A San Francisco YMCA quietly changed its locker-room rules after repeated complaints about a man known as ‘Sammy’ allegedly exposing himself in the women’s changing area, and those new signs appear to have driven him away while leaving women feeling policed and uncomfortable.

San Francisco’s Stonestown Family YMCA adopted new locker-room guidelines after months of pressure from female members who said a ‘trans-identifying’ man made women and children feel unsafe. The rules call for modesty and brief nudity, and members say those signs coincided with the man’s disappearance. The shift has been framed as restoring order, but it also puts the burden back on women to monitor their own behavior.

For years women and families complained about ‘Sammy,’ a ‘trans-identifying’ man who allegedly exposed himself in the female locker room and ignored repeated objections. Management initially resisted admitting there was a problem, prompting petitions, protests, and police reports from upset members. Local coverage framed the situation in sympathetic terms for the man, while many women felt their complaints were minimized or dismissed.

‘Sammy’ is not a woman, and we have a word for his ‘pre-op privates.’ Of course, the policy seems to punish women, too, with the new rules banning all ‘excessive nudity’ in the women’s locker room. Members now face a guideline that treats casual locker-room behavior as something to be policed rather than routine privacy during showering and changing.

The Stonestown Family YMCA has posted new rules preventing the sort of behavior that got Sammy in trouble, prohibiting excessive nudity in the women’s locker room.

Sammy, who’s stood firm for two years despite horrifying women and children, hasn’t been seen since the new rules went into effect.

‘Nudity should be discreet, limited, and brief,’ reads the new flier hanging in the changing room, headlined ‘NEW YMCA LOCKER ROOMS GUIDELINES 2026’.

‘Nudity is permitted only while actively showering. Members are expected to put clothing on or be covered during use of the space outside of showering.’

‘Respect privacy and personal space,’ it continues. ‘Please maintain appropriate distance from others, be mindful of personal space during times of undress, and demonstrate courtesy at all times.’

Susan Pete, a 59-year-old member who was one of Sammy’s most vocal critics, told the Daily Mail that the new rules seem specifically written for Sammy, who has been accused of violating each one of them.

Pete said she’s happy Sammy’s gone, but she and many other members are wondering about a new policy that seems impractical.

‘So what are they going to do – having someone standing around monitoring the situation, saying ‘you’ve been naked too long?” she asked.

‘He’s ruined everything,’ Pete huffed.

The new signs advise women to limit their time and keep nudity ‘discreet, limited, and brief’ even though a locker room is precisely where people shower and change. If management had treated the behavior as misconduct from the start rather than a civil-rights issue to be tiptoed around, members likely would not have endured two years of complaints. Instead the fix ended up putting more rules on women who simply want privacy while using the facility.

Now women are expected to self-regulate in their own locker room, even while the man who caused the complaints has mostly vanished from the scene. That disappearance, conveniently timed with the posting of the rule, suggests the rules did exactly what they were supposed to do without having to confront the underlying policy choices. But it still leaves an uncomfortable truth: the response rehabilitated order without addressing who caused the disorder in the first place.

Women tried everything: multiple meetings with management, a petition signed by more than 100 gym members, protests, and police reports. Still, YMCA management refused to admit there was even a problem.

Now, finally, Stonestown YMCA has posted new restrictive locker-room rules:

“Nudity should be discreet, limited, and brief … ”

And suddenly, the man is nowhere to be seen.

No other Bay Area YMCA appears to have these rules. This policy is targeted purely at the women of Stonestown, who are now being subjected to strange new restrictions because the state of California protects a man’s right to expose himself in the women’s locker room instead of protecting women and children.

Women complained about a naked man in their locker room.

The YMCA responded by policing women.

That pattern is familiar: women raise alarms about men invading private spaces and face pushback, social punishment, or worse, while the disruptive behavior receives sympathetic treatment. Members report being censured by management or shamed online when they speak up, which chills further complaints and discourages pushback. Meanwhile the practical solution posted on a flyer did what years of meetings did not.

Never the men. Only the women. That blunt reality fuels anger and frustration among gym members who simply want basic safety and privacy. The institutional reflex to accommodate identity claims without clear safety protocols creates perverse incentives and erodes trust between members and management.

The trans movement is deeply misogynistic.

Insane.

Yes. He’ll find another gym and do the same thing.

The Community Note is one of the best.

In many other situations, exposing yourself in a locker room would quickly become a criminal matter with registration consequences, but when identity claims intervene the outcome can change. That inconsistency is why many conservative voices argue for clearer rules that protect privacy and safety first, and then address identity issues without sacrificing vulnerable people.

Notice how these rules were enough to get Sammy to leave the YMCA. That tells us all we need to know about why he was there and why he was doing what he did. Women regained the space they need, but only after being forced to accept new constraints and a system that initially ignored their concerns.