gender-neutral bathrooms are a solution presented by transphobes who want to continue misgendering trans men and women under the veneer of a discriminatory ‘compromise’.

      Trans people across the UK are having their rights marginalized.

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    • TRAHR@quokk.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It’s segregation unless you meet some nebulous criteria.

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  • TRAHR@quokk.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The retailer’s former CEO Shirine Khoury-Haq had told The Telegraph last May that she would “protect trans people to the end” following the Supreme Court ruling. The Co-op has since been hit by significant leadership changes, with Khoury-Haq leaving earlier this year after claims of a “toxic” culture in the workplace. Chair Debbie White also announced her resignation last Monday (10 August).

    How much of this is leadership based.

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• motionofethre@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Soooo. Why don’t we just have all gender neutral bathrooms with locking stalls?

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  • fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That’s one of the things that’s no longer allowed

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    • pega_sus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      There are toilets with sinks on the cistern, and while those cost money i think they’d be a great bandaid solution.

      Sometimes you need a workaround

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    • motionofethre@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Being a politician isn’t a protected class. How about separate bathrooms for politicians? Like outhouses

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• Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  People will see this and boycott co-op for complying (on paper) with the fascist law

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  • SatansDaughter@quokk.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Um, yes? People who comply with fascists are themselves fascist

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    • Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That’s probably the dumbest thing anyone has ever said

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• jdr@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Danger toilets for all!

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