{"id":14459,"date":"2024-03-17T16:14:57","date_gmt":"2024-03-17T10:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/17\/woman-banned-from-planet-fitness-for-taking-photo-of-transgender-woman-in-the-locker-room\/"},"modified":"2024-03-17T16:14:57","modified_gmt":"2024-03-17T10:44:57","slug":"woman-banned-from-planet-fitness-for-taking-photo-of-transgender-woman-in-the-locker-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/17\/woman-banned-from-planet-fitness-for-taking-photo-of-transgender-woman-in-the-locker-room\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman Banned From Planet Fitness For Taking Photo of Transgender Woman in the Locker Room"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/fitness-and-wellbeing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Planet Fitness<\/a> revoked an Alaskan woman\u2019s membership after she took a photo of a \u201cman with a penis\u201d at one of the gym\u2019s women\u2019s locker rooms earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>A woman recorded herself at the\u00a0Fairbanks location speaking about the incident when she said a person identifying as \u201cqueer LBG\u201d was shaving in the female locker room.<\/p>\n<p>Planet Fitness confirmed to Fox News Digital that the woman violated the gym\u2019s policy regarding taking photos and\/or videos in the locker room.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs the home of the Judgement Free Zone, Planet Fitness is committed to creating an inclusive environment,\u201d Planet Fitness chief corporate affairs officer\u00a0McCall Gosselin said in a statement. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur gender identity non-discrimination policy, states that members and guests may use the gym facilities that best align with their sincere, self-reported gender identity. The member who posted on social media violated our mobile device policy that prohibits taking photos of individuals in the locker room, which resulted in their membership being terminated.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The woman, Patricia Silva, said she went to the gym and saw \u201ca man with a penis\u201d shaving in the women\u2019s locker room.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just came out of Planet Fitness, and there is a man shaving in the women\u2019s bathroom,\u201d she said in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/577093887\/videos\/pcb.10161796265448888\/390455200289016\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">several videos<\/a>\u00a0she posted about the incident. \u201cI realize he wants to be a woman, he gets to be a woman. I love him in Christ, he\u2019s a spiritual being having a human experience. He doesn\u2019t like his gender, so he wants to be a woman. But I\u2019m not comfortable with him shaving in my bathroom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Silva said there was a girl who \u201ccould have been 12 years old in a towel kind of freaked out that there\u2019s a man shaving in her locker room.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Silva continued that she took a picture of the individual, because she \u201cfelt that I was in an unsafe space.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf a serious concern or significant doubt about the bona fides of a person\u2019s transgender or nonbinary status\/identity arises and which the team member can articulate, the team member shall address their concerns with the member. If discussion with the member fails to resolve the serious concern or doubt, the club may ask for external evidence of the member\u2019s asserted gender identity. If it is confirmed that a member is acting in bad faith and improperly asserts a gender identity, they may be asked to leave and their membership may be terminated,\u201d Planet Fitness policy states.<\/p>\n<p>Silva claimed she had received a call from the gym notifying her that they had canceled her membership.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlanet Fitness is defending the man in the women\u2019s locker room, the man with a penis, rather than the child in the corner with a towel wrapped around her,\u201d Silva said.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                    <!--begin code --><\/p>\n<p>                    <!--end code --><\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/americanfaith.com\/woman-banned-from-planet-fitness-for-taking-photo-of-transgender-woman-in-the-locker-room\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Planet Fitness revoked an Alaskan woman\u2019s membership after she took a photo of a \u201cman with a penis\u201d at one of the gym\u2019s women\u2019s locker rooms earlier this week. A woman recorded herself at the\u00a0Fairbanks location speaking about the incident when she said a person identifying as \u201cqueer LBG\u201d was shaving in the female locker [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14460,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[]},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14459"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}