Duncan Bannatyne gets it

He's still going!

Oops, wrong thread!!

DS's underfunded state school has got a pool.

They keep it open by doing paid lessons in the evenings.

(The kids. only get to use it about 8 weeks a year each, mind, but that's another story!)

I find it fascinating when men speak out. The reactions are SO different and it’s half fascinating and half terrifying when you really notice the difference

It is Presea! I'm the same.

Until the end of my 30s, I thought I had it all sussed - worked for 2 decades in a heavily male-dominated environment etc - thought 'the feminists' were stuck in the past...

I've been becoming increasingly aware over the last few years now, but the scales have well & truly been ripped from my eyes recently.
I see the double standards everywhere - and I find I'm looking back at my past life with fresh eyes, and I'm raging!!

I find it fascinating when men speak out. The reactions are SO different and it’s half fascinating and half terrifying when you really notice the difference

Hypocrite or not, he's talking and people are reading.

He seems to be enjoying demolishing TRAs on Twitter today. He's got a lot of followers, so hopefully some more will realise what's going on

Duncan Bannatyne is a total hypocrite. I was in one of his gyms and challenged him online about the policy after not renewing my membership due to the Self ID thing, amongst other insults hurled at me from his sycophantic followers, he said I was an idiot. Would not trust him as far as I could throw him

Duncan has just spoken out again

In the twitter comments, I see one from BBC Scotland, inviting DB to speak about mixed sex sport. (John Beattie)

I bet DB didn't expect that.

With so few people in the public eye taking an interest, let alone speaking out, DB might find himself thrust into the spotlight.

He's getting tremendous feedback, though, so should take heart that he's on the #rightsideofhistory

Go, Duncan, go!

It's precisely because he has balls that he gets people disagreeing politely and engaging in debate. Those without balls, pickled or otherwise, get abuse. Funny that.

Thank you, Duncan Bannatyne, for having some balls.

Good man.

I would immediately stop a membership at any gym that allowed unisex change or showers. I would actively take a membership at one where they rejected self ID.

It’s a sound business call. I’d be very interested to see what the insurers say about this as well. A gym has a duty of care to users - men in women’s change rooms are a lawsuit waiting to happen.

He's a rich powerful white man. How strange the TRAs aren't quite so vociferous at trying to beat him down.

So, how surprised are we that a man has spoken and hasn’t faced the wrath of the TRAs?

have been pondering for ages joining the Bannatyne gym near me, and did wonder what their policy would be re: self-id. Think I will join now!

I used to go swimming in a leisure centre near my old workplace. There was a running story in the local press about trouble with 'peeking tom's' in the communal changing rooms, so I stopped going.

Bannatyne spa days currently trending on groupon

My local pool has both communal changing facilities with cubicles and separate facilities for men and women. So far no problems. The council owned pool only has segregated sex changing areas. It’s these places that will be problematic in the future as although they do have cubicles, there is also communal areas and showers. I can’t bear the thought of showering naked and a man is showering naked next to me. And there’s NOTHING I can do about it! Or worse, I’ll be told to
get out for being ‘transphobic’...

Think I’m going to book a spa day

Another encouraging tweet from Duncan Bannatyne:

twitter.com/duncanbannatyne/status/1047551859785957376?s=21

We take Y2, 3 and 4 swimming.

But great to see Duncan Bannatyne speaking out.

Well done, Duncan

Excellent news that men are speaking out too
He recognises why women and girls need single sex facilities, for protection from predatory men

I go to the gym 5 times per week and my gym has only a communal changing area and a commonal shower area, no cubicles.
Women are all naked, but we feel secure and at ease, because single sex is enforced (I live in Germany)

Useful link on that thread about assaults in changing rooms

"Of 134 complaints over 2017-2018, 120 reported incidents took place in gender-neutral changing rooms and just 14 were in single-sex changing areas.
...
Unisex facilities account for less than half the changing areas across the UK, but the number is on the rise "
...
and the article quotes an MP who gets it, too:
“These figures show that women and girls are more vulnerable in mixed changing rooms and there is a danger these places are becoming a magnet for sexual offenders,” says David Davies, MP for Monmouth.

There is also a state primary 3 miles from my house that build its' own swimming pool a few years ago.

Icanreachthepretzels, some primaries do send Ks1 swimming. I have grave doubts as to the efficacy of this, but it does definitely happen. One little boy in my son's class had to stay on the steps because he was so small he couldn't reach the bottom of the training pool at age 6

I was thinking the same thing. Anywhere central that says women only, and we're invoking the exemptions is going to have hordes of women showing up.