Posted on 03/06/2015 6:07:03 PM PST by Roos_Girl
A Midland County woman's gym membership was canceled after she refused to stop telling fellow gym members "a man" was using the woman's locker room.
Yvette Cormier said the incident occurred Saturday, Feb. 28, when she entered the women's locker room at the Planet Fitness location at 701 Joe Mann Boulevard in Midland.
"I was blocked, because a man was standing there," Cormier said. "It freaked me out because, why is a man in here?"
Cormier said an employee at the front desk told her that the individual identifies as a woman.
After taking her complaints to Planet Fitness' corporate office, Cormier said she was told that the gym was a "no judgement zone" and they would not tell the individual in question to stay out of the women's locker room. The person has not been identified.
The slogan "Judgement Free Zone" is regularly used by Planet Fitness.
A statement released by McCall Gosselin, public relations director for Planet Fitness, states that members can use the locker room corresponding with their personal gender identity.
Cormier disagrees with the policy and feels it's a safety issue.
According to Cormier, she returned to the gym each day between Monday and Thursday. While there, Cormier said she told women in the locker room about the individual she observed in the bathroom the weekend before.
Cormier said she then got a call from Planet Fitness' corporate office telling her that she was violating their "no judgement" policy. She says they asked if she was going to stop talking to other women in the locker room and she said she would not.
Cormier said the representative told her she was no longer welcome at the gym.
The statement released by McCall confirms that Cormier's actions led to the cancellation of her membership, though the statement does not go into details of the situation.
Here is a look at the statement, in full:
"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. 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 cancelled."
"I feel it's kind of one sided," Cormier said about the policy. "I feel like I am the one who is being punished."
She feels Planet Fitness could provide a third locker room for transgender people.
The women's locker room offers private changing stalls and includes bathroom stalls with doors.
According to Alison Gill, senior legislative council for the Human Rights Campaign, the gym is within its rights to create a policy that welcomes members to use the locker room corresponding with their gender identity.
"They have that right," she said.
"Lady, you're out."
*rips recently regrown hair out*
They’d actually need to add two locker rooms but pervs don’t want that option
Just tell these people that you are a Lesbian trapped in a man’s body. Then demand entrance to the women’s showers.
The business is dedicated to be sure everyone is welcomed there. But apparently they have no concern for normal people being welcomed here.
No need to add two locker rooms, just knock the wall out between the men’s and women’s and make it one big community locker room. Might as well.
I once went to a restaurant, now defunct I believe, called Picadilly. Loved their tray line food.
But I went to the restroom. I am a woman. When in the stall I looked up to see, peering in at me through the wide gap between the door of the stall and the post it hung on, (about an inch) a man, dressed as a woman.
He saw me, our eyes met, he ran out.
I believe he dressed as a woman to get into the woman’s restroom and peek. Was quite frightening.
I mean, it was really a peeping Tom. What is to protect women from this?
I’m glad that Planet Fitness can decide who it wants as a customer. Too bad that bakeries can’t do the same.
Seriously???? Wow...sincere, self reported gender identity? Makes every adolescent fantasy I ever had come true...
So a man who wants to ogle a bunch of women can just say “I’m one of you”.
Excuse me while I throw up. The most vile and despicable behavior is now tolerated if not encouraged, through “Judgment free zones”. All I can say is that judgment will come.
I wonder what Planet Fitness’s liability will be if there is an attack or an incident. Do all members have to sign a wavier of liability, for instance?
What are the other women in the locker room doing?
They need four rest rooms and locker rooms
1 - Males
2 - Females
3 - Males and Females who think they are not what they really are
4 - Others
This is the way it is now. The normal people are $h!t on. The abnormal ones have complete power over the normal ones.
“Lady you’re out.” At least they knew what she is. Market to freaks, and kick out those who arent, and a company will go broke because normal people vastly outnumber the oddities of “choice.”
Cheaper to exercise at home. Plus more sanitary. One doesn’t know what someone has left on an exercise equipment!
That’s America-2015 for you. Whether the government, the corporate world, the military, the culture... the freaks and the perverts rule. You must bow down to them and their degeneracy, or be punished or be purged.
America has truly gone stark raving mad. A sick, deviant nation, wallowing in moral rot.
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