South Africas popular gym company, Virgin Active, has announced its exit from social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter.
This comes after the company announced earlier this year that trans people would be able to use changing rooms which aligned with their legal gender.
'Virgin Active is committed to creating safe and inclusive spaces for all of our members. To ensure we achieve this, access to change rooms must correspond to a member's legal gender identity. We welcome members of the transgender community at all our clubs and allow those who have completed their full medical transition to access bathrooms that correlate with their changed legal gender,' said the company on X.
Virgin Active further said, Male members cannot access female-only spaces if they are still in transition. To ensure that we maintain this policy, members who have completed their transition must provide official identification documents reflecting their changed gender, issued by an appropriate authority. We also provide special needs/gender-neutral ablutions and facilities at most of our clubs for those who prefer a private space to change.
Following this announcement, the company was met with heavy backlash on X, with many threatening a boycott of the company, on the basis of Virgin Active not protecting female customers.
