Former University of Kentucky swimmer Kaitlynn Wheeler said this week that her 16-year-old sister went into the YMCA women’s locker room after practice one day in April “and she witnessed a man changing in her locker room, and obviously, the shock and settlement of that was scary to her. She felt unsafe, so she immediately went and told her head coach. She told him that there was a man changing in their locker room.”
“She was dismissed,” Wheeler said. “She was told that there was nothing that he could do. She and my parents went to the CEO [and] the YMCA board and brought this to them and again, they were told that they couldn’t do anything. They were laughed at. My sister was laughed at and told, ‘You know transgenders have been around a long time, this isn’t new and laughed.’”