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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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Feb 20

UPDATE 📣: Northumbria Police admit they didn’t comply with their own processes when they commissioned an ideologically loaded survey to 18-25 yr olds on how to ‘engage’ with the Supreme Court judgment.

Why do @northumbriapol override their own protocols when it comes to complying with the rights of women and girls?

More info and link ⬇️
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The breach on internal protocol was only confirmed via an FOI request to the force 👇.

@northumbriapol failed to provide a copy of the submission to @sunderlanduni despite this being requested, and did not provide any explanation why it had been withheld.

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They did however, copy and paste details of the submission, which contains some startling assumptions.

There is a worrying vacuum of understanding from @northumbriapol about the impact of legal misinterpretation and misrepresentation on the rights of women and girls.
All the concern is in one direction.
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Feb 5

🧵 Leisure centre sex crimes are not one-off crimes by ‘Peeping Toms’ chancing their luck in the mixed-sex changing rooms.

Time and again when a male is caught photographing women and children in the cubicle next to him it’s to add to his collection of illicit photographs and films. Leisure centre predators tend to be multiple offenders.

There was national outrage in April 2024 when two men were sentenced to a total of 22 months after being caught with over 6,000 images of women and children taken in leisure centres all over London and the south-east.

This was not an isolated case. As the examples in this thread demonstrate, predatory men are committing tens, hundreds, even thousands, of crimes in mixed-sex changing rooms all over the country. 1/5

In Derbyshire, a police community support officer was caught accessing images of child sexual abuse. When his hard drive was checked the police also found footage of seven children filmed in the family changing village at Queen’s Park Leisure Centre, Chesterfield. Only five of the children have been identified.

The offender pleaded guilty to several counts of voyeurism and to possessing 365 indecent images of the most serious category A. In addition, he admitted to possessing 262 category B and 686 category C images and 179 prohibited images of children. 2/5

In Bath, a 16-year-old girl realised she was being filmed when she noticed a camera under the changing cubicle of the swimming pool at Bath University. A 39-year-old man was apprehended and when police checked his phone they found he had recorded 32 other girls aged 16-18 (six in the swimming pool cubicles). The police have not been able to identify these girls.
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Feb 1

Leisure centres across the country are becoming crime scenes as sexual predators take advantage of easy access to women and girls getting undressed in the changing room cubicle next to them.

Here we bring you four examples where men have filmed women and girls by sliding a phone under or over a cubicle partition - every one of which could have been prevented if the leisure centre provided single-sex changing rooms for swimmers. 🧵 1/5

In Wales, a man loitering in the unisex changing area at the LC2 in Swansea spotted his prey - a teenage girl - going into a cubicle and entered the one next to it to film her. She spotted his phone, kicked it away and the pervert ran away.

We know what happened because it was caught on CCTV and shown in court. The criminal received a six month jail sentence suspended for two years. 2/5

In Northern Ireland, a voyeur photographed a child at the South Lake Leisure Centre in Craigavon.

Upper Bann DUP MLA Jonathan Buckley said he was aware of the incident and would be seeking an urgent meeting with officials at Armagh, Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Council.

‘It has been brought to my attention by local parents that there are concerns with the safeguarding of children in the unisex changing facilities in South Lake Leisure Centre,’ he said.

‘In this day and age where photographic and video technology is so easily accessible, we really cannot underestimate the potential dangers posed to children when changing in these settings.’

We agree. 3/5

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