Even if these men were completely innocently trying on teenage female underwear because they genuinely believe that they are teenage females [hmmm], rather than because it is a sexual fetish, they should be doing it in the men’s changing room, not the women’s.
Historically, women have had single sex spaces due to risk of assault and other sexual offences by men. There is plenty of evidence to show that sexual offences against women increase significantly when changing rooms become mixed sex. So called “transwomen” as a group, commit sexual offences at the same rate as men as a group.
Not to mention the fact that many women do not want men in spaces where they are undressing, due to previous sexual trauma, religion, need to discuss intimate issues such as mastectomy, etc.
But back to my first paragraph.... if you think that a biological male who is keen to enter a women’s changing room and try on underwear is not an individual with a fetish who is trying to force unconsenting women to participate in his sexual fetish..... you are extremely naive.
If transwomen do not “feel safe” in male changing rooms, they should be campaigning for a third space. Not forcing women to feel unsafe in our own changing rooms.
Until M&S wake up and reinstate truly single sex changing (+/- add third spaces), I will boycott them.