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Sunday, March 15, 2015

Dear Planet Fitness, Why Don’t You Care About The Safety And Privacy of Women?

Dear Planet Fitness,

I went to your website today looking to cancel my membership, but it says I have to do it in writing. I hope this letter will satisfy that requirement.

Now, because you need this written down like it’s a divorce filing, I thought I should tell you why our relationship isn’t working out (pun very intended). You might call it “irreconcilable differences.” Or you might just say I was utterly disgusted and perplexed when I read this story about a woman named Yvette Cormier, who quite reasonably felt intimidated and uncomfortable when she encountered a man in a Planet Fitness women’s locker room. She expressed her concerns to your staff, and then to your corporate office, but she was informed that because the man “identifies as a woman,” he is free to use the bathrooms and changing facilities of actual women.

And as if so profoundly violating the privacy of your female customers wasn’t enough, you then proceeded to ban Ms. Cormier as punishment for complaining. If that lady has the audacity to feel threatened by a man who waltzes into the locker room while she’s potentially exposed, she isn’t welcome in your place of business, you announced.

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29 comments:

Anonymous said...

You can thank the democrats for this and yes even the ones who so self righteously claim they are against this and didn't' vote for it. We know where your hearts and minds are by not disassociating yourselves with this perverse vulgar party on every single level.

Anonymous said...

Putting women and children at risk is a Planet fitness policy I see.

Anonymous said...

Ireton just stay out of the women's bathroom, will you please.

Anonymous said...

I don't think a business has a choice 11:56 at least not in this state. It's the law. Remember this was one of the highlights of omalley tenure and something he and the rest of the democrats celebrated. This all to gain another small block of democrat voters.
This is what democrats do. They pander to a segment of society no matter how small or in this case how perverse and pass laws favorable to that group and then the group votes for them.

Anonymous said...

This practice is a law in Maryland. A transgender can use either restroom or locker room. Complain to your local Democratic politician.

Anonymous said...

I'm sorry tell me again how this person was a threat?

Anonymous said...

Your first failure was going to Planet Fitness.

Anonymous said...

what do you expect for $10 a month? lol!

Anonymous said...

I agree 1235...if the only "threat" is being a transgender person then exactly what's the problem. Who cares. If you were minding your business you wouldn't even paid attention..

Anonymous said...

12:35
They were a threat to this person's idealized self-importance, and not reality. What a freaking baby.

Anonymous said...

Have you idiots bashing the woman who complained seen a picture of the transsexual man in question? I'm pretty certain if I was a woman and saw that in the female locker room, I would be nervous and concerned as well.

Anonymous said...

This could have happened at any gym. I have been a member of other gyms in Salisbury. You would get the same results. It could have happened at the Centre at Salisbury and there is security there. In this day and time you have to just be aware of your surroundings and know what a real "threat" is. I feel very safe at planet fitness. Cameras are installed within the gym as well as the parking lot out front and even on the side.

Anonymous said...

I would pummel it or spray it with mace as I feared for my life if that walked in on me.

Anonymous said...

Thanks to the new laws I always have a bathroom to use. If the men's room at Walmart is being cleaned I simply use the ladies room.

Anonymous said...

Did he make a move on the woman? If not then get over it, nothing here except a whiner.

Anonymous said...

Let's say a 13 year old girl is getting changed and this Transgendered person walked in and got undressed. Would you want your young daughter exposed to some strangers Penis ?

A 13 year old can't go to a movie that shows a penis but its perfectly acceptable to see one in a public restroom here in Maryland.

Steve's Leavin's said...

It's the law here in Maryland. If he is stopped from walking in on your 13 year old daughter by any employee of Planet Fitness, that employee is subject to arrest and punishment under the LAW.

Since this is now law,if you want it changed back, you need to start all over with a very lengthy process.

In the future, everyone should be VERY CAREFUL when you vote for something. You just might get it!

Anonymous said...

I think it's a sad thing in America when certain people have rights and others do not. The tranny has the right to use a female restroom/locker room, but a natural woman does not have the right to feel awkward or uncomfortable with a man role playing (sorry..it is what it is) in her space that is supposed to be private for females??? It seems that everyone has "rights" except the people who live a traditional god fearing life.

Anonymous said...

The threat comes from somebody using it as an excuse to get into the women s room and assaulting or video the occupants. A third rest room is the answer.

Anonymous said...

3:16 you read my mind. I agree!!!

Anonymous said...

Okay, let's see the corporate rules that describe the threshold for "identifying as a woman".

Anonymous said...

What about MY right NOT to see freaks watching me undress?????????????

Anonymous said...

South Park had just an episode on that 4:17.

Anonymous said...

I wouldn't want a lesbian checking outy 13 year old daughter either 2:29. IT'S JUST SICK!

Helpless Cop said...

Since the new law, many sex offenders have been joining health clubs to use the locker rooms to watch the young girls and teens shower and use the toilets. We check out their chat-rooms, they love that you don't even have to dress the part, just claim you feel like a woman. Law enforcement is helpless in doing anything now that this is the law. We monitor their chat, but that is all we can do.

Anonymous said...

Transgender shouldn't use either men or women. Have a uni_sex room.

InvictusV said...

Well done Matt Walsh. He has come a long way from his zbh days.

Anonymous said...

I read that one registered sex offender was caught in a woman's locker room in a locker video taping the teenagers coming and going into the shower. It was in Texas.

Anonymous said...

Wouldn't go there anyhow. They want TMI!