Badenoch claims girls developed UTIs due to lack of single-sex toilets at school

Equalities minister claims female pupils didn’t want to use gender-neutral toilets, and calls for people to report institutions

Kemi Badenoch has claimed that girls at a school who did not have access to single-sex toilets developed urinary tract infections because they did not want to use gender-neutral toilets.

The equalities minister has launched a call for input, asking people to report public bodies that fail to provide single-sex spaces, or have policies not in accordance with the Equalities Act.