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Planet Fitness Revokes Woman's Membership After Transgender Complaint[W:245:463:992]

Re: Planet Fitness Revokes Woman's Membership After Transgender Complaint

All they have to do is post a sign at the front desk and on each locker room door. Seems dishonest to keep that policy secret. Full disclosure and then anyone can live with it or go elsewhere.

what makes the policy "secret"
I mean obviously there weren't signs posted but that doesnt mean it was secret
 
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what makes the policy "secret"
I mean obviously there weren't signs posted but that doesnt mean it was secret

Well, they didn't tell her about it. Seems like a small, easy thing to do to avoid confusion.
 
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I don't think it's dishonest for people to have fitting philosophies about trans people.

I understand the lady was offended. But that is the way it is some times.

C'mon, you know that's not what I meant.
It's a simple thing, just tell people about it. Would that be a betrayal of a principle or something?
 
Re: Planet Fitness Revokes Woman's Membership After Transgender Complaint

1.)Well, they didn't tell her about it.
2.) Seems like a small, easy thing to do to avoid confusion.

1.) that doesnt make it a secret
2.) She was told after her concern and she was given three small easy things to do and she choose not to

maybe, and this is just me guessing, PF thought the policy is good enough and EXTRA steps aren't needed
 
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1.) says who. Are all transgenders dangerous uncontrollable sex freaks and criminals or something? what makes them MORE dangerous than anybody?
2.) you are free to have that opinion but you'd have to back that claim up
3.) yes it is because its prejudiced and assume that simply because there is a transgender present she is in danger
just like it would be if somebody complain about blacks, or Muslims etc and said thier presence is dangerous :scared:
so were her request to treat the person as a lesser
4.) her comments say so
5.) did you just claim to tell me what i believe? this is called a failed strawman and its a very desperate one that nobody honest buys
6.) what is the LGBT agenda?
7.) what attacks, what insults, what goals? seems you like to just make a lot of stuff up and sell it as fact lol
8.) well in this case that didnt happen so no worries
9.) see #8

The irony is, the OBVIOUS irony is there exist far more HATE in your irresponsible accusations of " bigotry " and " hate " than there is in a Woman complaining about undressing in front of a STRANGE MAN.

But thats the LGBT agenda's strategy.

Use Hate to bully other people into submitting to their demands.
 
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"I DEMAND you do something or else I will take my business elsewhere!"

"Then take your business elsewhere."

"I'm a victim; I'm a victim!!!"
 
Re: Planet Fitness Revokes Woman's Membership After Transgender Complaint

1.)The irony is, the OBVIOUS irony is there exist far more HATE in your irresponsible accusations of " bigotry " and " hate " than there is in a Woman complaining about undressing in front of a STRANGE MAN.
2.) But thats the LGBT agenda's strategy.
3.)Use Hate to bully other people into submitting to their demands.

1.) you keep saying this but cant support it, hate for who? lol i love it
2.) again what factually is the LGBT agenda?
3.) Where is the hate and bullying in this topic, please point out the factual hate and bullying, thanks
facts win again
 
Re: Planet Fitness Revokes Woman's Membership After Transgender Complaint

at best, it's "Curves for "men" ".

No, curves is a women's only fitness club. Planet fitness is open to members of both sexes.

Are you saying that it is unmanly to work out at a fitness club?
 
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"I DEMAND you do something or else I will take my business elsewhere!"

"Then take your business elsewhere."

"I'm a victim; I'm a victim!!!"

" I demand you think and believe a certain way."

" No, I believe I have the right to my own beliefs "

" Then your'e a BIGOT and your'e filled with HATE "

" I'm a bigot because I refuse to believe the way you do ? "

" I'm a victim, I'm a victim !! "
 
Re: Planet Fitness Revokes Woman's Membership After Transgender Complaint

1.) you keep saying this but cant support it, hate for who? lol i love it
2.) again what factually is the LGBT agenda?
3.) Where is the hate and bullying in this topic, please point out the factual hate and bullying, thanks
facts win again

Your accusations of Hate and Bigotry towards those who dont believe the way you do is far more hateful than a Woman complaining about undressing in front of a strange man.

You're a hypocrite

I don't know why thats so difficult to understand.
 
