All eight Reykjavík City swimming pools receive Rainbow Certification
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![Interior of Sundhöll Reykjavíkur. Image shows the large pool with the high diving board on the far right. Prominently displayed in the foreground are the city flag and a larger flag, the rainbow flag (old version)](/sites/default/files/styles/landscape_small/public/2025-01/regnbogavottun.jpg?h=4521fff0&itok=jMmpapVa)
All eight Reykjavík swimming pools have received Rainbow Certification. Rainbow Certification aims to make Reykjavík City operations more LGBT+ friendly for staff and service users, preventing direct and indirect discrimination against LGBT+ people.
The process involves:
- Workplace questionnaire.
- LGBT+ awareness training for all staff.
- Assessment of the work environment, published materials and other relevant aspects.
- Staff creates an LGBT+ action plan, updated and submitted annually.
- Logo and poster (when a workplace achieves Rainbow Certification) and feedback.
Private changing rooms are now available in seven of eight pools, with plans to add one in Klébergslaug. The goal is to have private changing rooms in all swimming pools.
Private changing rooms are specifically intended to welcome transgender people (and children), including non-binary and intersex people (and children), parents of children with disabilities and children who need special assistance and are of a different sex, persons with disabilities with a helper of a different sex, children who assist parents who are of a different sex, and people with health problems, such as people with stomas.
The Reykjavík City website provides detailed accessibility information for each pool and videos showing access to private changing rooms.
More about Rainbow Certification.