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SF bathhouse review bombed after policy restricting trans access sparks outcry
SF Gate ^ | March 7, 2025 | By Olivia Hebert

Posted on 03/07/2025 2:45:23 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

A San Francisco bathhouse’s policy to restrict access to transgender individuals on select nights is now under investigation by the San Francisco Human Rights Commission.

Russian-style spa Archimedes Banya announced earlier this month that its designated women’s only night would now be limited to those who were assigned the sex at birth, with the spa’s operators claiming the change was intended to create a “phallus-free environment” for patrons from religious and cultural backgrounds to ensure their comfort.

The policy, first posted to the bathhouse’s website, sparked immediate backlash. Customers and members of the Bay Area’s transgender and intersex communities criticized the move.

By Monday, the bathhouse attempted to ameliorate the situation by announcing a revision to its initial policy on social media, introducing two separate women’s events both to held every two months: Inclusive Women’s Night, which the bathhouse said is “open to all individuals who identify as women, regardless of sex assigned at birth,” and Cultural & Religious Women’s Night, restricted to those assigned female at birth and intended to accommodate religious or cultural traditions that observe a “female-only environment.” A similar policy has also been applied to the spa’s men-only nights, with one event limiting access to individuals assigned male at birth and another inclusive night.

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TOPICS: Local News; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: culturewar; homosexualagenda; perverts; sanfrancisco
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1 posted on 03/07/2025 2:45:23 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

they are just a bunch of dildos


2 posted on 03/07/2025 2:47:06 PM PST by algore
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

can we volunteer all those trannies to join Ukrain’s military?


3 posted on 03/07/2025 2:48:56 PM PST by NativeSon ( *> <*)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
File under Things Are Tough All Over.
4 posted on 03/07/2025 2:53:10 PM PST by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I think the next earthquake is due.


5 posted on 03/07/2025 2:54:03 PM PST by bigdaddy45
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Oh good...a cat fight...

Popcorn anyone?


6 posted on 03/07/2025 2:57:08 PM PST by rottndog (What comes after America?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“assigned the sex at birth”...“phallus-free environment”

HOW did such insane degenerates get so powerful so fast?


7 posted on 03/07/2025 3:06:37 PM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Seriously? SF bathhouses? Seriously?


8 posted on 03/07/2025 3:07:23 PM PST by Just mythoughts (Psalm 2. Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Dark world problems.


9 posted on 03/07/2025 3:11:37 PM PST by VTenigma (Conspiracy theory is the new "spoiler alert")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Let’s all agree to boycott that bathhouse, I for one, will never set foot in it.


10 posted on 03/07/2025 3:20:58 PM PST by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

11 posted on 03/07/2025 3:24:10 PM PST by PGR88
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To: Organic Panic

“HOW did such insane degenerates get so powerful so fast?”

It has to be coming from way above any single government. Almost every Western country is afflicted with this, state censorship, and unfettered migration. All beginning at the same time.

There’s nothing organic about it.


12 posted on 03/07/2025 3:29:22 PM PST by Dalberg-Acton
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I just don’t understand the “social norms”, if you will, of the bath house.

If everyone wears swimsuits, there wouldn’t be a problem, would there? Apparently there are nudist environments there, at least sometimes? And on ladies night, apparently some would stick out as being in the wrong place, even if they identify as women?

What a crazy situation.


13 posted on 03/07/2025 3:31:30 PM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I always bathe at home.


14 posted on 03/07/2025 3:43:39 PM PST by Southside_Chicago_Republican (God save the United States!)
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To: Dalberg-Acton

Excellent post.

I was challenged here for discussing treason—the argument being that treason requires foreign involvement in nefarious activities.

The Trans movement is an international movement—and those who push it are guilty of treason for that exact reason.


15 posted on 03/07/2025 3:47:47 PM PST by cgbg (The Democrat Party is a criminal enterprise.)
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To: NativeSon

Plenty on this site that need to be shipped over to Ukraine.


16 posted on 03/07/2025 3:50:54 PM PST by Bikkuri (I am proud to be a PureBlood.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego


"some would stick out"


Great pun you got there.. ;^)
17 posted on 03/07/2025 3:52:25 PM PST by Bikkuri (I am proud to be a PureBlood.)
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To: ansel12
I also never entered a bathhouse, however as a Realtor, I have cautiously enter some really near sheathouses!
18 posted on 03/07/2025 4:14:13 PM PST by shadeaud (God gave us the free will and intelligence to choose right from wrong. Use it or lose it!D)
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To: cgbg

Thank you!


19 posted on 03/07/2025 5:01:37 PM PST by Dalberg-Acton
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
...intended to accommodate religious or cultural traditions that observe a “female-only environment.

Hmm...what does that mean, don't bring yer wiener to a Muzzie party?

20 posted on 03/07/2025 5:08:28 PM PST by Billthedrill
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