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Dec 15

Day 15 of our Christmas campaign.

These are not just women’s lingerie fitting rooms, these are @marksandspencer mixed sex lingerie fitting rooms and they are open to men.

Our old friends at M&S, purveyors of the nation’s underwear, are pulling a huge con trick on their female customer base, and subjecting female changing room assistants to the behaviour of predatory men.

One woman’s dreadful shopping experience below – and the response from M&S is a shocker too.

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A female customer of @marksandspencer contacted WRN after an appalling experience at the lingerie changing rooms in their Kingston store.

All these cubicles are in one enclosed space in the female lingerie area, and the customer naturally expected them to be for females only. However, while in the changing rooms, she noticed a male person emerging from the cubicle opposite hers. This naturally distressed her.

So she wrote to M&S to request their official policy in relation to lingerie fitting rooms.

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The female customer asked:

⛔️Are these facilities intended to be women-only spaces?
⛔️If they are women-only, how is this policy applied in practice?
⛔️If they are open to all, how does this sit with the decision of the Supreme Court?

She also asked how the policy for the lingerie changing rooms aligned with a recent public commitment by @marksandspencer that bra-fitting services in these rooms will only be provided by female staff.

So what was the answer from M&S?

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Dec 12

Day 12 of the WRN Christmas campaign and we return to @Morrisons – but not for the Christmas shopping.

We’ve highlighted some appalling incidents there already, but there are many more. Even young children are not safe in Morrisons’ toilets, which seem to be a magnet for predators.

Setting aside the ‘Katie’ Dolatwoski incident, the pattern there is still shocking.

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This was an incident in a Loughborough @Morrisons.

A 16 year girl with learning difficulties was allegedly raped in a baby changing area.

“I tried to leave and he would not let me. I was talking loud because I wanted someone to know that something was not right in the baby changing room.
“He told me to shut up.”

2/4guardian-series.co.uk/news/9476489.l…

In an incident at a Kendal @Morrisons, this man admitted that he pointed a hidden camera at a child using a toilet there and built up a collection of indecent images of children.

3/4thewestmorlandgazette.co.uk/news/19442975.…

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Nov 22

A Pathway To Hell

The Pathways trial — which will give puberty blockers to vulnerable children, is a pathway to horrific lifelong harms and litigation which could cost taxpayers millions of pounds.

No child can give informed consent to an experiment which carries significant and well documented risks which include sterility, loss of sexual function, bone loss and possible cognitive impairment and increased cancer risk.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38594047/

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40438403/

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40924893/
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There is a large body of research which shows adolescence is a period of neurological changes which govern decision making, our response to rewards and our assessment of risk.

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC46…
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35758886/
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That’s why we protect children and teenagers from harm by criminalising the provision of tattoos, alcohol, and cigarettes to under 18s.

Yet this trial expects children as young as 10 to demonstrate their understanding of the risks of taking puberty blockers, a ‘persistent’ desire to delay their own puberty, and assent to ‘treatment’.

This cannot be a realistic ask, especially when it comes to children who may be very emotionally vulnerable. It is bewildering that any parent, legal guardian or ethics committee could give consent to this pathway to hell.

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Nov 19

All our unions, including the three largest in the UK, seem heavily invested in Transgender Awareness Week with not a thought for the dignity, privacy and safety of their women members.
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The unions publish guidance and model policies which are unlawful. The Supreme Court ruling in FWS was clear that trans identified men are not permitted to use women's facilities and yet the trade unions dictate otherwise putting female members in harm's way.
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The GMB go further highlighting how stressful it can be to switch from using one 'gendered' facility to another. Our hearts bleed for the cross dressing, gender fluid men who have to decide on a daily basis what facility they feel like using.
❌No consideration for the women who might not want to share with a man.
❌No recognition of our legal right to single sex spaces.
❌No thought for the health issues women might suffer as a consequence of avoiding mixed sex toilets.
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Oct 22

Yet another report of voyeurism in a unisex changing area. This kind of offending is now commonplace because providers and councils enable offenders with easy access in mixed sex 'changing villages' or similar. Single sex spaces are a vital safeguard against such activity and yet we see more and more women only facilities being replaced by mixed sex provision 1/4

We know these convictions will be the tip of the iceberg and many more victims will be unaware of their images being shared and their privacy violated in such an extreme manner. So why do our councils continue deliberately putting women and girls in harm's way?
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This startling data from 2017-18 shows how stark the risk is in mixed sex changing areas which are far more commonplace in 2025 than they were in 2017. So why are our councils ignoring the overwhelming evidence that such spaces are not only unpopular but dangerous?
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Sep 14

While police officers are busily investigating people for tweets, rapes are being reported to the @metpoliceuk at the rate of ONE every HOUR - and we know that’s only a fraction of the real rate.

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dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…

Less than 2% of these rape reports will lead to a conviction.

This is an abject failure by every aspect of the justice system.

Shockingly, a quarter of the incidents reported in London concern a victim under the age of 18.

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bbc.com/news/articles/…

The @metpoliceuk and @CPSUK are failing women and girls in London.

The problems of misogyny in the Met’s own ranks are well known, highlighted in Baroness Casey’s report, and by the multiple scandals of perpetrators from within the force’s own ranks.

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bbc.com/news/uk-650154…

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