Gender-neutral toilets blamed for allowing boy to secretly film hundreds of girls

A mother in Scotland has criticised gender-neutral toilets for enabling boys to obtain hundreds of indecent videos of girls.

The mother’s daughter, who attends a high school in Dundee, contacted the police after she found a hidden camera in a toilet roll holder. A 15-year-old boy has now been charged in connection with the crime.

According to Scottish Government guidance on ‘supporting transgender young people in schools’, toilets and changing rooms can be used on the basis of “social convention” rather than biological sex.

‘Ideological’

The mum, who is remaining anonymous, said: “This is something that a lot of parents have been concerned about for a number of years and since I spoke out about what happened to my daughter, loads of people have come forward and agreed that unisex toilets are a huge issue.

“This boy would simply not have had access to the girls’ toilets otherwise. I will be looking for assurances from the council that they are going to do something to make sure our children are safe before I even consider sending my daughter back to that school.”

Posting on X, Joanna Cherry KC added: “Is it too much to hope that this appalling case will sound the death knell for unisex toilets in our schools and mean a return to prioritising the dignity, safety and privacy of girls?

“The ideologues who pushed this nonsense should hang their heads in shame.”

‘Harassment’

Last year, campaign group For Women Scotland found that most Scottish secondary schools are unlawfully forcing boys and girls to share mixed-toilets.

Just 13 of the 243 secondary schools it surveyed complied with equality law on the provision of separate toilets for boys and girls.

The campaign group’s Director Trina Budge said: “Schools are breaking the law and leaving themselves open to legal action from pupils or parents, and they are also increasing the risk of the bullying and harassment of young girls by failing to provide safe single-sex spaces.”

She attributed the increase in mixed-sex toilets to the “introduction of gender ideology, which is now deeply embedded in schools and oblivious to the harms it causes children, particularly girls”.