The logical impossibility of giving female people privacy in single-sex spaces at the same time as allowing males to enter on demand may mean service providers give up and make all facilities formally mixed-sex. That would be to women’s detriment. Those who continue to use such facilities will be less safe. In 2018 the Sunday Times, a British newspaper, published data showing that ninety percent of cases of sexual assaults and harassment in public swimming pools occurred in the minority of changing rooms that were designated unisex.
