Baroness Nicholson on twitter

Yeah bu5 they never address the point that women don’t always go in changing rooms on their own

We take our kids and their buggys and a toddler or two and we can’t shut the door.

I don’t want somebody’s sexual identity to be put above my privacy

I don’t mind other women seeing me. I do really really not want a strange guy seeing me however he identifies

would M&S employ a TW in the womens lingerie department

They do.

OMG that article-very worrying-would M&S employ a TW in the womens lingerie department? Grosse

careers.marksandspencer.com/inside-mands/how-one-colleague-has-helped-make-m%26s-more-inclusive

Unique supports Trans* people, from just-left-the-closet cross-dressers to transsexuals following Gender Reassignment Surgery (taken from unique website).

Its not an accident crossdressers use the womens changing rooms. They have been actively encouraging them

Have M&S profits been announced recently? I have not shopped there for months, due to the changing room policy and I'm not alone.

Excellent Lordfrontpaw.

What serendipity! And a pretty good article. Suuuunlight Archie

Just saw this www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8351127/amp/Marks-Spencers-transgender-policy-puts-women-girls-risk-voyeurs-say-campaigners.html?ito=amp_twitter_share-top&__twitter_impression=true

M&S is a Stonewall Champion. Whether or not they consulted remains to be seen.

Yes Xpectations who has misrepresented the equality act to them ? Who made these decisions knowing that it would make all the changing rooms mixed sex, including bra fitting rooms used by women who have just been through breast surgery and need a kind, female space, women who are of a faith that has strict rules on the mixing of the sexes, and very young girls , who will be feeling self conscious about their first bra fitting.
That combined with the ease of hiding a camera in a cubicle while wanking in the one next door.

If they can't address this issue adequately, I hope the papers pick up that all fitting rooms at Marks & Spencer's, including lingerie and bra fitting for teenagers, is now mixed sex.

I believe they've already reported on it, but it needs to be more prominent really.

Because I doubt M&S will say they got the law so fundamentally wrong by themselves. I’d say there was a ‘trusted partner’ they consulted, received training and ‘Champion’ awards from, that M&S will say offered advice. One that is publicly funded and might be at risk of losing this funding.
Of course, buck stops with M&S cos it was their responsibility to check the legality.

@SirVixofVixHall
I think it opens up examination of why M&S have such a poor understanding, ie whom did they consult?
If it’s one of the usual suspects, this could be a push to get them at least publicly defunded and their reputations tarnished so state institutions won’t want further relationships or inclusivity awards from them. It’s a big ask, but I wonder if this is the long game, for want of a better term.

I think it shows he's not got a clue what he's talking about & im hoping he's about to get 'schooled'.

I don’t understand why she thinks it is an excellent letter ? It is a hopeless letter. “Sexual identity “ what the hell does that mean ? The whole woolly obfuscation of that letter made me grind my teeth. Is is basically “ we have safe single sex spaces that anyone of any sex can use even next to teenage girls because “ .
I really don’t want Marks and Sparks to go under, i used to spend a significant chink of money there over a year, but they have absolutely no idea who their core customer is , or any sense of safeguarding the girls who use their bra fitting rooms, who will mostly be children of around 12/13.

She's seen that & asked for a date/article I think & then been more direct asking for M&S examples. I think focusing on one shop, with the engagement of the chairman is a good tactic. Remember it took only 2 girls to start the domino effect on the schools guides. 1 big scalp on changing rooms, acknowledging the risks/liability, is all it takes to make an impact. It's why she's asking for concrete examples she can refer to as either a direct consequence of their policy or where they've ignored to risks/impacts on female customers.

I know of one incident in another store & the business failed to address the sexual harassment element of the demands of a Male getting a young female assistant to help him put on thigh high boots/heeled shoes while wearing a dress, nor the impact on the young teenage girl in the next changing room who froze when she heard a male voice in the next cubicle. The shop offered £500 spending vouchers as an apology but did not change their policy, nor make the fact their changing facilities were mixed sex.

• oh, I see someone has already mentioned them to her. Fast moving feminists on twitter!

My local store had curtains I think, when I last went in ? I have been boycotting them so I haven’t used the fitting room for ages, I may be getting mixed up, or they may have changed the cubicles. Certainly they were almost never manned, so I went in with my dd as I was worried letting her go in alone.

I'm not on Twitter - has anyone sent the Baroness the link about the increase in attacks in mixed sex changing rooms?

www.independent.co.uk/life-style/women/sexual-assault-unisex-changing-rooms-sunday-times-women-risk-a8519086.html

Just in case anyone is on Twitter and would like to point her in that direction!

If I was only willing to accept the positive changes made to my world by those I 100% approve of, much of the good stuff would disappear instantly.

Martin Luther King Jr's record with women was awful. Let's bin all his positive contributions shall we?

Twitter can only be destructive to anything she attempts to achieve, in the long run. It is such a destructive platform. I hope she steps back. It may offer solace to those that like what she has to say...but it can also cause much damage and hurt.

Let’s support BN and not get her efforts derailed. She’s fantastic. I don’t have to agree with everything anyone says/does to be an admirer.