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Naked man claiming to be transgender at Planned Fitness arrested for indecent exposure
Christian Post ^ | 04/12/2024 | Samantha Kamman

Posted on 04/12/2024 9:52:24 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

A man who claimed to identify as a woman was arrested for indecent exposure to a minor after he walked around naked in the women’s locker room at a Planet Fitness location and asked a woman to rub lotion on him and take a shower together.

Christopher Allan Miller, 38, was reported to police as harassing women at the Gastonia Planet Fitness in North Carolina prior to entering the locker room.

A woman who called 911 told the dispatcher that the man who entered the locker room was “completely naked.” Miller allegedly asked a woman to shower with him and rub lotion on his body, WSOC-TV reported.

“Yeah, he is still in the bathroom,” the woman told a 911 dispatcher. “It’s a man but he says he identifies as a woman, and he won’t leave the restroom. But he is just walking around showing us his — and he won’t leave.”

Miller was subsequently arrested and charged with indecent exposure to a minor, WSOC-TV added.

On its website, Planet Fitness outlines its “Non-Discrimination Policy,” which states that all gym members “will have access to restroom and locker room facilities that correspond to their self-reported gender identity to the extent permitted by applicable law.”

“At Planet Fitness, the safety of our employees and members is our top priority, and we have zero tolerance for harassment of any kind in our clubs,” McCall Gosselin, chief corporate affairs officer at Planet Fitness, told The Christian Post Friday in response to the incident in Gastonia.

“We took immediate action to ensure the safety of club members, including notifying and working with law enforcement.”

The incident involving the naked man in the women’s locker room comes at a time when Planet Fitness’ trans policy has been the focus of media headlines.

Late last month, Planet Fitness Co-Founder Michael Grondahl criticized the gym franchise's policy of allowing men in women's locker rooms during an interview with Libs of TikTok founder Chaya Raichik.

"Planet Fitness was like another child for me. And I put my heart and soul into building that company, and it's been pretty much destroyed in, you know, it's lost all respect within the country within the last couple of weeks," Grondahl said. "There's no common sense standing behind this."

The interview took place after Alaska Planet Fitness revoked Patricia Silva's membership. Silva went viral after she posted several videos online about her encounter with a trans-identifying man shaving his face in the women’s locker room.

The woman claimed that a 12-year-old girl covered only by a towel was inside the locker room while the man was present. However, Planet Fitness claimed that Silva violated its policies by taking a photograph of the man in the locker room and sharing it on social media.

After revoking Silva's membership, reports surfaced last month that a staffer has since accompanied the man while he uses the women's facilities.

An unnamed friend of Silva's alleged that she saw the same man Silva encountered in the women's locker room. The friend claimed that the Planet Fitness staffer accompanying the man told her that she could go into the stall if she was uncomfortable having a man in the locker room.

The Planet Fitness co-founder questioned the gym's decision to make the man more comfortable instead of women, stating that it's an "extremely dangerous situation." During his interview with Raichik, Grondahl said it's “devastating” to witness what the company has become.

Michael and Mark Grondahl started Planet Fitness in 1992 after they purchased a gym in Dover, New Hampshire. According to Mike Grondahl, the pair started Planet Fitness for people who were "intimidated" by fitness centers, and that was the original intention behind the concept of a “judgment-free zone.”

"And now, you fast forward to what's happening today, and 'judgement-free zone' means that, if you're a man, you can use the women's locker room," Grondahl lamented. "Just insane."


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: genderidentity; lgbt; planetfitness; transgender
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To: CIB-173RDABN

“FACING A BREAKDOWN OF CIVILITY” ????

WE are in the middle of it & it is GROWING every day.


21 posted on 04/13/2024 7:09:07 AM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: Red6
It’s what Planet Fitness asked for.

Exactly. What crime can they possibly charge him with?

Planet Fitness has not only come out publicly and stated men can go into the women's locker room, they've terminated the membership of women who spoke out against it.

This man is going to get paid a lot of money by Planet Fitness and might even demand they terminate the membership of the woman who called police on him.

The municipality will likely pay out as well for a false arrest. Going forward, police departments around the country will refuse to respond to calls involving men in women's bathrooms.

22 posted on 04/13/2024 7:15:48 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: SeekAndFind

If that fella is transgender Planet Fitness could be in a world of hurt with the transgender community and their teams of lawyers motivated to protect transgender rights.

Crazy world out there.


23 posted on 04/13/2024 7:38:29 AM PDT by Racketeer
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To: SeekAndFind

Glad my husband and I built a home gym (it was a little used porch room). It’s paid for itself over the years, membership fees at the gym were rising almost exponentially.

I have no plans to set foot in a commercial gym again, including the YMCA.


24 posted on 04/13/2024 7:47:01 AM PDT by Bon of Babble (You Say You Want a Revolution?)
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To: SeekAndFind
Planet Fitness will be killed by their own notoriety.

They drew a target on their backs.

25 posted on 04/13/2024 7:47:02 AM PDT by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along. )
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To: Salman

Did the perp resemble Joe O’Biden?


26 posted on 04/13/2024 8:01:16 AM PDT by Colt1851Navy (What was wrong with Nixon?)
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To: T.B. Yoits
Just like men competing in women's sports, this bathroom issue is silly.

Why?

Guys piss standing and if you ever go into a male vs. female bathroom you immediately notice a difference in how clean the female bathrooms are. When you let boys into the girls bathrooms, girls are going to have to deal with that when they sit down.

Also, in a gym you have people under 18 and having grown men in the women's bathroom, naked, swinging their dick around, isn't cool.

America is a nation of extreme fads and trends. This is no exception. LGBTQIA (basically all homosexual types of fetishes) are in vogue today and every celebrity, politician and business feels the urge to jump onto the bandwagon making a statement in support off the “cause.”

I do not believe that some of these businesses are really thinking through what that means when they make such policies.

27 posted on 04/13/2024 9:04:19 AM PDT by Red6
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