Gender-neutral toilet 'was more favourable to men' says judge trends now

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A town council discriminated against a woman clerk with its makeshift gender-neutral toilets, a tribunal has found.

Karen Miller was told she had to put a sign on the door of the men’s lavatory when she used it. 

To get to the single cubicle she had to walk past a urinal. She even had to wait for Earl Shilton Council in Leicestershire to provide a sanitary bin.

Ms Miller won a sex discrimination claim in 2020. A council appeal has now been rejected by the Employment Appeal Tribunal. 

Judge James Tayler said Ms Miller was not provided with adequate facilities, because of the risk of coming across a man at the urinal and the lack of a sanitary bin.