M&S Manager In Colchester Boots Woman Out For Asking Where The Women’s Changing Room Is

Is the gender neutral changing room debate still a thing? Well apparently so if this incident at M&S in Colchester is anything to go by.

This woman asked the manager where the women’s changing room was and then had a go at him for breaking the law (huh?) by not have single sex-spaces. The manager, who absolutely could not be @rsed for the conversation, told her that it was “completely safe” and that she should take it up with head office, and then asked her to leave when she wouldn’t drop it…

Colchester @marksandspencer I asked where the women’s changing room was to try on swimwear. Manager Andrew (he/ his /him) says gender neutral changing areas are “completely safe” for women and girls. For asking him this question, he told me to leave the store. @SexMattersOrg pic.twitter.com/MuZXo6coQN

— Abouterf (@Abouterf197543) May 26, 2026

At the risk of sounding like a “woke lefty”, is it really that big a deal? I mean, I could swear that changing rooms in stores like M&S have always been gender neutral. Besides, everyone gets their own private cubicle and no one is actually sharing a space with anyone else. So what’s the problem?

I just don’t get why she’s picking on this particular bloke at this particular M&S when the same thing has been happening at every store in the U.K. since forever. What does she want the guy to do? He didn’t make the policy, he just works there!

Well anyway, she should probably take his advice and contact head office and tell them how they’re ‘breaking the law’ by not providing single sex changing rooms. What next? Human rights violation for unflattering lightning in the store?

For the woman who won a £16,000 payout after Zara staff opened the curtain as she tried on clothes, click HERE. So perhaps no ‘perfectly’ safe, then.