A Mother Takes Bold Stand for Privacy and Safety

One afternoon Kate took her children to their local gym’s swimming pool. To her great surprise she encountered a man in the women’s locker room and changing area. She was even more surprised by what happened next.

When she reported the incident to gym management, she was the one who was reprimanded. The gym had a policy that allows people to use the bathrooms and locker rooms that match their “gender identity” even when it is not consistent with their biological sex.

The man identified as a woman, therefore he had a right to be there. If Kate and her daughters were uncomfortable, they were the one’s who needed to find a different place to change – not him.

“Nobody asked me first,” Kate stated in an interview about the incident with Family Policy Alliance.

“All over this [gym] it talks about respect and caring and safety. And I went there trusting that… that they would care about how frightened I felt, how violated I felt, and how scared I was for the women and children in that locker room.”

The gym Kate and her family attended doesn’t have safeguards in place to ensure a man using the women’s locker room has no harmful intentions.

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Kate is now speaking out against policies that allow men unfettered access to women’s bathrooms and locker rooms. You can join the conversation on social media by using the hashtag #AskMeFirst.

Learn more about the movement at AskMeFirstPlease.com