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.
As it should if it wants to treat customers like that. But - it should be up to the business to decide. Same goes with if they want to allow smokers in, blacks, or whatever.
If they want to be idiots and lose business because they won’t serve someone - that is their fault. But it should be their decision. And who knows - maybe they’ll end up with all of the cross-dressing body building clientele for the entire metro area!
If ALL the straight people would stay away, this nonsense would stop overnight.
Good luck with trying to stay in business depending on the LBGT crowd exclusively.
The famous "lunk alarm," hallmark of a Judgment-Free Zone.
68 Year Old Man Kicked Out Of Planet Fitness For Wearing Pro-life T-shirt Despite.....
Planet Fitness breaks its own rule by asking a pro-life man to leave
What’s shocking is how quickly this insanity has been adopted as the norm.
Should just put XX or XY on the doors. Can’t change your genes.
Both, it would seem.
The sad part is that they probably don't have a clue about the hypocrisy/irony of their statement.
It all feels so...”silence of the lambs”-ish. Very creepy! I can practically hear him whispering “it puts the lotion on its skin...”
I’m a lesbian trapped in a mans body was a joke.
Now it’s a protected status.....
“”They have that right,” she said.”
But a Christian baker or florist has no right to refuse to serve homos getting “married”.
There is no such thing as a transgender person.
Anyone who claims to be a “transgendered woman” is a PERVERT!
Just open up the girls’ and Womens’ showers to these creeps because being a PERVERT is now a protected status, and being opposed to PERVERTS looking at you in the shower is now considered a violation of PERVERT rights.
PERVERTS have a right to oogle you in the shower. You don’t have a right to complain.
It’s scary that there are people who actually think like that.
I think you might have stumbled upon one of the real reasons this insanity is becoming more pervasive.
Perhaps The International Brotherhood Of Plumbers Cracks really is promoting these different sexual identities to create a demand for more restrooms which translates into more work for their members.
(no pun intended by the use of the word "member")
Not allowed to complain. Girls in schools will soon be suspended for complaining too
Bump
“Problem is some of these whack jobs get dicks cut off - or sewn on.”
Still, I think sewn-on dicks better belong in Male restrooms than Female restrooms. Don’t know about dickless-wonders though, wouldn’t think’d cause too much trouble in Female restrooms.
The “dick test” is atill simpler, quicker, and cheaper than, say, genetic testing for a Y-chromosome and perhaps slightly more bullet-proof.
“It all feels so...”silence of the lambs”-ish. Very creepy! I can practically hear him whispering “it puts the lotion on its skin...”
Aaaaah!
In all seriousness, it seems we have more and more of these walking freak shows walking among us. It’s a symptom of something far worse coming down the road, IMHO.
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