By Milt Harris ——Bio and Archives--March 15, 2024
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The expression go woke, or go broke has proven to be a truism for companies like Anheuser Busch, Target, and others. Now, we can only hope that the same fate consumes Planet Fitness.
At a location in Fairbanks Alaska, a woman walked into the women’s locker room and discovered a man standing in front of a mirror shaving. The woman, Patricia Silva, approached the man and told him that he did not belong there. Silva also noticed that a young girl, whose age she estimated to be around 12 years old, was in a corner of the room and was obviously uncomfortable with his presence.
After her confrontation with the man, Silva reported the incident to the staff. Unfortunately, the woke individuals ignored her concerns, refused to reprimand the man, and instead terminated Silva’s membership.
Shocked by the company’s decision, Silva posted her account of the incident on X:
This is not the first time that Planet Fitness has handled a situation like this inappropriately. Several years ago, in Michigan, the company terminated the membership of a woman after she complained about a transgender being in the women’s locker room. She was informed that Planet Fitness employs a “no judgment policy” that allows people to use locker rooms based on “their sincere, self-reported gender identity.”
On the company website, they state their policy in this way:
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Libs of TikTok took up the fight for Silva on X. They posed this question on the site:
In a second post, they reported the cancellation of Silva’s membership and reiterated their question about Planet Fitness’s policy:
Planet Fitness is standing resolute behind a woke policy that endangers women and young girls who are members of their gym. The irony is that by doing so, they are violating the policy stated on their website. The women and girls who are forced to share a locker room with a biological male are not in “an environment where everyone feels accepted, respected, and like they belong.”
There are common sense limits to everything. Policies like this that honor the rights of a delusional few over the rights of the stable-minded majority, need to be exposed and eliminated.
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Milt spent thirty years as a sales and operations manager for an international manufacturing company. He is also a four-time published author on a variety of subjects. Now, he spends most of his time researching and writing about conservative politics and liberal folly.