Gym’s awesome response to transphobic woman

A Michigan woman’s gym membership has been revoked after she repeatedly complained about having to share the women’s dressing room with a transgender person.

Yvette Cormier, 48, told ABC News that she walked into the locker room at Midland Planet Fitness last week and saw someone wearing a wig and “a little bit of blush,” but who was “huge” and appeared “very manly.”

“I just stopped right there in my tracks,” she said. “It was a man for sure.”

Cormier went to the front desk to complain, but the man at the desk said that Planet Fitness policy is “whatever gender you feel you are, that’s the locker room you’re allowed to go in,” she said.

She called the gym’s corporate office to escalate the complaint, but was instead told that the front desk had been correct about the Planet Fitness’ policy. Cormier decided to take things into her own hands by going back to the gym to tell other members about the incident. Everyone she talked to “was appalled,” she says.

The corporate office called and revoked her membership last Thursday as a result of how she expressed her concerns. The Director of Public Relations for Planet Fitness, McCall Gosselin, released a full statement to The Huffington Post about the decision:

“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 membership of the member in question was not cancelled as a result of complaints about the policy, as we welcome all feedback from our members. Rather, the manner in which she expressed her concerns about the policy exhibited behaviour that club management deemed inappropriate and disruptive to other members, which is a violation of the membership agreement and as a result her membership was cancelled.”

While many have applauded the gym’s non-discriminatory stance, it has been met with a backlash from some quarters. The Family Research Council in Washington D.C. wrote in a blog post, “Planet Fitness is no longer part of the rational universe,” and it hopes the customers of the gym will find new facilities “where the atmosphere will be more conducive to moral sanity.”