Woman's membership cancelled after complaining of transgender woman in locker room

[TarantulaHawk]

Planet Fitness cancels woman's membership after her complaints of transgender woman in locker room


MIDLAND, MI -- A Midland County woman's gym membership was canceled after she refused to stop telling fellow gym members "a man" was using the woman's locker room.

Yvette Cormier said the incident occurred Saturday, Feb. 28, when she entered the women's locker room at the Planet Fitness location at 701 Joe Mann Boulevard in Midland.

"I was blocked, because a man was standing there," Cormier said. "It freaked me out because, why is a man in here?"

Cormier said an employee at the front desk told her that the individual identifies as a woman.

After taking her complaints to Planet Fitness' corporate office, Cormier said she was told that the gym was a "no judgement zone" and they would not tell the individual in question to stay out of the women's locker room. The person has not been identified.

The slogan "Judgement Free Zone" is regularly used by Planet Fitness.

A statement released by McCall Gosselin, public relations director for Planet Fitness, states that members can use the locker room corresponding with their personal gender identity.

Cormier disagrees with the policy and feels it's a safety issue.

According to Cormier, she returned to the gym each day between Monday and Thursday. While there, Cormier said she told women in the locker room about the individual she observed in the bathroom the weekend before.

Cormier said she then got a call from Planet Fitness' corporate office telling her that she was violating their "no judgement" policy. She says they asked if she was going to stop talking to other women in the locker room and she said she would not.

Cormier said the representative told her she was no longer welcome at the gym.

The statement released by Gosselin confirms that Cormier's actions led to the cancellation of her membership, though the statement does not go into details of the situation.

Here is a look at the statement, in full:

"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."

"I feel it's kind of one sided," Cormier said about the policy. "I feel like I am the one who is being punished."

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

The women's locker room offers private changing stalls and includes bathroom stalls with doors.

According to Alison Gill, senior legislative council for the Human Rights Campaign, the gym is within its rights to create a policy that welcomes members to use the locker room corresponding with their gender identity.

"They have that right," she said.

http://www.mlive.com/news/saginaw/index.ssf/2015/03/transgender_members_welcome_in.html

 

[Stagger Lee]

This is what happens when you oppose liberal politically correct agenda. You lose your job and even ability to engage in commerce. The government is behind this being enforced through the private sector. The constitution is meaningless if you can make an end run around it.

There's kind of irony in that we recently saw liberals creating women-only public gym hours to cater to muslims, but transgenders must be completely allowed access at all times and areas of the gym. The hierarchy of liberal group identity rights..

 

[Bible_Belt]

Q: What’s the biggest crime committed by transvestites?






A: Male fraud.

 

[Peaks&Valleys]

This is awesome.

The chickens are coming home to roost.

Wonder what's going to happen when some sexual deviant gets access to a woman's locker room simply by stating he 'identifies as a woman'.

I swear to God, libtards and feminists are some of the most retarded people on the face of the planet.

 

[YawataNoKami]

This is awesome.

The chickens are coming home to roost.

Wonder what's going to happen when some sexual deviant gets access to a woman's locker room simply by stating he 'identifies as a woman'.

I swear to God, libtards and feminists are some of the most retarded people on the face of the planet.

Liberalism is a serious mental disorder.

Libertard ; do you want your teen daughter in a locker room, undressing with someone who is still a male?

Welcome to the USA 2015 where we have become a politically correct insane asylum. If you don´t believe in homosexuality, LGBT, illegal aliens, Common Core and centralized govn, you are labelled a hater.