Appears to be a lotta Carlotta, too.
Posted on 04/02/2015 11:55:16 AM PDT by doug from upland
A Michigan woman's gym membership was revoked because she refused to stop complaining about a transgender patron.
According to Michigan Live, the incident started when a Planet Fitness member named Yvette Cormier went to use the women's gym's locker room at the Midland location.
"I was blocked, because a man was standing there," Cormier told Michigan Live. "It freaked me out because why is a man in here?"
Cormier sought out a gym employee to complain, but was told that members are allowed to use whatever locker room they want to, based on the gender they identify themselves as, ABC News reports:
"And then he said, 'We've had lots of complaints about him but we told him to go change in a stall,'" Cormier said. "He said, 'If you're uncomfortable with that you can wait until he's done in there,'" she said. "I stood back and said, 'How about he waits until I'm done in the women's locker room. Or get a unisex bathroom.' He asked if I would like to talk to the manager and I said, 'I'm calling corporate.'
Cormier then complained to the Planet Fitness corporate office but got a similar response. She said the company told her the gym was a "no judgment zone" and they would not bar transgender members from using the locker rooms of their choice.
Cormier returned to the gym last week, reportedly telling other women at the gym about the incident. She told ABC News Planet Fitness contacted her and said she was "making people upset" by talking about the incident to other patrons at the gym.
"That's my whole point," she said. "I'm telling them and warning them because you are not doing that. You allow men in there, and we are appalled by it."
On Thursday, Planet Fitness revoked her membership from the gym, releasing a statement about their policies and addressing Cormier's actions in the wake of her complaint:
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. A corporation standing up for the gender identity rights of one of its customers? Is it Christmas already?
A trans woman who believes she is the target of Cormier's complaint came forward Sunday, telling Michigan Live she believes she is the person who Cormier saw that day. Carlotta Sklodowska said she only used the locker room to hang up her coat and purse.
Sklodowska said she asked about the locker room policy regarding transgender individuals before entering the women's locker room. "You use the locker room that corresponds with how you are dressed," she said the Planet Fitness employee told her. LGBT activists have applauded the gym's decision, calling the policy an issue of safety.
> I’d go with XX or XY. XXY can pick.
I'm with TexasFreeper2009 -- go with the body parts you can see. I don't foresee chromosome testing stations in rest rooms. But if some guy pulls out his dong in the women's room, that's pretty obvious.
And in cases where you're not sure, maybe use the tried-and-true Crocodile Dundee Party Technique For Identifying Transvestites. If you've seen the movie, you know what I mean... :)
Appears to be a lotta Carlotta, too.
That’s the irony. They decide if you are trans which is a form of bigotry.
Can you imagine the backlash if a white woman decided she “identified” as a black woman and demanded to be treated as such? i.e. affirmative action?
it would be even worse if an old, ugly white guy like myself identified as a young black woman...
Its just fair to everyone, when you think about it.
What’s really the issue here is... those with vajaja’s dont want to see those with winkies... it’s that simple.
Call yourself whatever you wish, but use the room that matches you body parts.
That isn’t the issue.
How long will planet homo last if most of their women membership quits.
From a strit business sense it makes no sense to piss off 98% of your client base. I know they won’t lose 98% but they will sure lose more than 2%.
No, of course "the issue" is much larger and troublesome than simply who uses which facilities.
But the "bathroom question" is a big deal for transsexuals for obvious reasons, and some are quite frightened by it. Others see it as a battlezone in which they must prevail, hence all this trouble.
My feeling is that unless and until a person voluntarily undergoes surgery to mutilate their genitalia to look like those of the other sex, they haven't earned the right to call themselves the other sex. Cross-dressing doesn't do it, no matter how "sincere" it might be.
As far as I'm concerned, "sincerity" begins with a knife and no turning back. Short of that, they can STFU and use the parts God gave them in a room suited for those parts.
Of course, as in all such things, points of view differ, and YMMV.
That’s a man, baby!
Geez, and I just had lunch. So much for that sandwich.
What in God's green Earth makes a man think that if he puts on a dress, he looks like a woman, much less an attractive one?
You want to be shocked? read the postings to the story by the Leftist insane people at the original story. These people are out of their minds.
NEVERMIND YOUR RIGHT TO UNDRESS IN PRIVACY!
THE HOMO AGENDA MUST PREVAIL
Barney Frank.
It looks like michelle Obama to me.
Sounds like it.
That thought doesn't come from God's green Earth. That thought comes straight out of Hell.
Planet Fitness should be on the boycott list too, I mean personcott
Haha you are right about that. I wouldn’t dream of joining Planet Fitness if they let men in the women’s room. Sorry, call me old fashioned, but I dare to think I’m with the majority of women on this one.
True-—it is forcing mental illness and pathology on normal people. If successful, all normal people (rational Christians) will be medicated and silenced by force of Law (Just Laws and regulations LOLOLOL) so all children will grow up to believe that Slavery is Freedom and Up is Down like the little harem boys of Afghanistan.
This goes back further than the Fichte plan of 1810-——where “snow is black” and there is no possibility of Free Will (choice). We will be totally controlled—Communism.
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