This win shows women will stop at NOTHING to ensure our safety and that of our children - Michelle Dewberry

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Michelle Dewberry

By Michelle Dewberry


Published: 15/08/2025

- 18:50

Updated: 15/08/2025

- 19:08

GB News star Michelle Dewberry discusses her row with Virgin Active

In these strange times, it feels rare that we have things to celebrate, but today I feel like we really do.

We have what I would firstly call a victory for the safety of women and children and secondly call a victory for common sense and reality.


Viewers of my show will be aware that I feel passionately about the safety of women and girls.

You will also know that I feel passionately about the realities of biological sex.

Men are NOT the same as women and your sex is a biological reality which runs right through you - it is not something assigned by a clipboard wielding, quota-filling tickbox.

It is not assigned, it is observed.

So you will imagine my relief when way back in April, the Supreme Court finally ruled that Sex means biological sex.

The fact that we needed the highest court in the land to tell us this obvious fact is pitiful, but hey - we are where we are.

This win shows women will stop at NOTHING to ensure our safety and that of our children - Michelle DewberryThis win shows women will stop at NOTHING to ensure our safety and that of our children - Michelle Dewberry |

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If we thought that ruling was the end of the matter when it comes to things like single-sex spaces, we couldn't have been more wrong.

Since then, some organisations and service providers have simply failed to follow this ruling.

They seemed to think that somehow the ideological beliefs of a minority trumped the highest court in our land.

At my local Virgin Active gym, when I encountered a male in the female changing room, the gym proudly told me that they basically let members use the changing room with which they most identify.

I obviously swiftly cancelled my membership as a result.

Upon reflection, I decided that I couldn't just sit back and watch organisations do this, seemingly with little regard for a) the law, b) biological reality and c) the safety of women and girls.

It was therefore with fire in my belly that I decided to team up with Sex Matters, engage lawyers and commence legal action against Virgin Active to try and insist that their policies were brought in line with both reality and the law.

Now today (my legal deadline day to them), in what feels like a huge victory, Virgin Active has delivered what we asked for: They have updated their policies to state that single-sex changing rooms are designated by biological sex.

They have emailed all of their members to advise them of that fact, have committed to ensuring their signage reflects that and will be updating their staff training policies too.

I wish women didn't have to fight these battles.

But be under no illusion, we will stop at nothing to ensure our safety and that of our children.

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