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

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163. That totally *isn't* the solution that makes the most sense, actually.

Because transgender people in transition have quite a lot to go through before they can legally change gender markers on their ID (and some states make it basically impossible). Part of gender transition involves living full-time as one's identified gender while taking hormones etc; someone at this stage of gender transition probably hasn't been able to change their gender markers on identification, and using the public toilets and sex-segregated facilities that match their legally-identified gender is not really the most "sensible" option (since it involves trans men in women's toilets and changing rooms, and trans women in men's toilets and changing rooms). Trans people and especially trans women are already at a much higher risk of violence. Forcing trans women into men's facilities increases the risk of violence to them, while allowing them to use the facilities of their identified gender doesn't actually increase the risk of violence to cis women. This whole bathroom panic thing is pretty much aimed at trans women for some reason, people seem to forget that trans men actually exist; the idea that trans women are perverts who present some sort of risk to cis women in public facilities is pretty ugly bigotry honestly. (And gender *identity* is not in fact a social construct; there's a growing body of research that shows that it seems to have a biological/neurological basis. Gender *roles* are social constructs; gender *performance* and gender *norms* are social constructs, but gender itself is a thing that has social constructions applied to it.)