Guy loiters in female changing room to watch young girls getting naked. Staff says nothing can be done.

Janayh Wright, a photographer and mother of three, spoke to Reduxx about her own encounter with the man — one she says she had heard about before interacting with [him] herself. Wright explains that she was aware of rumors that a male had been using the women’s facilities at the Nanaimo Aquatic Centre from other parents, some of whom said they had lodged complaints with both staff and local police.

On February 3, Wright was visiting the pool with her daughter and niece. She told Reduxx that she would typically wait for her daughter outside of the changing room, but decided to accompany her that day.

While in the changing room, Wright witnessed a man wearing a wig and a face mask enter the women’s facility and proceeded to walk over to the shower area. Wright says he did not have a towel or pool bag, and gave no indication that he was getting changed or going swimming. He then returned and entered the stall next to the one Wright’s daughter was changing in.

Let me guess – the stall doesn’t have walls floor to ceiling.

Wright watched as the man tried to peer under the stall and into the one her daughter was using.

How on earth did I guess?

You know, if these buffoons are going to insist on letting men do this, they could at least make the stalls pervert-proof. Floor to ceiling, god damn it, not those stupid things with gaps that invite people to peer and poke cameras under or over.

She immediately confronted him as he exited, but the man simply responded that he identified as female and that it was his “human right to be in the women’s changing room.”

Oddly enough girls and women don’t want women peering at them under the stall either. If he really were a woman, he would still be invading people’s privacy. But also there’s no such thing as a “human right” for men to force women to get naked while strangers watch them.

She escorted the man out of the changing room and reported the incident to the Nanaimo Aquatic Centre staff, who told her that she was not allowed to kick him out. They warned her that she could be arrested and charged for her actions.

His human right to leer under partitions was violated! Call the cops!