It's a BLOODBATH at Planet Fitness!

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[–]Q-Continuum-kin 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

What's the lore? I'm going to guess they kicked women out when they complained about an AGP in the changing room?

[–]Alienhunter糞大名 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

I don't know why it's so hard to just provide a private changing room for people who are not comfortable with using the changing room for their sex for whatever reason.

A trans-woman isn't comfortable in the men's room? Fine. The women aren't comfortable with them in the women's room? Fine. Use the private changing room. No problem. If they complain about it just insinuate less than noble intentions on why they are so insistent on changing with other people and seeing them naked. Most everyone would prefer the private room anyway.

[–]ID10T 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Yes spend tons of money to appease the 0.001% very logical

[–]Alienhunter糞大名 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

It's more like due to laws requiring you to have handicap accessible facilities it's easier to just make those into a separate room and just let anyone who is handicapped mentally or otherwise use it.

[–]ID10T 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I wouldn't go as so far to call transgenders mentally handicapped

[–]NastyWetSmear 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I think the cost of installing a private changing room, plus the limited space that would be available in it and the difficulty of policing who was using it at what time is likely the reasons they don't do that.

I'm sure, when choices like this are made, they weigh it up and mistakenly come to the conclusion that anyone who complains about having a man in the women's room will be shouted down and cancelled by online hate mobs, which would have been the case just a few years ago. They think the cost of installing something specifically for mentally unwell people and the risk of insulting them by insinuating they aren't the sex they claim to be was too high, plus the press is usually on your side when you do something mad like this, so odds are they would come out smelling like roses.

It was always a money losing strategy, as sane people didn't want to put up with it and always quietly left, it's just that the online discourse now seems to have shifted to people leaving loudly and the media having trouble convincing people it's the opposite. At least, that's my thinking - they are expecting strong public support and the usual cheering of how brave this choice was, but finding that voice rather croaky and tired.