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Aug 1 8 tweets 8 min read
🚩 Children all over the UK have been the victims of sexual crimes in public swimming pool mixed-sex changing villages.

🚩 Sexual predators know that they can easily find their young victims in mixed-sex changing villages - especially during the school holidays.

🚩 When @Sport_England stated in its pool design guidance that ‘mixed-sex changing villages are the preferred option’ did they think of the safeguarding implications of presenting children to sexual predators?

🚩 When Councils built these pools - with public money - did they listen to local residents’ concerns? Did they even think of the hazards of allowing women and children to get undressed in cubicles next to predatory males?

🚩 Children are now suffering the consequences of decisions made without any regard for their safety. We have highlighted just a handful of the sexual crimes in swimming pool changing rooms. These all involve children, some as young as nine-years-old. 🧵

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In Stoke-on-Trent, a mother took her daughter and another girl swimming at Waterworld.

Edward Earnshaw, 27, sexually assaulted the woman’s nine-year-old daughter while she was in a cubicle in the mixed-sex changing village.

The girl and her friend gave pre-recorded evidence to the court. The court recorder stated: “The trial put both girls through quite an ordeal having to give evidence… She was isolated and vulnerable in the cubicle.”

The girl’s mother said her daughter was normally a confident young girl, but she now suffers with separation anxiety and won't go upstairs on her own or remain downstairs alone. "She is receiving counselling through school and I worry about what long term effects this will have on her wellbeing as she approaches early adolescence. She will likely be more emotionally vulnerable than her peers on account of this awful experience.” 2/8Image
Jul 6 6 tweets 4 min read
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. 1/6Image
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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. 2/6Image
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May 31 8 tweets 3 min read
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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trib.al/XepnDuB x.com/DailyMail/stat…Image 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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Apr 18 6 tweets 3 min read
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 Image
Mar 30 7 tweets 3 min read
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 … 🚩 1/7Image 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 Image
Mar 30 4 tweets 2 min read
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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telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/03/2…Image 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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Mar 18 5 tweets 3 min read
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.

1/Image 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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Feb 20 6 tweets 2 min read
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 ⬇️
1/Image 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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Feb 5 5 tweets 4 min read
🧵 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. 1/5Image 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. 2/5Image
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Feb 1 5 tweets 4 min read
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. 🧵 1/5Image 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. 2/5Image
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Jan 22 5 tweets 3 min read
🚨 Why have Northumbria Police @northumbriapol commissioned a survey 👇 targeted at 18-25 yr olds using highly contested ideological language, to inform them how to ‘engage’ with the @ForWomenScot Supreme Court ruling?

Just comply with the law!

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sunduni.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_7Q…Image This survey is being carried out by the University of Sunderland @sunderlanduni and was commissioned by Northumbria Police.
It will have been authorised at the highest level.

The Chief Constable is Vanessa Jardine, National Police Chiefs Council lead @policechiefs for ‘LGBTQ+’ issues.

The very same chief who was responsible for the unlawful strip search policy based on self ID. #StateSanctionedSexualAssault

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Jan 3 8 tweets 4 min read
One-third of local council swimming pools ONLY offer mixed-sex changing facilities for swimmers. These ‘changing villages’ are a magnet for sexual predators.

WRN has been collating court reports where males have been convicted of crimes committed in mixed-sex changing rooms. Here are a few examples…

Two men were jailed after being convicted of secretly filming around 6,000 women and children, in swimming pool changing rooms in leisure centres throughout London and the south-east … 1/8Image Young girls at leisure centres in Sutton-in-Ashfield and Mansfield were secretly filmed by a Police Community Support Officer from Derbyshire. This man also filmed women and children at Centre Parcs near Nottingham… 2/8Image
Dec 15, 2025 5 tweets 3 min read
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.

1/5Image 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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Dec 12, 2025 4 tweets 2 min read
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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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.”



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Nov 22, 2025 8 tweets 4 min read
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/

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pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40924893/
1/Image 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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Nov 19, 2025 6 tweets 3 min read
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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Oct 22, 2025 4 tweets 3 min read
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 1/4Image 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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Sep 14, 2025 4 tweets 2 min read
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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Aug 16, 2025 8 tweets 4 min read
Women in prison are amongst the most vulnerable groups in society. More vulnerable still are the tiny number of girls under 18 held in prisons.

Yet @hmpps’s Youth Custody Service maintain that girls should NOT be held in single sex institutions.

1/8 Image Secure Training Centres, Secure Children’s Homes and the Secure School all incarcerate girls alongside boys.
There is not one single option for female only accommodation for girls under 18 in the prison estate, despite ample evidence that girls who go to prison have almost always been serially abused and exploited by males.

penalreform.org/issues/women/k…

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Jul 25, 2025 9 tweets 4 min read
It’s 100 days since the Supreme judgment. 100 days during which @Girlguiding could have looked at their dreadful ‘inclusive’ policies and changed them.

Reader, they have not.

This thread 🧵 may distress you if you thought your daughter’s welfare and safeguarding were a priority.
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Their section on what the law says makes no mention of the Supreme Court judgment of 16th April.

The Equality Act is referred to, but if there is any review of policies since the judgment, it’s not apparent.
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Jun 29, 2025 12 tweets 6 min read
THREAD. 🧵
“I honestly could not believe what I was reading when I saw this survey. As a gender critical police officer, I have been openly called a 'nazi, 'fascist', 'militant' and 'obtuse' - just for expressing my views post-Forstater".

This National Police Chiefs’ (NPCC) survey 👇 has been circulated to officers and staff nationally following the Supreme Court judgment. A serving police officer leaked the survey to us and shared their shock.

We suggest the NPCC (the head honchos of every UK police force) just need to follow the law. Now.

(WRN will not share the link to this survey publicly)
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"There is no mention of the horrendous treatment of gender critical people and, indeed, it actually goes above and beyond to imply my abusers might be the actual victims of the ruling".

"I have no hope that the current NPCC might do the decent thing and kick ideology out of policing once and for all. They seem intent on destroying the trust of the public, undermining the law and trashing what little morale there is left within the rank and file”.

Read on – and brace yourselves.
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