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Jul 6

In our trawl of news reports of sexual crimes in leisure centre changing rooms we’ve noticed that some leisure centres crop up more than once, and some several times.

To have one sexual crime on your premises is ‘unfortunate’, to have more than one is completely unacceptable and avoidable. What are local authorities and leisure providers doing to keep women and girls safe? The answer seems to be… not much.

In Northern Ireland, at least TWELVE incidents of voyeurism were reported in the mixed-sex changing rooms at Omagh Leisure Centre between 2014 and 2020. During the centre refurbishment in 2013-14, single-sex changing rooms were converted to mixed-sex and lo and behold…more sexual crimes as predatory males made the most of easy access to their victims. 1/6

In Dundee’s Olympia Centre, at least two sexual assaults have occurred in the mixed-sex changing rooms. In May this year, 44-year-old Craig Ellingwood was in court after filming a woman in the showers. In 2023, a paedophile was found guilty of a string of sexual offences including assaults in the Olympia changing rooms. Alexander Scott died before he could be sentenced. 2/6

Also in Scotland, Perth Leisure Centre’s mixed-sex changing rooms have been the scene of at least two sexual crimes. In April 2026, Mohammed Mirzai, 24, was jailed for 10 months for a string of sexual offences including voyeurism in the mixed-sex changing room. In December 2015, three girls were sexually abused in the pool and one girl raped in the changing rooms by Paul White, who was jailed for 10 years. 3/6

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May 31

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THE POLICE WOULD RATHER BREAK THE LAW THAN OFFEND STAFF TRANS ACTIVIST NETWORKS
@gwentpolice consider themselves above the law.
So we’ve served a Letter Before Action on them.

Story by Rebecca Camber at @Mailonline.
More details below 👇
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Gwent police are STILL permitting men to use women’s workplace facilities – including showers, changing rooms and toilets.

They refer to this in an internal policy as an ‘entitlement’.

Astonishingly, this policy was reviewed AFTER the Supreme Court made the Equality Act crystal clear.
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The WRN Wales deputy coordinator, wrote to Gwent Chief Constable Mark Hobrough, pointing out their error in law, and seeking a meeting.

DCC Nicola Brain, (who also carried out the policy review in June 2025) dismissed this, and decided a meeting was not ‘appropriate’.

However, a referral of any upset staff to trans organisation Mermaids, in communications issued after the judgment is ‘appropriate’?
You decide.
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Apr 18

Congratulations to the newly formed University of Leicester Women in Sport Society @UoLWSS which is ‘a proudly single-sex society’.

Female students have suffered greatly from weak sports’ governing bodies and @BUCSsport policies which have NOT stood up for women’s sport.

Universities have singularly failed to deliver women’s sport. 🧵 1/6

We think of Nottingham University where several generations of female hockey players have suffered a 40-something male on their team. Countless young women will have lost out … 2/6

We recall the Loughborough University student who competed in the women’s lacrosse team because the rules allow it but competed for the men’s water polo team because women’s water polo excludes males 🤷🏻‍♀️ It’s called having your cake and eating it. 3/6

https://x.com/womensrightsnet/status/2016904904884048219?s=61&t=HeTVV02FVbA_mwnXH0ymWg

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Mar 30

The epidemic of sex crimes in leisure centre changing rooms continues unabated in 2026. In just the first three months of this year leisure centres around the country have been the scene of numerous crimes of voyeurism and sexual assault.

In Blackburn, Lancs, a man in his 20s was arrested after allegedly taking photographs of children in the mixed-sex changing village … 🚩 1/7

In Chorley, Lancs, a man in his 30s was arrested after an incident in the mixed-sex changing rooms at All Seasons Leisure Centre… 🚩 2/7

In Carshalton, Surrey, a man in his 60s, was caught filming a mother and child in the mixed-sex changing rooms at Westcroft Leisure Centre … 🚩 3/7

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Mar 30

Plymouth council are keen to fly the Progress Pride flag - but not to comply with the Supreme Court judgment.

As Cathy says, “They are signalling their allegiance and support for men who want to call themselves women and enter women’s spaces”.

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Our report ‘The Waiting Shame’ examined the approach of every English council to the Supreme Court judgment.

We found that Plymouth council’s ‘Transgender and Gender Reassignment policy’, allows ANY employee to use the facilities of the opposite sex.
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Plymouth are telling their own female staff they don’t matter, and that men can access their spaces. The message this sends to the wider female public is that their rights are also dispensable.

The flag is just another way of displaying their contempt for women’s rights.

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Mar 18

GWENT POLICE ARE BREAKING THE LAW

A police force is openly admitting, 11 months after the Supreme Court judgment that they are continuing to allow men into women’s changing rooms and toilets.

They are STILL telling their staff that this is an 'entitlement'.
They are wrong.

We’d like to know what the Chief Constable and PCC of @gwentpolice will do about this flagrant breach of the Workplace Regulations 1992.

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The response by @gwentpolice to a WRN FOI about their policies around workplace facilities is staggering.
They’ve produced a policy (last reviewed June 2025) which is:
❌Legally incorrect
❌ Unforgivably ignorant (at best), or
❌ Contemptuous (at worst) of the rights of their female staff and officers.

Given that they didn’t even see any need to consult those females, then we aren’t surprised. The very same females who have had their rights breached for years.
No apologies, no consultation.
The Chief Constable did find time to consult with the LGBTQ+ group though …..
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.@gwentpolice sent out a communication to staff following the Supreme Court judgment.
A communication which told them to continue just as they were. Which in this case, means to continue breaking the law.
A communication that oddly, also referred their staff to Mermaids.
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