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Tuesday, March 19, 2024

Planet Fitness is receiving boycott calls after reports of a 2023 incident involving a man who allegedly exposed himself to a 15-year-old while in a women's locker room.

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This seems to be the Newsweek article... (Sentinel, please correct me if this is incorrect)

Planet Fitness Faces Boycott Calls from Outraged Conservatives
www.newsweek.com

... Conservative social media users are calling for a boycott of Planet Fitness after reports of a 2023 incident involving a man who allegedly exposed himself to a 15-year-old while in a women's locker room.
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In September 2023, a 15-year-old was inside the women's locker room of Planet Fitness in Monroe, Georgia, when she said a naked biological male had exposed himself to her, according to the Monroe Police Department. Jakorbie Dixon, 25, of Conyers, was arrested in connection to the incident on "multiple warrants for public indecency by exposing himself in the female locker room," the department said in a statement.

Not long after Dixon's arrest, the teen's family filed a lawsuit against Planet Fitness over the incident, Bart Benton, the attorney representing the teen's family, announced in a statement on September 15. Benton claims that the fitness chain was aware of Dixon's alleged lewd behavior before exposing himself to the teenager.

"We are committed to holding Planet Fitness accountable for its actions," Benton said in the statement. "Our early investigation has revealed that Planet Fitness knew and was on notice of this type of behavior from the perpetrator but chose to ignore his prior conduct of exposing himself to females in the women's locker room because he 'identified' as a female. This type of behavior is completely unacceptable, and we will fight for justice for our client and make sure that Planet Fitness takes steps to prevent this from happening again."

The gym chain had already been facing days of criticism over a separate incident involving a man inside a women's locker room in the presence of a child. ...


#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-03-18 12:03 AM | Reply

Looks right. Not sure why the Facebook link didn't embed like it was supposed to.

#2 | Posted by sentinel at 2024-03-18 12:39 AM | Reply

If they were truly committed to a judgement (sic) free zone, they should go all in and eliminate the gender restrictions in all the dressing rooms.

#DesegregateNow

#3 | Posted by sentinel at 2024-03-18 09:33 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

The party that cries over cancel culture sure does love cancel culture.

#4 | Posted by Nixon at 2024-03-18 01:42 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

Best Planet Fitness can hope for is that stories like this get little coverage.

#5 | Posted by BellRinger at 2024-03-18 05:20 PM | Reply

From what I have seen, aren't they one of the best deals around if you want to work out?

I doubt a boycott will get much traction.

Beer...buy a different beer.

A place to workout? Probably few options unless you want to buy expensive memberships.

#6 | Posted by BillJohnson at 2024-03-18 07:11 PM | Reply

I was in probably 30 or so different PFs traveling around the country last year.

90 percent of them were quite nice, which is a pretty good number.

This is just another Rwing Crybaby Story to whine about, with no evidence, that this is any more than an isolated incident.

Every one I was in had a sign going into the men's shower if there was a female on cleaning duty.

#7 | Posted by Corky at 2024-03-18 07:45 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

" that this is any more than an isolated incident."

Isolated or not their policy is what allowed this incident to occur.

#8 | Posted by BellRinger at 2024-03-18 08:44 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

Georgia still has Indecent Exposure laws on the books. Mr. Dixon was later arrested for public indecency.

news.monroelocal.org

#9 | Posted by madbomber at 2024-03-19 03:59 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

From what I have seen, aren't they one of the best deals around if you want to work out?

#6 | POSTED BY BILLJOHNSON AT 2024-03-18 07:11 PM | FLAG:

Well, no, working out is free. The Planet Fitness model is to get you to sign up, not come back, and hope you forget to stop the recurring billing.

#10 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2024-03-19 11:27 AM | Reply

Trump bragged about doing that in beauty pageant dressing rooms. What's the problem?

#11 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2024-03-19 12:13 PM | Reply

Imagine going to the gym and not having to deal with "conservatives." That would be awesome. I bet we could even get them to take The New Pravda off the TV screens, so we don't have to watch Jesse Watters whining about Biden walking down steps or whatever white supremacist drivel Laura Ingraham is puking out into the ether...

No Sporkfoot, leaving her weights on the mat for somebody else to pick up. No bluetooth headset guy cutting into your set and refusing to wipe down the equipment because Covid-19 is a China hoax.

Sounds awesome.

#12 | Posted by chuffy at 2024-03-19 12:20 PM | Reply

" that this is any more than an isolated incident."
Isolated or not their policy is what allowed this incident to occur.

#8 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER

Notice Bellringer can't tell you WHICH policy? Or how any policy relates to the incident?

Was the guy trans? Doesn't sound like it. Just a dude going into the women's locker room and exposing himself.

But Bellringer wants to pretend this has happened ever before until a trans policy was in place.

#13 | Posted by Sycophant at 2024-03-19 12:41 PM | Reply

It's entertaining to watch how not-liberals lash out whenever a story like this comes out. It's all about pointing fingers at other people, so that their own paraphiliae are less likely to be exposed. They demand merciless oppression of anyone who might expose their own fetishes, ostensibly taught in the churches where the youth pastor is molesting children, or the Congressman is legislating against gay people after being humiliated by his leather bear master in a sex dungeon.

The amount of self-imposed restrictions against being actually free is their own issue. Stop trying to impose your weird ideas on the rest of us.

#14 | Posted by chuffy at 2024-03-19 12:57 PM | Reply

It's all about pointing fingers at other people, so that their own paraphiliae are less likely to be exposed.
#14 | POSTED BY CHUFFY

It probably was one of their own.

