The petition, created by Camille Brown first launched on September 30 and has since gained more than 100 signatures.
Camille, a student at University College London, explains that she created the petition to help do something about the “anxiety and stress” women feel daily on the Tube,
Talking to News Shopper, she said: “Women are not treated equally; this is no shocking statement.
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“What is shocking is that whilst this inequality is widely acknowledged, little is done to modify physical and social infrastructure to alleviate it.”
Petition calls for women-only carriages
On the petition’s website , Camille shares that since the age of 11, when she started secondary school, she would use the London Underground without her parents, but said they had a ‘SAS’ system in place to ensure she made it to school safely.
Explaining that SAS amongst her family stood for ‘Safely At School’, a sign to her parents that she had made it to school without any harm.
However, on one occasion, Camille, who was 13 at the time, shared how while on the Circle Line, a man began persistently asking her to spend the day together instead of going to school, leaving her “utterly terrified”.
In August, TfL released the statistics for transport crime and antisocial behaviour between January and June 2025.
The data found that in the first six months of 2025, there were 907 sexual offences reported across TfL services, up from 879 in 2024.
Out of those reported incidents, 424 offences took place on the London Underground between January and June 2025, while between the same period in 2024, there were 451 reports.
Women-only carriages on public transport are already used in countries such as Brazil, India and Japan, which first introduced the system in 1912, according to Tokyo Weekender.
Camille told News Shopper that while the motivation behind the petition was to help protect women and girls, it was also to “establish a space where women feel comfortable and safe”.
Sharing: “The Underground plays a huge role in many women’s daily routines, and so transforming it into one of those few safe spaces felt like a natural and necessary step.
“Women should not be burdened with feeling vulnerable, in a state of fear and hypervigilance on their way to school or work.
“This is an enormous amount of strain women are forced to endure that is seemingly invisible to the male public and political representatives.”
Camille did acknowledge past campaigns from TfL to help tackle sexual offences on the Tube, describing them as “valuable but not preventative in the slightest”.
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Adding that the TfL measures were “too late once the victim has been traumatised and the perpetrator long gone, unidentified.”
The university student shares that she believes the idea of women-only carriages would be an “extremely viable and simple solution to implement”, calling for TfL to “seriously consider it”.
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She added: “If TfL were to reject this proposal, they would need to employ significantly more Underground staff to patrol the carriages with the specific aim of protecting women.
“That being said, this would be far more costly and, again, not necessarily an effective measure.”
TfL has been contacted for a comment.
