The Single and Separate Sex Exceptions in the Equality Act 2010 are the bit of UK law which allows single sex services. They are tucked away in Schedule 3, Part 7, Paragraphs 26 and 27 and it is sometimes said they are ‘rarely used’, or that service providers have to choose to use them in exceptional circumstances. This is a myth and a misunderstanding.
Single sex spaces, such as women’s and men’s changing rooms, toilets, dormitories, hospital wards, and women’s refuges are not mountains or rivers to be explored. They are created through plans, policies and rules – you create a single sex space by having a policy that a service is only open to people of one sex (and in some cases their accompanying small children). In other word you discriminate. You communicate that discriminatory policy with words and signs.
When you do that you are using the single…
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