The issue of inclusivity in public swimming pools can be one which is fraught with tension. Pool management often relies on categories of swimmers (lap, general, free, aqua aerobics, women only, adults only etc) to regulate pool access. An additional layer of regulation relates to swimwear. In France, a number of pools have issued swimwear regulation which includes a ban on full-bodied swimsuits (typically referred to by the misnomer ‘burkini’). Similar to incidents on French beaches in 2016, this tension has now moved to swimming pools. While trying to view the incidents from multiple perspectives, it is difficult to see what the ban on full-bodied swimsuits actually achieves and it limits accessibility for those who want to swim but would like to do so wearing what they see as appropriate swimwear. These incidents in France are analogous to the racial discrimination in municipal swimming pools in the USA whose history has been documented very thoroughly by Wiltse (see literature page). A link to an article on protest in France from the Independent can be found below: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/swimming-pool-closed-burkini-ban-france-grenoble-muslim-protest-a8978836.html