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Supreme Court ruling: Update on practical implications for staff, students and visitors to campus accessing toilet facilities

Following the UK Supreme Court ruling that in the Equality Act 2010 ‘sex’ means biological sex and as such, workplaces need to provide single sex toilet facilities. The EHRC has provided interim guidance that organisations should continue to adhere to the Equality Act 2010 and ensure protection for all protected characteristics, including trans and non-binary people.

Where possible, organisations should provide gender neutral toilet facilities in addition to sufficient single-sex facilities. 

In response to the ruling and related guidance, we have advised that members of our community on both the London and Loughborough campuses continue to use toilet facilities as before until further notice. The University already has a significant number of accessible, gender-neutral toilets, and work is taking place to explicitly designate additional inclusive toilets across campus marked with the ‘inclusive’ sign below.  

Photo of a grey inclusive toilet sign on a wooden door, showing it is gender inclusive and suitable for those with disabilities

These toilets will be both gender neutral and accessible for disabled people, including people with disabilities that are not visible. Please be considerate of people who may need to access toilet facilities urgently. 

The work to designate toilet provision will take place over the coming weeks. Once completed, we will review the provision ensuring that the location of inclusive toilets is included on the Loughborough University AccessAble App and Accessibility Guide so that students, staff and visitors to campus can check the location of ‘inclusive’ toilets while travelling around campus. 

While this work takes place, please continue to be respectful to other users. There will be further updates as the work progresses. 

If you have any comments or queries about these changes at any stage, please contact EDI Services via EDI Edi@lboro.ac.uk 

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