GB News Presenter Michelle Dewberry Cancels her Virgin Active Membership After “Encountering a Man in the Female Changing Rooms”
GB News presenter Michelle Dewberry has revealed she’s cancelled her Virgin Active membership after “seeing a man in the changing female changing rooms” and being dissatisfied with the gym’s response to her concerns. The Mail has more.
Dewberry, who won the second season of The Apprentice, shared a screenshot of the gym’s reply to her email seeking clarification about its policy that read: “The changing rooms are split between female and male, with children attending up to the age of eight-years-old of a different gender.
“For the female changing rooms in particular, this would cover females of all ages, boys up to the age of eight, transgender females, and non-binary members.”
Taking to X, formerly Twitter, she wrote: “Whatever happened to our right to a single-sex changing space?
“If you are among the minority of woman [sic] who are comfortable sharing your single-sex changing room with adult males, I completely respect that.Â
“But what about the majority of us who aren’t?”
Dewberry did not elaborate further, or reveal if it was a transwoman she encountered.
Guidance issued by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) in 2022 said it is legal for gyms to limit these communal spaces to a single-sex as long as a gender-neutral changing room is also provided for trans people.
MailOnline has contacted Virgin Active for comment.Â
Britain’s human rights body said that service providers wishing to limit services to a single sex are legally able to do so, provided the reasons are justified and proportionate.
Dewberry’s post divided X as some users agreed it was unfair that “the men’s [changing room] is the men’s and the women’s is a free-for-all”.
Others questioned whether Virgin Active provided “communal changing rooms, where you strip in front of each other? Or do they have individual cubicles?”
“I had the same issue a number of years ago and also cancelled my membership,” one user replied to Dewberry.Â
It comes after British fitness influencer Natalee Barnett faced fierce criticism for refusing to allow trans women to train at her female-only gym as the equality law now divides the UK’s health clubs and training centres.
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Well done Michelle.đź‘Ťđź‘Ťđź‘Ť
What used to be called ‘Peeping Toms’ and ‘voyeurism’ has been given the green light and these men now have carte blanche to crawl out of the woodwork and perv on women and girls until their heart’s content in any setting they like, thanks to the weaponization of identity politics against female sex-based rights. In what realm is this deemed acceptable? Why does nobody consider this a safeguarding issue? Why do the rights of a man with a fetish trump the rights of women and girls to have their privacy and dignity respected? But we know that there are plenty of disgusting, traitorous women enabling these odious creeps to get their kicks because this is the very ideology that they push. One such ( infamous ) example here, Judith Butler; “we’ve assigned different values that are associated with women & that’s true for all time and all space…so who are we to say? Have we lived in all time and all space? We have not” This is the woman at the intellectual heart of Transgenderism, their Patron Saint, if you will. This was her response to “what is a woman?” When you see this stuff and you realize that all… Read more »
‘Why is literally no one asking what is a man?’ Because it’s easier to push women around. You never hear of the women who are saying they are men, threatening to punch men who disagree with them.
No, because they are bound to be physically inferior and know that they won’t win that contest. Or indeed start it because they have female brains and thus are less confrontational in the first place.
The only way you can believe that men can be women is if you believe women possess absolutely no inherent value themselves
Excellent point. It highlights the profound misogyny at the heart of all of this.
I guess thats why the Rape torture gangs can get away with raping little girls, because biological females don’t exist and therefore rape cannot be a crime.
The rapists could be saying they are lesbians.
Something I noticed in the News this morning regarding the EUs response to the Trump tariffs — They called them ‘Countermeasures’…..Heard that somewhere before!
A good dose of the Trumpesque remedy is needed here, Good on you Michelle.
Where are the feminists now?
The women who find it insulting when a man politely opens the door for them.
The women who want to smash the patriarchy.
The women who tell you off for mansplaining.
Where are they now?
I think it’s the feminists that are enabling this nonsense in the first place, when they’re not holding their “Refugees Welcome” placards and telling us we’re fascists if we oppose mass immigration or “transphobic” if we don’t want men cheating their way to victory in women’s sports. That’s my impression, anyway. It’s a bit hard to keep up with all the versions and subcategories, so I don’t even try to.
