List of council-funded women-only swimming sessions
Dear St Helens Metropolitan Borough Council,
1. Please list all council-funded public swimming pools that provide 'women only' or 'ladies only' (or similarly described) swimming sessions in your local authority.
2. Which of the listed facilities that advertise 'women only' or 'ladies only' (or similarly described) swimming sessions, provide an environment that is exclusively single sex, i.e., for females only, and which facilities provide a session that is mixed sex, i.e., do not exclude males who identify as a woman?
3. Please send me a copy of the council policy or policies that cover the provision of 'women only' or 'ladies only' (or similarly described) swimming sessions.
4. Please tell me, do the council-funded leisure centres and sports facilities provide single sex changing rooms and showers in your local authority?
Yours faithfully,
Rebecca West
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Dear Rebecca
• We do not operate and single sex sessions (male or female) in our
pools so there is no policy for them .
• We would not exclude males who identify as a woman under any
circumstances.
• We provide village changing rooms at both pools in Queens Park and
Newton which have private cubicles for all users. These are not
designated in any way by gender.
• We have open shower facilities on poolside and in the village changing
rooms but private shower facilities are also available.
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Director of Communities
St Helens Council
Town Hall
Victoria Square
WA101HP
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