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.
We got any woman on here willing to wear a burqah and carry a scimitar underneath their clothing in case one of the false LGBT’ers makes a move?all they’d have to do is pull the scimitar out and hold it like they mean it Lorena Bobbit style and the freak would run out of there...
First: CW-II.
Second: The Guillotine.
One guess on whose head bounce will have the most viewers.
” Planet Fitness is committed to creating a non-intimidating, welcoming environment for our members.”
But not for this woman and all those like her. Amazing that they would put out a statement like that with a straight face.
Don’t get me started about Planet Fatness....
1. No dumbbells over 50lbs
2. No free barbells.
3. A 2 plate (200 lb) limit on Smith Machines
4. A prohibition on deadlifts, clean and jerks, snatches, thrusters, extreme bodyweight workouts, burpees, pullups, and other real exercises; workout routines such as CrossFit and p90x are banned by name.
5. You can’t even breathe heavy
6. Set down a dumbbell hard or breath too heavily and an alarm goes off. Also don’t sweat too much in the free weight area.
7. Sponsors “The Biggest Loser” but 90% of the exercises on the show would get you kicked out of Planet Fitness...
“3 - Males and Females who think they are not what they really are
4 - Others”
3 and 4 are located in a doghouse close to the gutter, right?
Good night! Is that a pic of the “man” being catered to?
Picadilly is still in operation... At least there is one in Montgomery, Alabama I was at a few weeks ago.
And with no conservatives to restrain their communist, totalitarian impulses, the socialist laws they would pass would drive out many businesses run by social liberals who still liked to make money.
The bottom parasite class would demand that the wealthy libs share their money i.e. literally hand over most of their earnings to the parasites. Collapse would be inevitable.
“Are you sincere?”
“Oh, yes! absolutely!”
Facebook says you need 58 restrooms.
You’re forgetting the chopadicoffame crowd. Where do they go?
Everybody’s feeling, but NOBODY’S THINKING
that’s the problem ffffolks.
I wonder how they'd deal with nudists working out.
I need to wash out my eyes after that one! EWWWW!
Most publicity that a business gets...even if slightly negative....always helps business. In this case? I’d take a guess that they didn’t just get rid of one customer....at least twenty to thirty will walk in over the next week and quit. As friends and associates of those twenty observe....more will quit. So, they probably lost a quarter to half of their clients over the next four months to this one episode.
This gym, I’ll predict...either shuts down by Christmas, or is renamed/repackaged.
EYEBLEACH NOW!
There will be plenty of rapes and child molestations from this current “bathroom privileges” fever sweeping the nation. Unfortunately, LGBTBBQ rights trump everything else, so these victims will be swept under the rug or outright shunned for daring to complain.
Sue the BASTIDS.
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