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.
Ping.
Note to self....never join Pla-nut Fit-nuts.
> 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?
It won’t be a “judgment free zone” if a woman gets assaulted by a man posing as one of thise freaks. She’ll have a hell of a judgment filed against the CEO of Planet Fitness. They should should just rename the business to LGBT Freak Fitness Club. Wonder how long their doors will be open after that...
My father KO’d a homo in a restaurant years ago when he put his hand on him. Good times.
Problem is some of these whack jobs get dicks cut off - or sewn on.
Yes,that's the logical response.But in at least some states/jurisdictions such a suit would be laughed out of court."Transgenderphobia",don't you know! The person filing the suit would surely get death threats,demonstrations outside their house and other forms of threats/harassment.
Great point.
She feels Planet Fitness could provide a third locker room for transgender people
OR she she could quit the place.. go where decent people go...
unless shes indecent as well.. then who cares..
Plumbers everywhere give your plan two thumbs up!
I was thinking that very thing. Imagine what the signs on the door would look like though.
Wait till the other shoe drops. This (real) woman is now at risk of losing her job because of her intolerance. God forbid the Inquisition finds out that she doesn’t bow down for gay marriage.
We really need to have a split much like India and Pakistan. The Left would have the equivalent of Pakistan, even though they may have the “money centers”, their money would run out because they are preoccupied with their cultural Marxism. Leftyland would finally collapse when more time and effort are spend during “struggle sessions” than innovation and entrepreneurship. Let them believe that companies don’t create jobs, government creates jobs. When it all crashes down on them, we tell them “tough $h!+”.
Because the “normal” people are meek, and do not raise in your face hell like the lesbians, homo’s and transgendered people do.
But he's just a grunt....no offense!
Well there is lots more of us normies what we need to do is stop patronizing these freak friendly places
“In October of 2011, an Albuquerque Planet Fitness refused to let a New Mexico Muslim woman wear her religious head covering while she tried to work out. After signing a two-year contract with the gym, she was turned away and was told the head covering didn’t meet the company’s dress code. The woman’s lawsuit, filed under the New Mexico Human Rights Act and the Unfair Practices Act, alleged that Planet Fitness illegally based the decision to deny her access upon her religion, or alternatively upon her race, as she is black, and that the gym had no legitimate or non-pretextual reason to deny her entry. Planet Fitness denied all violations stating that the Muslim woman failed to participate in good faith and that the company has legitimate business reasons for its practice as well as measures to prevent discrimination.”
“In April of 2014 a pregnant woman claimed she was told to cover up or leave a South Carolina Planet Fitness. According to the woman she was working out at the gym in a tank top she’d worn on the day she joined. She was approached by a staff member who said she was in violation of the gym’s dress code - her belly was hanging out due to her being about 19 weeks pregnant. She was contacted by the franchise owner soon after the incident; the first phone call was “apologetic,” but the one that followed he said, “You were in violation, we gave you a t-shirt, there’s nothing left to talk about.””
Sorce: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_Fitness
Picky about how a person dresses, but not in the locker room where the plumbing parts are exposed. I was searching to see if the two brothers who started Planet Fitness are activists in some way...
I would work out in the junk yard before going to Planet Fitness. LA fitness is OK and head and shoulders above the old Bally’’s.
All normal people just need to pack their bags and leave Planet Perversity. See if the perverts can keep them afloat.
Just wow!
A loony tunes world.
Rom 1:25...For they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.
26For this reason God gave them over to degrading passions; for their women exchanged the natural function for that which is unnatural, 27and in the same way also the men abandoned the natural function of the woman and burned in their desire toward one another, men with men committing indecent acts and receiving in their own persons the due penalty of their error.
Etc etc.
You can tell by the angle of the dangle.
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