Chalk up another win for team commonsense after 82-year-old Julie Jaman won a $65,000 settlement because she refused to be quiet about a man being in her women’s locker room and was subsequently banned from using her local YMCA pool in Washington.
In a statement from the Center for American Liberty, the non-profit group that defends the civil liberties of Americans, said Jaman’s settlement was a “major victory for free speech and civil liberties.”
“Julie Jaman has reached a $65,000 settlement in her lawsuit against the City of Port Townsend and the Olympic Peninsula YMCA after being permanently banned from the Mountain View Pool for expressing concerns about men in the women’s locker room,” the statement read.
“This case was never just about one woman being banned from a publicly owned pool, it was about the fundamental right of every American to speak truth without fear of retaliation,” Mark Trammell, CEO of the Center for American Liberty, said. “Julie Jaman bravely stood her ground, endured attacks on her character, and today’s settlement affirms that government officials cannot silence dissenting voices through intimidation or retribution.”
🚨BREAKING: 82-year-old Julie Jaman wins $65K settlement after being banned from her local YMCA pool for objecting to men in the women’s locker room.
— Center for American Liberty (@Liberty_Ctr) July 1, 2025
We're proud to officially announce this HUGE win. Free speech isn’t dead and we’re here to prove it! pic.twitter.com/lCNwjrcA4j
Speaking following her victory, Jaman said she “never imagined that expressing concerns about the safety and privacy of women and girls would lead to me being shunned and banned. I’m grateful that justice has been served and that my voice was heard. This is a victory for common sense, women’s rights, and the right to speak the truth.”
As RedState reported, Jaman made headlines in August 2022 when she talked about how shocked she was to find a biological man wearing a woman’s bathing suit in the women’s locker room of her local YMCA. The person claimed to identify as a female, and thus, woke policies in the town allowed the biological male in the women’s locker room.
[O]n Tuesday, July 26, 2022, [Julie] was swimming when the…aquatics manager, Rowen DeLuna, told her that a group of children were going to use her lane. [She]…went to the women’s showers. There are no private showers. They are all clustered in a common area that requires users to step into and out of the showers in the view of others. The light curtains on each shower stall do not provide much of a shield from the eyes of others. One can see out as well as in.
While lathered up in the shower, [Julie] heard a…low male voice. She saw a male in a woman’s swimsuit very close… Julie says he was “looking at the little girls as they were taking off their suits.” She remembers about four little girls being in the room.
[She] says she was shocked. “There were gaps in the curtain, and there I was — naked, with soap and water on me — and this guy, right there very close to me.”
READ MORE: Report: Naked 80-Year-Old Protests a Biological Male in Her YMCA Shower, Gets Banned for Bigotry
What was even more shocking was the response she got from her local Y, which accused her of discrimination when she reported that the man was in there and then banned her from using the pool.
Eventually, she filed a lawsuit that “asserted that city officials and YMCA staff violated Jaman’s constitutional rights when they banned her from speaking out about safety concerns involving young girls,” the press release noted.
“The case drew national attention after Jaman, 82, was ejected from the facility she had used for over three decades following her objection to a male who identifies as female observing minors in a female-designated locker room,” it added.
The press release went on:
Under the terms of the settlement, Ms. Jaman will receive $65,000, including legal fees paid to the Center for American Liberty, which represented her. The City also agreed to remove certain information about Ms. Jaman from its website, further underscoring the baselessness of the actions taken against her.
As wonderful as this news is, Jaman, who had used her local pool for more than three decades before the ban, is still prohibited from using it as part of the settlement.
In the release from the City of Port Townsend, it read:
There is no change of status to the Plaintiff’s access to OPYMCA facilities. This includes a permanent ban from all facilities owned or operated by the OPYMCA, and the Plaintiff agrees not to knowingly seek any further membership or entry at any facility owned or operated by the OPYMCA.
Booooo!! Well, I guess it’s one massive step forward for commonsense but one small step backward because wacko leftists still run Washington state.
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