Equalities minister Kemi Badenoch says girls at a school developed urinary tract infections because they did not want to use gender-neutral toilets [Video]

Girls have developed urinary tract infections because they did not want to use their school’s gender-neutral toilets, the Equalities Minister said.

Kemi Badenoch said it was ‘terrible’ to learn that pupils had come down with infections, despite the unnamed school believing they were ‘following the guidance’.

Mrs Badenoch revealed the case when making a ‘call for input’ from the public, inviting submissions to the Government of examples where institutions are potentially breaching the Equality Act by failing to provide single-sex spaces. 

In remarks to LBC, she said: ‘We are looking for examples where a public institution is either issuing guidance or has a policy that is not in accordance with the Equality Act when it comes to single sex spaces.