The woman is an Orthodox Jewish woman, the same as my own daughter. For those who think she wanted to wear only a skirt, you are quite mistaken. These women always wear dark leggings with a skirt. They do not pose a problem with gym machinery.
This woman had been a member of the gym system since 2011, and certainly wore her skirts with leggings the whole time. You tell me a piece of gym machinery that a knee-length skirt would cause a problem and you can ban a skirt from that machine. A knee-length free-flowing skirt (as opposed to a tight pencil skirt) poses no problem with a treadmill or an elliptical, and it had not been a problem for her for years.
The woman left the exercise class and was using an elliptical when she was told her membership had been revoked. It seemed like she tried to accommodate the gym by leaving the class.
My daughter was a member of NY Sports Club for a couple of years and did not have a problem with them concerning her clothes.
No one was suggesting she wore nothing under the skirt. My point was that a skirt with leggings might be even more suggestive than the totally a-sexual sweat pants or tights that are normally worn.
Why is it so "certain" she wore skirts the whole time? That's not certain to me at all and the article does not suggest this.
I’m embarrassed by some of the comments on this thread. Antipathy against Orthodox Jews runs deep among some. It’s as if they have no clue who Jesus and his mother Mary really were.