This announcement follows a referral to the Berlin office for the fight against discrimination by a woman who felt she was discriminated against compared to men who can swim bare-chested.
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Women will now be able to swim topless in swimming pools in Berlin, Germany, the German capital’s swimming pool management announced on Thursday (9 March). This announcement follows a referral to the Berlin office for the fight against discrimination by a woman who felt she was discriminated against compared to men who can swim bare-chested.
Following this referral, “Berliner Bäder-Betriebe will in future apply its house rules and bathing regulations in a gender-equal manner”announced the management in a press release. “Shirtless swimming will be possible in the future for female people or for people with female chest type”she says.
The anti-discrimination mediation service of the city of Berlin has “highly commended” of this decision. “It is now a question of applying the regulations in a concrete way and of no longer pronouncing expulsion or prohibition of access”argues its director, Doris Liebscher, in a press release.
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