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hopefully I do this right, please let me know if i didn't

Static link: Planet Fitness Revokes Woman's Membership After Transgender Complaint - ABC News

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[h=1]Planet Fitness Revokes Woman's Membership After Transgender Complaint[/h]
Mar 7, 2015, 5:42 PM ET
A Michigan woman's Planet Fitness membership was revoked after she complained about a transgender person in the women's locker room.Yvette Cormier, a 48, said she was walking into the Midland Planet Fitness locker room last Saturday when she saw someone "dressed like a man." The person was wearing a wig and "a little bit of blush," but was "huge" and appeared "very manly," Cormier told ABC News today. "I just stopped right there in my tracks," she said. "It was a man for sure." Cormier, who had been a Planet Fitness member for two months, said she went to the front desk immediately. The man at the desk told her that Planet Fitness policy is "whatever gender you feel you are, that's the locker room you're allowed to go in," she said. "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.'" When she called the corporate offices, she said, someone there confirmed that the person at the front desk was correct about Planet Fitness policies. "I wouldn't have signed up for this gym if I knew that ahead of time," Cormier said, adding that the gym is "failing to protect me if anything happens in those locker rooms with a man." She said she went back to the gym the next few days and "told everyone in the locker room what happened." She said everyone she talked to "was appalled." On Thursday, Cormier said, Planet Fitness Corporate called and revoked her membership immediately. "They said, 'You are talking to people about him in the women's locker room. You are making people upset.' 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." Planet Fitness Director of Public Relations McCall Gosselin said the gym 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."






Wow so this lady made a complete ass of herself hahaha
I love that she made such an ass of herself and a stink of this that HER membership was cancelled. That's awesome. I'd like to know what danger she was talking about.



I am right in the middle....

The complaining woman had a point. A "transgendered" person is not a cross dresser. If this individual was as she describes, the intent of fair access has been breached. What is to stop anyone from donning bra and pantyhose and getting a cheap thrill. The gym needs a better policy on what constitutes access to the women's change room, or perhaps investigate a third change room if that demographic is so important to them.

On the other hand, she is an asshole. You do not go behind people's backs and campaign to get them tossed out, that's junior high crap. And if, as the story alludes, they received complaints about her they were right to take action, AFTER having addressed her about the issue.

Transgendered is the new issue, and it raises numerous issues. It takes a long time, I understand, to make the transition, surgery etc. Where do they go in the meantime and how should business and government react? This business reacted badly and left the impression that transgendered have more say than regular people, and that any old dude can dress up and join as a woman.
 
Re: Planet Fitness Revokes Woman's Membership After Transgender Complaint

No, curves is a women's only fitness club. Planet fitness is open to members of both sexes.

Are you saying that it is unmanly to work out at a fitness club?



It's unmanly to work out an any club that gets upset if you do deadlifts.
 
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1.)Your accusations of Hate and Bigotry towards those who dont believe the way you do is far more hateful than a Woman complaining about undressing in front of a strange man.
2.) You're a hypocrite
3.) I don't know why thats so difficult to understand.

1.) well i haven't done this so this straw-man fails
2.) please provide proof of this false claim
3.) its not difficult to understand you made it up, I understand that fact very well

let us know when you can prove your claims, thanks lol
 
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So Im so curious

do people actually think this lady was NOT given doable solutions?
after her initial complaint/concern which i understand and she was informed of the equality and no judgment policy and told she can use private stalls or not go in there at the same times was that not enough?

since we can't go back in time and inform her PF doesnt discriminate once she came to the front desk, was made aware of thier policies what should PF have done?
 
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I'm sure that's it.
My manhood isn't tied to what I'm allowed to do in a fitness club. I could walk into any of them that don't allow me to do dead lifts and still feel like a man.


You probably use the smith machine.
I have no idea what that is.
 
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...

Are you saying that it is unmanly to work out at a fitness club?

Heck, it's not only unmanly, but un-womanly to work out at any fitness facility that doesn't offer serious weight equipment. Men and women have the same basic need for serious physical exercise. We have all the same muscles and are anatomically 96.365% the same.

Going to the gym to walk a few minutes on the treadmill is pointless as walking can be done anywhere. Same with flailing around a pair of plastic or chrome plated two pound dumbbells.
 
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...I have no idea what that is.

That right there is an issue. Everyone should know what a Smith machine is - and why it typically shouldn't be used.
 
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So because you seem to be juvenile enough in your thoughts and behaviors, you assume others must be too?

If the "guy"/trans woman was really just a pervert getting peeks, and the gym was really get legitimate complaints about inappropriate behavior, not just being in the locker room, then the gym could have revoked his/her membership.

A man being in the women's locker room is, in itself, inappropriate behavior.
 
Re: Planet Fitness Revokes Woman's Membership After Transgender Complaint

My manhood isn't tied to what I'm allowed to do in a fitness club. I could walk into any of them that don't allow me to do dead lifts and still feel like a man.


Bro, Do you even lift?


I have no idea what that is.

 
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