Planet Fitness revokes woman's membership after transgender complaint

[polychronopolous]

(CNN)A Michigan woman lost her Planet Fitness membership over the "inappropriate" manner in which she complained about a transgender woman in the locker room, a gym spokeswoman said.

Yvette Cormier's membership was not canceled for simply raising the issue, "as we welcome all feedback from our members," said McCall Gosselin, director of public relations at Planet Fitness Corporate.

Rather, it was the manner in which she expressed her concerns that club management felt was inappropriate, resulting in the cancellation, Gosselin said.

Cormier stands by her actions in a case that has drawn attention to transgender rights.

"This is all new to me. I didn't go out to specifically bash a transgender person that day. I was taken aback by the situation," Cormier told CNN. "This is about me and how I felt unsafe. I should feel safe in there."

The mother of two says she was acting out of concern for her safety and the privacy of other female gym members when she raised the issue on Saturday, February 28.

She went to the front desk after someone who looked like a "man" entered the women's locker room while she was changing.

"I wanted to know why there was a man in the women's locker room," she told CNN. "He looked like a man, and that's what stopped me in my tracks."

She said the front desk employee told her about Planet Fitness' "no-judgment" policy, which allows people to use changing room based on "their sincere, self-reported gender identity."

Unsatisfied, she said she called Planet Fitness' corporate headquarters and heard the same thing.

"That should be something they pointed out when I signed up," she said.

"If you have male parts you don't need to be in the women's locker room. I don't care what you are; I don't care if you're gay lesbian, transgender or transvestite. I am uncomfortable with you as a male in my locker room, in my restroom."

She returned to the gym Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday "to get the word out" to other women that they "let men in the women's locker room," she said.

"Every day I said 'just so you know, there's a man they allow in this locker room and they don't tell you that when you sign up,' " she said.

The next day, she found out that her membership had been canceled.

Cormier said Planet Fitness needs to do a better job of informing members of its policy allowing members to use whichever locker room corresponds with their gender identity, which refers to a person's psychological identification as a man, woman or another gender.

"The manner in which this member expressed her concerns about the policy exhibited behavior that management at the Midland club deemed inappropriate and disruptive to other members, which is a violation of the membership agreement and as a result her membership was canceled," Gosselin said in a statement on behalf of Planet Fitness.

"Planet Fitness is committed to creating a nonintimidating, welcoming environment for our members. Our gender identity nondiscrimination policy states that members and guests may use all gym facilities based on their sincere self-reported gender identity."

LGBT advocates applauded the Planet Fitness policy, saying it was necessary to ensuring the safety and privacy of transgender individuals.

Planet Fitness has the right to allow members to use whichever locker room corresponds with their gender identity, Alison Gill, senior legislative council for the Human Rights Campaign, told MLive.

Even though gender identity is not a protected class under Michigan anti-discrimination laws, transgender individuals still have the right to use whichever bathroom they feel comfortable using, attorney Jay Kaplan with the ACLU of Michigan's LGBT Project told MLive.

"A transgender woman would be much more at risk for her safety if she had to use the men's bathroom," he said.

Cormier does not see it that way. But she agrees with LGBT advocates on one potential solution: unisex, single-stall bathrooms.

[Fortress]

Individual has a cock and balls and was born a male, that person should not, under any circumstances, be in a women's locker room.

This world is full-on wacko.

All this gender-identity this ... transgender that ... gender-neutral this ...

Utter horseshit and the hallmarks of a world gone bonkers.

 

[el numero uno]

Is this a wyhi thread?

[polychronopolous]

Individual has a cock and balls and was born a male, that person should not, under any circumstances, be in a women's locker room.

This world is full-on wacko.

All this gender-identity this ... transgender that ... gender-neutral this ...

Utter horseshit and the hallmarks of a world gone bonkers.

 

The lady who felt uncomfortable with having a man in the locker room complained to management and SHE had her membership revoked instead of the dude!!  

[Andy Griffin]

For those who say it is wrong to hate...this situation is proof that you are full of shit.

[WalterWhite]

Individual has a cock and balls and was born a male, that person should not, under any circumstances, be in a women's locker room.

This world is full-on wacko.

All this gender-identity this ... transgender that ... gender-neutral this ...

