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The operational manager kept saying that she needed to get an answer from head office to be sure that she was getting it right.

What I didn’t know – but she did – was that there was in fact a male member of the club who was transitioning. It had already been agreed that he would use the enclosed unisex/family changing area until fully transitioned – whatever that meant – and from that point on he would be welcome to use the female changing room.

In March 2023 I received a letter from the David Lloyd regional manager. It said: “Whilst you ask for a straightforward answer of yes or no the answer relates to a topic that is anything but straightforward and David Lloyds maintain to seek the balance of needs and concerns of individual members at club level.”

At a meeting in April 2023 we were shown the UK Active guidance adopted by David Lloyds Leisure. This allows members to access changing rooms according to their “gendered appearance”. No one at the meeting was brave enough to describe what that might actually look like!

I asked if this guidance had recently been adopted. But the David Lloyd staff were adamant that they had always followed UK Active guidance, and this had always been what it said.

Finally we were told that should I or my daughters feel intimidated, threatened or unsafe we should report it immediately to management.

Our girls are 11 and 13. They would be so shocked and humiliated at seeing a man’s penis in their female changing room I doubt they would want to tell anyone, let alone make a complaint. This is clearly not a family-friendly policy.

In accordance with our gender-critical beliefs, we do not accept that a man can become a woman in order to access the female single-sex spaces our daughters are using. I don’t accept compromising women’s and girls’ privacy and dignity in the name of “inclusivity”. It’s not inclusive of us.

Had David Lloyd Leisure made their changing room policy clear to us up-front we would never have joined. 

Please support me in holding David Lloyd Leisure to account for misleading their customers. I hope by taking this action we will send a strong message to anyone sacrificing women and girls right to privacy and dignity in the name of 'Inclusivity'.

Thank you very much.

Emma

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Jane Solidarity - good luck!

Kath Good luck, Emma. This is so important.

Jackie Thank you from Aberdeen, Scotland x

Kenneth Glad to help in your fight against this evil cult.

Debra Good luck Emma. I had the same issue with Virgin Active.

Sheila Fight the good fight!!

Michelle Thank you and good luck.

Marie I support you Emma! I have five granddaughters and the two eldest are almost 11 and 10 years of age. I fear for what the future holds for them when the rights/protection of women and girls disregarded at best and under attack at worst. Well done for standing up for women and girls.

CJ Thank you for having the courage to stand up for women and girls. I wish you every success.

Michael Good luck with your worthy cause. I hope my small contribution will go some way to help you succeed in a BIG way.

Campaign update: September  2024

I wanted to write to my crowd funders to express my heartfelt gratitude for all donations so far. I know that times are difficult for many and it isn’t always easy to contribute to legal expenses and so thank you to all who have supported me. If you can’t afford to contribute, please share this crowd funder on social media and talk about it with your friends and family as this will help me to win this fight. 

I also wanted to keep you informed about the case and to know that I am still doing my bit to keep up the fight against gender ideology which has now engulfed the whole of our society. We are attacked from all sides. Our women in sports being beaten up by men in the boxing ring, our Paralympics are having to race against men without disabilities, our children are force fed dangerous gender identity ideology by our schools, domestic abuse charities allow men to apply for female only roles, single sex apps are being infiltrated by men and then suing, the list goes on and on. I know my case is perhaps only a small part of the whole, but I believe that single sex spaces in changing rooms and bathrooms are an incredibly important fundamental human right for women and girls (real women and girls!) and that success anywhere in our movement encourages others to fight and win in their particular battle.

Turning to more practical matters, my case has now been transferred to York County Court and we await a hearing called a Case and Costs Management Conference. At this hearing directions will be set down by a judge and we will also be told how much each side wants if they win in legal fees. We suspect this will occur around December but will keep you updated. David Lloyd have instructed a King’s Counsel to represent them in this case and so I have found myself in a real David and Goliath fight.  After that, we will exchange disclosure and witness statements and have a trial hopefully in the summer of 2025.  The trial will be open to all to watch and so please do come to support me. My win will be a win for the movement.

If you haven’t watched my interview with Peter Whittle where I explain more about the case please find it here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FU5pVvz9FTI

Once again thank you for all of your help and fingers crossed I can win this battle against gender identity ideology in our bathrooms and changing rooms.

Emma