Woman repeatedly complains about transgender woman in gym locker room, gets the boot

Lol, booyah!

Yep she got punished Break the rules of the gym and that's what happens.

I always thought Planet Fitness was a bit of a joke when it came to training i.e. no grunting and 'lunk alarms', but this one time, they got it right. Good for them.

Good on you, Planet Fitness, for enforcing your "no judgment zone" policy.

What I love about the transgenders-in-the-locker-room/restroom hysteria, is the idea that some man fooled the doctors and went through all the trouble, expense, and pain of having his dick removed just for the opportunity to sit in the next stall while you pee or cast an eye at your soggy ass peeling out of your bathing suit.

Get over yourself.


(Of course, the above was an appalling oversimplification of the physiological and psychological toll of the process - both before and after transition. It's just an illustration of the tiny-mindedness of some strain of dimbulb that can't extend empathy to a torture they can't imagine.)

Well, isn't Cormier a speshul snowflake!

This made me all giddy and happy inside. What a pleasant start to the weekend!

J.S.F. said:

I always thought Planet Fitness was a bit of a joke when it came to training i.e. no grunting and 'lunk alarms', but this one time, they got it right. Good for them.

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Yeah. For a "judgment free" zone, they sure are judgmental of fit people.

It's great to hear about this, though. It's hilarious the cisgender woman is complaining about how she feels like she's the one being punished. She harassed another patron! When management told her to stop, she outright told them she wasn't going to! What did she expect?

I wanted to express gratitude to the posters in this thread. I've visited some other forums with a thread on this incident and the villains elsewhere are the transwoman and Planet Fitness...I love the smell of ignorant hate in the morning, but I love the smell of tolerance here much better! Thank you all!

And thanks to Mac for giving us this place!

ViridianChick said:

Yeah. For a "judgment free" zone, they sure are judgmental of fit people.

It's great to hear about this, though. It's hilarious the cisgender woman is complaining about how she feels like she's the one being punished. She harassed another patron! When management told her to stop, she outright told them she wasn't going to! What did she expect?

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Well, yeah, what DID that woman expect? She rags on another person who just happened to be transgendered. She harassed that person, screamed about it, and she's the victim? I just can't see it.

PF really wouldn't be my choice of a gym, to be honest. In a gym, the idea for a semi-serious trainer is to lift progressively heavier weights and yeah, I grunt and swear (sometimes) when I train, so I wouldn't fit in well in that milieu. Pizza Night ain't my idea of promoting fitness, either. Still, this time, PF did uphold it's policy of being non-judgmental in only the best way.

Perks said:

What I love about the transgenders-in-the-locker-room/restroom hysteria, is the idea that some man fooled the doctors and went through all the trouble, expense, and pain of having his dick removed changing his whole life to live as a woman just for the opportunity to sit in the next stall while you pee or cast an eye at your soggy ass peeling out of your bathing suit.

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FWIW, it's not the surgery that makes the difference. Changing your external appearance and how you "read" socially is the high hurdle, whether or you've had surgery yet/at all. Going through all of your world and telling everyone that you're female, putting up with all the miserable pronoun screwups, risking being beaten up or murdered for being trans: from what I hear, these are the things that break trans people's hearts and wear them down.

(And policing people's genitals, not so much.)

evilrooster said:

FWIW, it's not the surgery that makes the difference. Changing your external appearance and how you "read" socially is the high hurdle, whether or you've had surgery yet/at all. Going through all of your world and telling everyone that you're female, putting up with all the miserable pronoun screwups, risking being beaten up or murdered for being trans: from what I hear, these are the things that break trans people's hearts and wear them down.

(And policing people's genitals, not so much.)

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Yeah, all that stuff helped a lot, but the surgery was what made the difference for me, though I know many don't want or need it. And yeah, that other stuff sucks, but people policing my genitals? yeah, that sucks too. FWIW.

Diana Hignutt said:

Yeah, all that stuff helped a lot, but the surgery was what made the difference for me, though I know many don't want or need it. And yeah, that other stuff sucks, but people policing my genitals? yeah, that sucks too. FWIW.

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I stand corrected, and thank you for the input.

I mostly wanted to kind of back off of the idea that the surgery is a kind of universal watershed.

I saw this popping up on my feed on Facebook and being the hysterical area I'm in, there were a multitude of comments of how creepers could claim they were transgender to gain access to the women's locker room and "do some serious damage" including seeing women in various states of undress.

I would love to respond to the hysteria that says if we never did anything that could be broken as rule, we'd never do anything (such as drive -- people break those rules all the time), but I couldn't for fear of losing my cool, which doesn't help anyone.

First and foremost, I'd love for America to get over its weird habits around nudity.

But I was wondering what some good responses would be to these kinds of stupid statement. It is possible someone could abuse the rules, it happens with everything, but really how likely is it? That's not my fear, for sure.

And why would a person go to the bother of changing their gender, or even pretending to change their gender, simply to be a slimy creep? http://www.theprovince.com/news/stop+doing+this+Hidden+camera+voyeurism+rise/10842828/story.html The article includes a list of those recently charged: seven male-identified, presumably cis and straight men. 'Transwomen in the locker-room' should be the least of anyone's worries.

She feels Planet Fitness could provide a third locker room for transgender people.

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LOL yeah, because all transgender people identify the same way... Put a trans man and a trans woman in one locker room then?

I also love how that bimbo emphasizes that SHE is the one being punished. It sounds like she's implying that the trans person deserves some kind of punishment for not feeling the gender this woman wants her to. Good thing she was kicked out. Stupid peoples' health shouldn't be promoted lest they breed.

I always thought we could have another changing room for those identifying as bigots.

Our local council has dealt with the issue by using unisex changing rooms. And in nearly twenty years of using unisex changing rooms I've never once been ogled by any straight man or lesbian woman. At the moment that probably has more to do with the bright orange swimsuit my husband bought for me and the weight I've put on than anyone trying to be decent. Although you can't miss the swimsuit.

evilrooster said:

FWIW, it's not the surgery that makes the difference. Changing your external appearance and how you "read" socially is the high hurdle, whether or you've had surgery yet/at all. Going through all of your world and telling everyone that you're female, putting up with all the miserable pronoun screwups, risking being beaten up or murdered for being trans: from what I hear, these are the things that break trans people's hearts and wear them down.

(And policing people's genitals, not so much.)

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Diana Hignutt said:

Yeah, all that stuff helped a lot, but the surgery was what made the difference for me, though I know many don't want or need it. And yeah, that other stuff sucks, but people policing my genitals? yeah, that sucks too. FWIW.

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And also, I put a qualifier at the end of my post specifically stating that I was oversimplifying for effect - to mirror the dimwittedness of the complainant in these types of situations.