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AIBU to remind you, since Virgin Active are advertising on here, that they do not have single sex facilities?

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HermioneWeasley · 01/03/2026 09:38

To be fair to VA I don’t know if they have changed their policy since I left for Bannatyne, but they were allowing people to use the facilities they preferred. I wrote to their GC to explain that they can and should be using the single sex exemption and didn’t even get a reply.

so, you might want to consider whether you feel safe using their facilities, and whether a company with such a cavalier disregard for safeguarding is one whose crèche you feel safe using.

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WorkingItOutAsIGo · 01/03/2026 14:02

They have very reluctantly changed their policies following the judgement.

Dontgetfooledagain · 01/03/2026 14:29

According to their blurb, they now provide single sex changing facilities and also unisex facilities for those that like a mixed sex changing area, and single occupancy changing cubicles for those that dont want to use any of the above.

I'd love to know what percentage of the different groups (men, women, TIM, TIW) actively choose unisex changing when given a choice and why. As a saggy middle-aged woman with no gender identity I'd always pick single occupancy through choice, although was less bothered by communal (female only) changing as a young woman.

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