Men Violating Women's Boundaries Are The Most Marginalized Community In Canada

Life in the upside-down, up north

Brigid Klyne-Simpson, a man, was “extremely devastated” that a gym for women refused to admit him. “It was important to me to be in a place that would be, like, explicitly accepting, like, ‘You are a woman, you’re allowed to be here,’” he whines.

Klyne-Simpson, who, like, “identifies” as transgender, says he needs to be in the same changing room with naked women because he is exactly the same kind of person. Except that he is of course not the same kind of person. He is a big, enormous man, so no woman is capable of ignoring his male presence.

Klyne-Simpson was not denied the opportunity to work out. Bodyworks Fitness of Parksville on Vancouver Island only told Klyne-Simpson to remain in the mixed-gender areas of the facility.

Dale Nagra, owner of Bodyworks Fitness, says Klyne-Simpson is welcome to work out at the co-ed gym but says other gym-goers at the ladies-only gym may not be comfortable.

“We want them to be comfortable, but we also have to worry about the young girls that this gym…