A five-year-old girl suffered ‘indirect discrimination’ when she was forced to use unisex toilets at school, a judge has ruled.
The pupil, identified as C, would regularly go home in pain after refusing to relieve herself in the Scottish primary school’s toilets because the boys were ‘too noisy’.
Both genders could access the main toilet areas, although boys were not permitted to enter cubicles with a female sign on them, and vice-versa.
The girl’s parents brought a claim against West Lothian Council over the facilities after complaining that the school did not provide single-sex toilets.
A judge has this week ruled that the toilet
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