We All Have Lifting To Do To Make Gyms Safer Spaces

We All Have Lifting To Do To Make Gyms Safer Spaces

The gym should be a happy and safe space, not one where anyone has to worry about experiencing harassment.

A group of teenage boys attacked a trans woman outside a gym in Reykjavík last year. She fled her home country to this country in search of safety, but says she is attacked and harassed daily in Iceland. The woman moved here ten years ago and was granted Icelandic citizenship three years later. She faced a lot of hardship in her home country and came to Iceland in search of safety. The woman does not want to be identified and keeps her nationali…