Utter horseshit and the hallmarks of a world gone bonkers.

 

!!!

[Bevo]

Chris Cormier's sister?

[inside you]

The lady who felt uncomfortable with having a man cock and balls in the locker room complained to management and SHE had her membership revoked instead of the dude!!  Shocked Huh

 

 

 

[SOMEPARTS]

We are truly in end times.

[TestDummy]

Fuck Planet Fitness, one of my friends used to go there and he said they came and told him not to "grunt" while worknig out that it was disturbing other members lol

[Dave D]

LOL! I know this gym!

 The good news for the mother of two is there's a real gym a mile down the road and a decent community center. I'm going to start visiting the woman's room in all planet fatness e's across the nation.

Updates pending.

[The Scott]

I suppose one doesn't need a pussy to go in the women's locker room but you damn sure have to be one to join that dive.

Libtards suck.

[Wiggs]

Welcome to hell.

[pedro01]

"She said the front desk employee told her about Planet Fitness' "no-judgment" policy, which allows people to use changing room based on "their sincere, self-reported gender identity.""

So let me get this straight?

I can go to Planet Fitness, claim I identify myself as a female and go sit in the womens changing room for a few hours?

Sounds like a good deal to me.

[polychronopolous]

LOL! I know this gym!

 The good news for the mother of two is there's a real gym a mile down the road and a decent community center. I'm going to start visiting the woman's room in all planet fatness e's across the nation.

Updates pending.

Just bide your time and wait til the hot chick with the really big tits finishes her workout...throw on a wig and a dress....head on down to the women's locker room and enjoy the scenery!

[muscleman-2013]

Individual has a cock and balls and was born a male, that person should not, under any circumstances, be in a women's locker room.

This world is full-on wacko.

All this gender-identity this ... transgender that ... gender-neutral this ...

Utter horseshit and the hallmarks of a world gone bonkers.

 

Agreed.  The woman is completely right to feel threatened.  I would like to see her successfully sue Planet Fitness in this case.  They are endangering women's safety and trying to bully the women into silence.

[Voice of Doom]

I don't understand this comment "A transgender woman would be much more at risk for her safety if she had to use the men's bathroom," he said.

Why would their safety be more at risk?  Because men are inherent dangerous and women aren't? Because men are all potential rapists?  Sounds like more feminist propaganda to me.

[bentone]

I mentioned this yesterday at work and had two people defend the transgender wacko. This world is going to shit!

[muscleman-2013]

I mentioned this yesterday at work and had two people defend the transgender wacko. This world is going to shit!

Yeah lets see how much they defend him if he is going to share the toilet with their kids.  Just typical fuckin hypocrytes.

[polychronopolous]

I mentioned this yesterday at work and had two people defend the transgender wacko. This world is going to shit!

It's a strange time we live in isn't it?

It would be interesting to see how Planet Fitness would handle this situation there were 2 or 3 of these types in every women's locker room rather than just one isolated incident.

[Marty Champions]

the woman lets wang insert in her vag but cant deal with it in the locker room?

[polychronopolous]

the woman lets wang insert in her vag but cant deal with it in the locker room?

True but there are girls that are high school age who change in those locker rooms.

It's a very slippery slope Planet Fitness is going down.

[Purge_WTF]

I don't understand this comment "A transgender woman would be much more at risk for her safety if she had to use the men's bathroom," he said.

Why would their safety be more at risk?  Because men are inherent dangerous and women aren't? Because men are all potential rapists?  Sounds like more feminist propaganda to me.

 Precisely. P.C. Liberalism run amok.

[Croatch]

Individual has a cock and balls and was born a male, that person should not, under any circumstances, be in a women's locker room.

This world is full-on wacko.

All this gender-identity this ... transgender that ... gender-neutral this ...

Utter horseshit and the hallmarks of a world gone bonkers.

 

Spot on.  30 years ago would this be in the news?  Cutting off your dick is a cool hobby, but don't wonder when people disagree with that choice...and yes, that's a choice.

[bears]

I mentioned this yesterday at work and had two people defend the transgender wacko. This world is going to shit!

they're simply the product of conditioning.  we're being turned into autobots.  it doesn't have to make sense.  it just has to fit into the rhetoric that tv and radio is teaching us all to use.