Students Stage Protests Against Unisex Toilets
Grantham Journal wrote that it had received multiple calls from parents and pupils about unisex toilets at local schools, and the newspaper cited "bullying issues" as a central complaint.
Reportedly, female students have said boys unlock the doors while girls are using the toilets or try to take photographs.Some people are saying TikTok is partially to blame for the spread of the protests, including Principal Jess Leonard, of Grantham's Walton Academy."Towards the end of last week we became aware of a new trend on the social media platform TikTok.
Today, some of our students joined this protest on the academy site, along with other young people across the country," Leonard said in part in a statement to the Grantham Journal.A video posted on TikTok of Southhampton's Weston Secondary School's protest shows a large group of students chanting "toilet rights" while marching on the facility's grounds as some pupils made obscene hand gestures.
In other TikTok clips of similar protests at other schools, students are seen scaling fences, overturning chairs and stomping on school books.The protests have varied in size.
