“TransLucent condemns Barclay’s trans woman toilet ban.
Barclays Bank have announced that they will be banning trans women employees from using women’s toilets.
TransLucent strongly condemns this decision as this will likely make it impossible for trans women (and presumably trans men and non-binary people) to remain employed by the bank at all.
Barclays bank’s previous policy enabled trans men, women and non-binary employees to use the toilets they needed. This policy was in place for years with no reported issues.
This reversal will mean that trans women employees may not be able to use any toilet at their workplace. This will cause incredible amounts of anxiety for trans women employees over whether they can even continue to work for the bank.
The policy change comes from a Supreme Court decision earlier this month that essentially destroyed twenty years of equality protections for trans people in a case that heard from no trans people at all.
Barclays have not clarified how this will affect trans men or non-binary employees.
Like so many of these decisions post the Supreme Court judgement, their needs and existence are not being considered at all.
Translucent encourages all transgender and non-binary staff to contact their union representative as soon as possible.”
