Posted on 03/08/2015 1:58:14 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
I don’t know what’s scarier about this story — that a woman lost her membership at Planet Fitness because she complained about a transgender woman in her locker room or the fitness club’s “no judgment zone” policy.
It’s incidents like this that convince me that in the near future, public spaces will be forced by government to build “mens’” rooms, “ladies’” rooms,” and a “choose your sex” room. And the demand for that will not come from transgender people but from straights, who will refuse to put up with the farce that someone can literally “decide” their own sex.
The woman who lost her Planet Fitness membership is genuinely perplexed:
It’s a business that sells itself on being non-judgmental but Planet Fitness has allegedly revoked the membership of a woman for complaining.
Yvette Cormier, a member at the Midland location, says she had no idea what that meant until a few days ago.
“I was stunned and shocked. He looked like a man.. He did not look like a woman,” Cormier said. Cormier is talking about a transgender woman who walked into the woman’s locker room while she was getting undressed. She says she couldn’t believe her eyes.
“This is very unprofessional. This is very scary,” Cormier said.
Not knowing why the person was in the women’s locker room, Cormier said she immediately complained to the front desk and eventually to corporate offices.
“They told me the same thing, that he was allowed in there because that’s the sex he wants to be,” Cormier said.
Cormier said she understands that some men self-identify as women and some women self-identify as men, but said the person looked like a man and that caught her off guard.
Cormier lost her membership for violating the company’s no judgement zone policy.
Moving forward, Cormier said she isn’t concerned with getting her membership back. Her concern now is to warn other women at this gym to make them aware of this policy, because she says Planet Fitness failed to warn her.
The company told TV5 that Cormier’s concerns about the policy regarding gender identity was inappropriate and disruptive by complaining to other members at the gym.
It’s “inappropriate” to worry about a biological man in a woman’s locker room? Pay no attention to that woman with the thing dangling between her legs. She’s harmless…really.
Madness.
Speaking of lunacy, here’s the Planet Fitness statement on the matter:
“Planet Fitness is committed to creating a non-intimidating, welcoming environment for our members. Our gender identity non-discrimination policy states that members and guests may use all gym facilities based on their sincere self-reported gender identity.
In expressing her concerns about the policy, the member in question exhibited behavior that club management deemed inappropriate and disruptive to other members, which is a violation of the membership agreement and as a result her membership was ccanceled”
“Sincere, self-reported gender identity”? So if a sexual predator applies for membership and sincerely self-reports (whatever the hell that means) that despite the presence of male equipment, they are really a woman trapped in a man’s body, they are issued a membership card and allowed to go into the women’s locker room and take their time picking their next victim.
You have to understand the beyond bizarre reasoning behind all of this transgender nonsense.
Several somewhat ambiguous and possibly overlapping definitions can be found for the two terms: transgender and transsexual. Harry Benjamin invented a classification system for transsexuals and transvestites; he called his system the Sex Orientation Scale (SOS). In the SOS, Benjamin assigns transsexuals and transvestites to one of six categories based on their reasons for crossdressing, and the relative urgency of their need (if any) for sex reassignment surgery.[16] Many transsexuals believe that to be a true transsexual, a person needs to have a desire for surgery.[17] However, Benjamin’s moderate intensity “true transsexual” needs either estrogen or testosterone as a “substitute for or preliminary to operation.”[16] There are also people who have had sexual reassignment surgery (SRS), but do not meet the definition of a transsexual,[18][19] while other people do not desire SRS, yet clearly meet Benjamin Scale definition of a “true transsexual”, such as Miriam Rivera.
In addition to the larger categories of transgender and transsexual, there is a wide range of gender expressions and identities which are contrary to the mainstream male-female binary. These include cross dressers, drag queens, drag kings, transvestites, genderqueer, etc. Some people take issue with transsexual because Virginia Charles Prince, who started the magazine Transvestia and built up the cross-dressing organization Tri-Ess, used transgender to distinguish cross-dressers from gay, bisexual and transsexual people.[20] In “Men Who Choose to Be Women,” Prince wrote “I, at least, know the difference between sex and gender and have simply elected to change the latter and not the former.”[21]
The entire idiotic invention is based on the idea that “sex” is biological” but “gender” is a choice. Fine. If you want to self-identify as a neuter, none of my business, go ahead. Just don’t ask anyone else to play along with your fantasy. Why should the overwhelming majority of us who are normal, bread and butter, apple pie men or women and aren’t confused about what our gender be forced by runaway political correctness (and soon, no doubt, the law) to accommodate those who, for whatever reason, have chosen a different means of sexual self-expression? They should accommodate us, not the other way around.
Society should not be turned upside down by this small, subset of people — some of them, almost certainly mentally ill. You can choose to live your life any way you wish, without interference from government or anyone else. But to demand that the overwhelming majority of society change the way they live and give approval to your self-actualized gender identity is madness.
Mental illness is what it is.
Funny, sounds like they JUDGED Miss Cormier.
It is not a “transgender woman,” whatever that is. It is a man. And no amount of intellectual depravity will ever change that.
Crosstraining has been replaced with crossdressing.
Only a Muslim can complain
What would the real men of the greatest generation do if some pervert tried to sneak into the ladies room and get a gander at their girlfriends? That’s how this should’ve been handled, with his blood all over the floor. The next one to come along would think twice.
I think it’s because Planet Fitness doesn’t want gay picketers at their stores. They know the sheep masses won’t complain and those that do they just take away the membership.
It’s pretty simple to me. If you are, in the first place, going to allow males into a women’s bathroom, then they should be ‘former males’ (i.e., had the dangler removal surgery - DRS for short). No exceptions.
I just read three articles on this, & this is the first one that makes any sense. Good L-rd, what in heck is going on with the world?
Make them pay at the cash register. Unconfused men and women should boycott the chain and go elsewhere. Let’s see if the pervert community has enough bucks to keep them in business. If so, then we can have further fragmentation of society.
Remember when pervs needed peep holes and hidden cameras to spy on women? Now they can walk right in.
As if we need ANOTHER headache...
With all of the sexual ambiguity that’s accepted, I’m not comfortable using a dressing room at an exercise establishment. I’m not comfortable about sharing exercise equipment. It’s a little paranoid, for sure, but what’s the point of going to exercise in an environment that’s become uncomfortable?
It just occurred to me: when Planet Fitness’ business does a big dive, because of this transgender business, it’ll cause other businesses to do triple-look before following suit.
Their business should take a dive b/c they’re a horrible “gym.” This incident should just be another proverbial straw.
The other interesting side note is how many transgenders retain the same sexual attraction - AKA, the man who surgically mutilates himself to become a woman, but is now a “lesbian” because it still prefers women.
So a self-identifying woman with male plumbing remains a sexual threat, because of the high odds he/she/it is still sexually attracted to women.
To make it perfectly clear instead of “ man” and “women “ signs they should use “dongle “ “no dongle “ signs.
The only morals that any business has are those that affect it’s bottom line.
They’re catering to the “abnormals” because the abnormals have discovered they can get their way by terrorizing a business.
Until the “normals” put greater pressure on the business to cater to them the businesses will continue to give in to the abnormals.
It’s amazing, isn’t it?
Worrying about “gay picketers” will seem inconsequential if they lose 20% of their customers.
Look at what happened with JC penny. What a philosophy to embrace...
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