The University of Warwick (UoW) has been criticised after mistakenly uploading a new proposal to their website, titled “trans inclusion code of conduct”, which would ban trans people from using their preferred toilets. UoW has been reviewing its equality policies after last month’s anti-trans Suprem
The University of Warwick (UoW) has been criticised after mistakenly uploading a new proposal to their website, titled “trans inclusion code of conduct”, which would ban trans people from using their preferred toilets.
UoW has been reviewing its equality policies after last month’s anti-trans Supreme Court ruling that women should be defined by biological sex, not gender identity. It is thought the ruling will negatively affect trans people up and down the UK.
The proposal, which has since been removed from the website, outlined that trans staff and students would not be permitted to use the toilets of the gender with which they identify, but instead should use the toilet for the sex they were assigned at birth.
It is understood the policy was due to be considered by the university’s executive board, with a view to being officially adopted on 16 May. But staff are pushing the university to U-turn, claiming the policy is transphobic.
A spokesperson for Warwick University and College Union (UCU), said they were “raging” after seeing the proposals.
“If they turned around and said, ‘we’re going to have separate bathrooms for people of a different race’, that would be absolutely not acceptable. But because, somehow, being anti-trans is socially acceptable, they just think they can get away with this.”
