Understand the LGBTQIA+ News: Download Festival Backlash After Ban on Trans+ People From Single-Sex Toilets

EYNTK about the Download Festival toilet controversy

The alternative rock festival has now said it will provide gender-neutral bathrooms in the majority, following outrage caused by its initial statement that it would follow EHRC interim guidance. WORDS BY KATIE BASKERVILLE HEADER IMAGE BY UNSPLASH – JULIEN MACULAN Going for a piss in a port-a-loo shouldn’t be a radical act, especially not when caked in mud and in your best wellie boots, but here we are. It’s 2025 and on the 27th of May, Download …

Understand the LGBTQIA+ news: Download festival backlash after ban on Trans+ people from single-sex toilets

This Pride month is going to feel different. This Pride season is going to be charged with a palpable anger, passion and vigour that is unparalleled to recent years.It will be driven not just by a Supreme Court decision that is being used to segregate Trans+ people in an apartheid move we haven't seen since the end of racial segregation. Instead, it will represent - as Freddy O'Connell set out for us during Trans+ History Week - a response to ov…