"Between 2022-2024, TransLucent submitted Freedom of Information requests to major public bodies in England - including NHS hospitals, domestic violence shelters, and local authorities that maintain public restrooms and changing facilities - to see how many official complaints about trans women in women-only spaces had been documented. The investigations specifically examined "whether cisgender women patients or service users had formally objected to sharing spaces with trans women," according to the report."
""Across local authority toilets, hospital wards, and domestic abuse refuges, the evidence demonstrates that political and media rhetoric about trans women threatening women in single-sex spaces is unsupported by actual complaints," the report reads. Of 40 usable responses from authorities that maintain public toilettes and changing facilities (at public pools and leisure centers), TransLucent found no reported complaints about trans women in 2022."
TransLucent submitted Freedom of Information requests to major public bodies in England between 2022 and 2024, including NHS hospitals, domestic violence shelters, and local authorities that manage public restrooms and changing facilities. Investigations checked whether cisgender women patients or service users had formally objected to sharing spaces with trans women. Evidence from local authority toilets, hospital wards, and domestic abuse refuges shows political and media claims about trans women threatening women in single-sex spaces are unsupported by documented complaints. Of 40 usable responses from authorities managing toilets and changing facilities, none reported complaints in 2022; in 2024 only two complaints were documented by 47 authorities. FOI requests to 102 NHS foundation trusts between April 2020 and June 2022 returned no complaints from cisgender women patients, and out of 157 substantive NHS trust responses to a December 2023 survey only one reported an incident.
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