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

[Cal Carpenter]

73. I may have missed it because your post is quite long

And I will preface the rest of my comment with this: "violence against women is deeply embedded in our society" - to use your words, with which I wholeheartedly agree (I expect you'll use it against me if I don't state this clearly).

But what I'm not seeing from you is a recognition that TRANS women are frequent victims of male violence, and that men's bathrooms or locker rooms are a potentially, particularly dangerous place for trans women.

You are creating divisions where there need be none. There is no evidence that the person in the OP who identifies as a woman is any threat to anyone. Victims of violence, be they cisfemale or trans women in any phase of transition, should be on the same side, no?

While you continue to mention that there is no information about the state of the trans woman's transitioning, there also no information that the trans woman is ANY THREAT to anyone in that facility. There is no information indicating that any other woman in that gym had a problem with the trans woman using the women's locker room. And we can assume, based on statistics, that many of the women who are members at the gym are victims of violence, and yet only one woman (who may or may not be concerned about violence) complained.

There is a statement from the gym indicating that the woman who got her membership canceled was bothering other female gym members every day, over and over.

She sounds like a bigot to me, and bigots should not be catered to.

This is an imperfect analogy, but it reminds of people who get freaked out by Muslims praying on an airplane and cause a fuss, resulting in the Muslims being removed from the plane, when it would make much more sense to kick off the person who can't deal with folks who aren't like them.