Posted on 04/09/2026 6:15:53 AM PDT by Libloather
Men will be barred from using parts of an on-campus gym at the University of Southern California under a new initiative to make women and non-binary gym-goers feel more comfortable while working out.
The Student Assembly for Gender Empowerment (SAGE) pushed for the new rules in partnership with the Lyon Center, a recreational facility controlled by the university.
SAGE describes itself as a “programming assembly and intersectional feminist organization under the student government, committed to uplifting all voices oppressed by the patriarchy.”
The plan excludes men from working out in portions of the Robinson Room at the Lyon Center on Mondays and Wednesdays from 10 to 11 a.m., according to the Daily Trojan student newspaper.
Student Mengze Wu, a senior majoring in neuroscience, the moved is meant to address her discomfort working out in “men-dominated.”
“My past experiences with being in enclosed spaces where it’s very men-dominated have never been super pleasant,” Wu told the Daily Trojan. “There tends to be this problem where I don’t get to take up a lot of space unless I really assert myself. And even then, I face a lot of hindrance in feeling completely comfortable.”
Jana Alnajjar, a sophomore majoring in philosophy, politics, and law who acts as SAGE’s advocacy liaison, told the publication that she’s “heard from multiple women and non-binary students who want to be involved in different workout spaces but don’t feel comfortable being at the gym.”
“Whether it’s being approached regularly or feeling judged, over time that discomfort leads students to stop going to the gym altogether,” she added.
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How many are comfortable getting a short-arm inspection every time they open a few gym doors? Whatever happened to unisex?
Socialism at its best.
California free range for all non normal animals.
So as a biological male, if I want to work out on Monday from 10-11AM all I have to do is identify as non-binary? Maybe put on a wig?
What are they going to do? Call me a liar?
I feel feminist today. You misogynist.
LOL, my right to be a narcissist doesn’t end where your feelings of inadequacy start... work harder
I may be paranoid but at least I’m never lonely.
I hope so!!! Men and women both need their own spaces.
“sounds Illegal , sue her/it”
Sounds like the way blacks were treated 100 years ago in the South. They had to sit in the back of the bus. Men are the new Blacks. In this case the women say they “feel uncomfortable” with men in the same room. I’m sure there were many white southern (and northern) racists who just didn’t feel comfortable with a Black person in the same part of the bus.
yes and fit women had to have their bellies covered.

Men are second class citizens in modern society. Women have all rights, men get nothing. Soon, boys in high school will be punished when schools ban boys’ sport to meet social justice warriors.
But they bathrooms are wide-open
They're going to first have to define what a man is. That could get politically tricky......
It's easy enough to cheat one's way in by claiming to BE non-binary.
Which brings up the thought, how does the biologist define and establish non-binary?
Back in my day it was the broads that were banned. The Iron Works. St. Pete, FL. It was a serious powerlifting and bodybuilding gym. And the owner didn’t want some guy bench pressing a Mack Truck to get distracted by some ho walking by in a thong and spandex.
The Student Assembly for Gender Empowerment (SAGE) = Gibberish
The Godless Reprobate LGBTQ+ Left ⬅️
intends to Feminize the MALES
all around the World 🌍🌎🌏
That Old Serpent 🐍 Called
the Devil and Satan is working
overtime to try and bring down
Western Society to the level of
Sodom and Gomorrah (Genesis Chapter 19)
This Metastasizing Cancer of LGBTQ+
is one of his powerful tools to
Destroy Normal Society
And the Democrat Goats 🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐
are always trying to help the Devil
Pervert and Destroy Traditional America
Enforcement of this policy requires SoCal to provide its definition of “man” so one may determine in there are any men in the protected gym areas.
There are women only gyms for conservative women, who just want to do some exercise.
Unfortunately, they have been prime target for trans.
Many had to shut down.
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