I’m not even sure if it’s possible to be a feminist who isn’t a Leftard. They’re one and the same. And before any ladies come on and challenge me for saying that because you’re all about ‘women’s rights’, that version of feminism has long since passed. That particular ship sailed decades ago. Women did gain rights and equality, now it’s all being undone by dratted so-called ‘feminists’ pissing all over women’s rights by enabling predatory men to gain access to our private spaces etc. These people are walking contradictions, and as such, I think they are our enemies not our allies.
Like similar recent NHS incidents, delve deep enough inside Virgin Media and expect to find the female changing-room policy was decided by, “equalities officers and LGBT members of staff.”
Policy of a tiny minority, by a tiny minority, for a tiny minority – against the wishes of the vast majority of women.
Meanwhile the massed forces of human rights lawyers turn the usual blind eye.
time to boycott , Bud lite them
Yes. And those human rights layers only care about male illegals crossing the channel. Yes. Most appeals against deportation are handled by male lawyers for male offenders.
Thing is, any Tom, Dick or Dick can say they are trans, whether they are or not – and they will all be waved through, no question, into female changing rooms to ogle females with no clothes on if they so wish. I suppose in this perfect, progressive, utopian, new world, perverts don’t exist.
Yes you don’t have to be a legitimate trans person at all. Just self I.D and Bob’s your uncle, you get a free pass. It’s like some bizarre form of mass delusion/formation psychosis. I’d say it’s just another form of establishment-pushed PsyOp, very much like the Scamdemic was. All the idiocy people followed dutifully then, the insane, totally irrational rules, like one global experiment on human behaviour and conformity. Who took leave of their senses and checked their common sense at the door, swallowing the propaganda hook, line and sinker, and who remained firmly rooted in reality, adhering to irrefutable fact, questioning everything and adamantly refused to partake in the madness? As ever, this is when a person’s true colours are revealed. Sadly, many are highly susceptible and are complete pushovers. Many are just cowards.
Imagine that going wrong, how did that happen…? 🤔
I suppose in this perfect, progressive, utopian, new world, perverts don’t exist.
You’re right! We’ve eliminated perverts. What a bizarre world.
Au contraire, they are all Labour MPs and councillors
I’d forgotten about them!
Super-scary, and so undignified
Although there are cubicles for private changing at my wife’s swimming pool, the showering is not fully private or fully segregated. She has had reason to complain about men wearing very little strutting around the shared hair drying space for no apparent reason other than to display evidence of their masculinity.
I can understand that. If I worked in a place that allowed women in men’s bogs then I would leave especially urinals.
Sorry but trans really means deluded and in some cases dangerous and have no place in biological female places, this should not even be occurring, why exactly do we pander to all this “woke” rubbish?
It used to be a red flag for psychiatrists to investigate men who had exposed themselves in public since it was often the first sign of their behaviour becoming more dangerous.
Wayne Cousins exposed himself twice before he went on to rape and kill.
Allowing men into female changing spaces is dangerous and should be stopped on safety grounds before another poor girl is killed.
Clearly Virgin active believes in the erasure of the biological female and thus treats them with contempt as an inferior species to men who declare themselves women.
All women who wish to protect and uphold their rights and those of their sisters and daughters to be treated as an equal human being need to resign from this misogynist operation. Let them keep their space for men.
I’m afraid this is what it is going to take to change the abuse of women by the Establishment/Transgender lobby:
Women need to stop funding organisations which disrespect them in this way …. whether sports / swimming facilities; shop changing rooms etc and, if necessary, resign from their jobs in (say) the NHS if they are required to strip in front of a man-in-a-frock.
All people need to do is STOP using any place that indulges in this total CRAP. Their absurdity would soon stop once people refuse to show up in their silly gender nonsense establishments. —Well done Michelle.
I watched the show. I couldn’t believe it. Virgin Active? Oh, they are prob captured by stonewall too. Why do these commercial companies kowtow to a god of nowhere? A god of falsehood and destruction of societal mores? Michelle we stand with you and we must fight back.
So can anyone point to an incident where a woman has pretended she is a man? No, thought not.