Welsh parliament offers tampons and pads next in men's toilets
Welsh parliament offers tampons and pads next to urinals in men’s toilets
- The products that are provided are free of charge for all those that need them
- Cardiff’s Senedd also has gender-neutral lavatories and shower facilities
The Welsh parliament has been accused of wasting public money after it put women’s sanitary products in men’s toilets.
Tampons and pads have been placed by the urinals in all male lavatories at the Senedd, for the benefit of transgender staff.
Signs at the building in Cardiff state: ‘These products are provided free of charge for all those that need them, following negotiation on your behalf by the Senedd Commission Trade Union Side.’
A spokesman for the Senedd, which also has gender-neutral lavatories and shower facilities, told the Daily Telegraph it had ‘made period products available across our estate’.
But Welsh Conservative member Tom Giffard said: ‘It’s shocking that the Senedd can’t figure out the difference between a man and a woman.’ And women’s rights campaigner Helen Joyce said: ‘Can you think of a bigger money-waster?’
Tampons and pads have been placed by the urinals in all male lavatories at the Senedd in Cardiff
‘They will be getting messed around, not used, or men will take them home for their wives and daughters and why shouldn’t they?’
It comes after the Labour-controlled Welsh government said it wanted to make it easier for people to legally change sex despite controversy over Scotland’s self-ID plan.
The administration wants Whitehall to hand it the power to change the law on gender recognition, and also to let people state they are non-binary on passports and driving licences.
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