‘I saw a naked man in the women’s locker room’: Teen girl breaks down in tears and tells councilman she was ‘terrified’ to see a naked man in her shower at the YMCA

A California teenage girl
Wednesday said during a city council meeting that she was “startled” by the sight of a “naked man in the women’s locker room” in her shower at the YMCA in Santee, a San Diego suburb about 20 minutes northeast of the city.

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Rebekah Phillips17, told the Santee City Council that a few weeks ago, after finishing her shift at her job, she went to the YMCA for one of her regular workouts and swam laps.

“When I was showering after my workout, I saw a naked man in the women’s locker room,” Phillips said. “I immediately went back into the shower, terrified, and hid behind her flimsy excuse for a curtain until it was gone.”

She added, “I ran to a toilet stall to change asap and organized my thoughts to share with the front desk folks.”

When Phillips spoke about her younger sister, she burst into tears.

“All I could think about was my 5-year-old sister, who I take to this gym this summer to enjoy her waterslides,” she said through sobs. “This is the YMCA where hundreds of children spend their summer afternoons in child care camps. This is the YMCA where my little sister took gymnastics classes. The dressing room should be her safe haven to gossip, shower and change with her friends.”

More from the Phillips address:

“When I asked YMCA management what their policy was regarding transgender people, they confirmed that the man I saw was actually allowed to shower wherever he wanted. A grown man can shower next to a teenage girl at your YMCA location here in Santee. I felt like I did something wrong talking to people at the YMCA. Somehow, a man’s indecent exposure to a minor was an inconvenience to her.

“When my father spoke to the sheriff’s office, they told him never to allow me to shower there again. The YMCA wouldn’t let my father speak to the head of the Santee branch.”

Phillips added that a YMCA officer finally got back to her father and told him that Phillips “was not in any danger at the time of the incident [she] was safe.”

She then asked the councilors a question: “Could you knowingly send an underage girl into a room where there was a naked man and say she was not in danger? That she’s safe? Or, more importantly, that this was correct? ”

Phillips concluded by saying it is “obscene” for privacy policies to be tailored to transgender people while there is a “blatant threat” to security. “Child safety, girls, is on the chopping block,” she added.

Here is Phillips’ address to the City Council:

What does the YMCA have to say?

YMCA of San Diego County gave
KUSI TV his official statement:

We are aware of a situation where two members were in the dressing room at the Santee YMCA earlier this month. The comfort and safety of all our members is our top priority.

As a community-oriented organization, we strive to meet the needs of all people. We recognize that birth and gender identity are sensitive issues. We rely on California subject matter experts, laws and guidelines to ensure our policies are welcoming and respectful of all community members.

As part of this commitment to ensuring everyone is comfortable, we review the layouts of the dressing rooms at all of our association’s facilities. Our goal is to ensure that everyone has access to additional privacy when it is wanted and needed.

The station told the San Diego County Supervisors
officially passed a regulation to redefine what it means to be a “woman”. in May 2022, adding that supervisors Nathan Fletcher, Terra Lawson-Remer and Nora Vargas voted in favor of the ordinance, which “has caused underage girls like Rebecca Phillips to fear for their safety.”

Phillips sat down with KUSI to further discuss the issue. Here’s the clip:

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