For the second time, Planet Fitness has canceled the membership of a woman who complained that a man was in the women’s locker room.
This time, the victim of the bargain-basement gym is Patricia Silva of Fairbanks, Alaska. She caught a man shaving — in front of a little girl. His excuse: He’s “queer.”
Silva complained to management, which acted quickly. It canceled her membership.
In 2015, another Planet Fitness location did the same thing. Under its “non-discrimination” policy, the company policy sides with men who want to ogle women and girls in the ladies’ locker room, then claim they’re either “queer” or “non-binary,” or “transgender” to get away with it.
Silva’s Story
Silva told the story on Facebook when she left the gym, whose owners apparently aren’t worried that little girls might be molested in the locker room, which would of course open the establishment to a multi-million dollar lawsuit.
In a short video posted just after she left the gym, Silva said “I just came out of Planet Fitness and there is a man shaving in a woman’s bathroom.”
“I realize he wants to be a woman,” she continued:
He gets to be a woman, I love him in Christ. He’s a spiritual being having a human experience. He doesn’t like his gender so he wants to be a woman.
But I’m not comfortable with him shaving in my bathroom.
“I stepped out of the locker room and loudly asked the front desk, ‘Are you aware that there is a MAN shaving in the women’s bathroom.… I’m not OK with that!’” she wrote above the video:
The two men standing at the desk, put their heads down, and their tails between their legs! As I was walking out the door … at my back, a woman shouts “it’s a girl”… I shouted back “it’s a man!”
In a second video, Silva explained that she wanted to bring awareness about pedophilia, and sex assault and harassment to her community, which “starts in places like this where we allow this kind of behavior.”
Silva said a “Planet Fitness representative got on my Facebook page and tried to slander me. And of course, everybody came out of the woodwork trying to be part of that.”
In a third video, Silva revealed that the gym kicked her out for good.
Silva said the man was shaving in front of a “little girl sitting in the corner” who “could have been 12 years old … in a towel, kind of freaked out that there’s a man shaving in her locker room.”
Silva continued:
Well, I was offended. I took a picture of him and I asked him, “why are you there? You’re a man with a penis. Why are you in the women’s locker room.” And he justified by saying “I’m queer, LGB,” and I said you shouldn’t be in the women’s locker room.…
I got canceled. Planet Fitness is defending the man in the women’s locker room, the man with a penis, rather than the child sitting in the corner with the towel wrapped around her.
Planet Fitness Policy
The comments under Silva’s post supported her for exposing the man. He entered the locker room under the company’s “non-discrimination” policy on “transgenders.”
Granted, the company says a “transgender’s” ridiculous claim must be sincere and an employee can request “external evidence of the member’s asserted gender identity” to confirm it. And “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.”
But the policy also includes this proviso:
All members and team members may use Planet Fitness locker room facilities and programs based on their self-reported gender identity; these facilities include bathrooms, showers, and all other facilities separated by sex. Wherever possible, Planet Fitness clubs should maintain private changing areas in each locker room for the comfort of all members and team members.
Still, a girl about 12 was subjected to a man’s presence in the women’s locker room, and he got away with it by claiming he was “queer.”
Kicking out normal women in favor of “transgenders” is, apparently, company policy.
In 2015, a branch in Midland County, Michigan, kicked out a member who complained about men in the locker room. Her complaint was “inappropriate.”
“Planet Fitness is committed to creating a non-intimidating, welcoming environment for our members,” a company statement said:
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 manner in which this member expressed her concerns about the policy exhibited behavior that management at the Midland club deemed inappropriate and disruptive to other members, which is a violation of the membership agreement and as a result her membership was canceled.
What the company will do when a woman or girl is raped in one of its locker rooms is unclear. One may assume that it has a squadron of liability lawyers on speed dial. A multi-million dollar lawsuit is inevitable.
Molester at Another Alaska Gym
On February 10, at a gym in Anchorage, Natchez J. Dunlap, 41, exposed himself to a girl under age 16, Must Read Alaska reported.
Dunlap committed the crime at Alaska Club South at his hot tub and a parent called the cops.
“According to the parent, the Alaska Club had reviewed the footage of the incident and indicated to her that they would not report it to the police; however they would revoke his gym membership,” the website reported:
The parent did contact police; the video corroborated that the man was fondling himself in front of the girl.
The social media post that the parent made after the alleged incident at Alaska Club South.
Detectives from the Crimes Against Children Unit began an investigation and on March 11, 2024, detectives obtained a felony arrest warrant for Dunlap for the charge of indecent exposure in the first degree.
