Hutt City Council
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Q1: Do you provide communal single-sex changing and showering facilities?
All Council-operated aquatic facilities provide communal single-sex (male and female) changing rooms/shower areas.
Q2: Do you provide single occupancy changing and showering facilities? If so, how many at each site?
Stokes Valley Pool
1 male changing room (2 toilets, 2 showers, 1 changing cubicle), 1 female changing room (2 toilets, 2 showers, 3 changing cubicles), and 3 family or accessible changing rooms. All three have a toilet and a shower, and one room also includes an accessible changing table and a baby changing table.
Te Ngāengae Pool – 1 male changing room (4 toilets, 4 showers, 4 changing cubicles, 3 urinals), 1 female changing room (4 toilets, 4 showers, 4 changing cubicles), 9 family changing rooms (4 have showers and 5 are changing‑only), and 7 accessible changing rooms located in the gym and poolside areas. All accessible changing rooms have a toilet and a shower.
Huia Pool – 1 male changing room (0 toilets, 2 showers, 4 changing cubicles), 1 female changing room (0 toilets, 4 showers, 4 changing cubicles), 1 male toilet area (2 toilets, 1 urinal, 3 showers), 1 female toilet area (3 toilets, 3 showers), 4 family changing cubicles (no toilets or showers), 4 accessible changing rooms (each with a toilet and shower), 12 individual changing cubicles in the hydro or learn-to-swim area, and 3 individual toilets.
Wainuiomata Pool – 2 male changing rooms (2 toilets and 2 showers in each), 2 female changing rooms (2 toilets and 2 showers in each), and 1 family or accessible changing room with a toilet and shower.
Eastbourne Pool – 1 male changing room (1 toilet plus a urinal, 4 showers), 1 female changing room (2 toilets, 4 showers), and 1 family or accessible changing room with a toilet and shower.
McKenzie Baths – 1 male changing room (3 toilets, 3 urinals, 3 showers), and 1 female changing room (5 toilets, 3 showers).
Q3: Please provide any policies or procedures that apply to trans-identified people who wish to use the changing and showering facilities in your sites.
Council does not have any specific policies or procedures that prescribes which changing or showering facilities must be used by particular groups, including trans-identifying people.
Council provides a range of changing and showering facilities across its sites, which are available for community use.
Q4: How are your different changing and showering facilities labelled and described?
Changing and showering facilities at Council sites are labelled to indicate the type of space available, such as male, female, family/whānau, or accessible changing rooms.
Q5: At your sites, which changing room and showering facilities is a trans-identified male permitted to use?
Council does not have any specific policies or procedures that prescribes which changing or showering facilities must be used by particular groups, including trans-identifying people.
Council provides a range of changing and showering facilities across its sites, which are available for community use.
Q6: If applicable, do your facilities allow trans-identifying males to attend Women Only swim sessions?
In relation to women-only swim sessions, Council does not hold a Council-wide policy governing attendance by trans-identifying people. Where sessions for women are offered, these are established and managed at an operational level based on the needs of the local community. Council does not hold information identifying session participants by gender identity.
Our Verdict
No policy means no protection and no certainty for women using these facilities. Hutt City has some of the clearest Male / Female signage around - including a note in the female changing room stating that males over the age of six are not permitted. Yet they can't bring themselves to have a policy that matches their signs. They do have a great tool for reporting a problem - https://www.huttcity.govt.nz/people-and-communities/community-safety/report-a-problem
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