#15 | Posted by Sycophant at 2024-03-19 01:14 PM | Reply

Isn't this an example of "locker room talk," or is the perp not rich enough that he can "do anything, grab 'em by the...?"

#16 | Posted by chuffy at 2024-03-19 01:48 PM | Reply

" Notice Bellringer can't tell you WHICH policy?"

Their policy regarding males claiming to be trans to be granted access to women's locker rooms.

" Was the guy trans? Doesn't sound like it."

Doesn't matter. All that's required is this person to claim to be trans and, voila - this person is trans.

#17 | Posted by BellRinger at 2024-03-19 01:53 PM | Reply

Doesn't matter. All that's required is this person to claim to be trans and, voila - this person is trans.

#17 | Posted by BellRinger

Sure. And allowing gay marriage will lead to people marrying trees and dogs.

#18 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2024-03-19 02:16 PM | Reply

Doesn't matter. All that's required is this person to claim to be trans and, voila - this person is trans.

#17 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER

Did this guy have to claim he was trans to enter the locker room or did he just enter? Seems critical to evaluating whether the policy had anything to do with this guy's actions.

#19 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-03-19 02:21 PM | Reply

And allowing gay marriage will lead to people marrying trees and dogs.

#18 | POSTED BY SPEAKSOFTLY

If I marry a dogwood is that 2 for 1?

#20 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-03-19 02:21 PM | Reply

"Doesn't matter. All that's required is this person to claim to be trans and, voila - this person is trans."

OK.

That wouldn't seem to have anything to do with Georgia public indecency laws. You can claim to be whatever you want. I don't know that the courts will agree.

#21 | Posted by madbomber at 2024-03-19 02:28 PM | Reply

Doesn't matter. All that's required is this person to claim to be trans and, voila - this person is trans.

Sort of like how PO1135809 claims to be a Christian, and voil, he's a Christian!

or

All that's required is for Repubicans to claim they're the party of family values, and voil - rape and pedophilia are now family values!

This can be applied to any policy, rule, guideline...tourism in the Capitol Building.

#22 | Posted by chuffy at 2024-03-19 02:30 PM | Reply

" Notice Bellringer can't tell you WHICH policy?"
Their policy regarding males claiming to be trans to be granted access to women's locker rooms.
" Was the guy trans? Doesn't sound like it."
Doesn't matter. All that's required is this person to claim to be trans and, voila - this person is trans.

#17 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER

1. No, that's not the policy. And the policy has nothing to do with what happened.
2. The guy didn't claim to be Trans.

Jeff the Liar strikes again.

From the story:
The policy notes that if "a serious concern or significant doubt" about a person's transgender or nonbinary identity arises, Planet Fitness employees are encouraged to address their concerns with the club member. If that fails to resolve the concerns, staff may request "external evidence of the member's asserted gender identity." If a gym member "improperly asserts a gender identity," they may be asked to leave and their membership may be revoked, according to the fitness chain's policy.

#23 | Posted by Sycophant at 2024-03-19 02:30 PM | Reply

haha, the accent grave got stripped. Oh well, voila it is.

#24 | Posted by chuffy at 2024-03-19 02:31 PM | Reply

Ever notice how every conversation involving the "trans issue" lacks any discussion/feedback/insight from, you know, actual trans people?

#25 | Posted by chuffy at 2024-03-19 02:43 PM | Reply

" Planet Fitness employees are encouraged to address their concerns with the club member. If that fails to resolve the concerns, staff may request "external evidence of the member's asserted gender identity"

Who, as an employee, is actually going to be willing to have that conversation and how is such "external evidence" even obtained?

#26 | Posted by BellRinger at 2024-03-19 02:46 PM | Reply

Who, as an employee, is actually going to be willing to have that conversation and how is such "external evidence" even obtained?

#26 | Posted by BellRinger

Suddenly trumpers are opposed to asking to speak to the manager. What a twist.

#27 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2024-03-19 02:58 PM | Reply

Because men exposing themselves to underage women never outrages the left. Especially when said man is pretending to be a woman

#28 | Posted by THEBULL at 2024-03-19 03:40 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

PF is pretty much screwed. They wouldn't dare prevent a trannsenxial from going into the woman's locker room. So they get sued instead for *allowing the pen is carrier to waggle his boys at some 15 year old.
The left will howl about this being an isolated case, and tuff chyt for the girl.

#29 | Posted by phesterOBoyle at 2024-03-19 03:57 PM | Reply

" Planet Fitness employees are encouraged to address their concerns with the club member. If that fails to resolve the concerns, staff may request "external evidence of the member's asserted gender identity"
Who, as an employee, is actually going to be willing to have that conversation and how is such "external evidence" even obtained?

#26 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER

You can't defend your argument that the Policy is to blame, so you run to this?

I trust if a customer is making an issue, an employee will handle it just like they do with sexual harassment or people filming with camera phones.

#30 | Posted by Sycophant at 2024-03-19 04:01 PM | Reply

PF is pretty much screwed.

Maybe someone will go on a shooting spree like at the LA Fitness!

I think that's the desired outcome from people pushing this story

Because it's entirely non-controversial to 86 someone for taking pictures in the locker room.

#31 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-03-19 04:01 PM | Reply

Because men exposing themselves to underage women never outrages the left. Especially when said man is pretending to be a woman

The right has no problem with dudes exposing themselves to 15 year-olds in a bowling alley, just so long as he claims to be heterosexual. It's obviously the bowling alley's failed policy. The right thinks that's a-OK, and there's no reason not to elect the woman who marries the guy who got arrested for that ... then gave a handy in a theater with children in it. Good people, those righties!

#32 | Posted by chuffy at 2024-03-19 04:10 PM | Reply

As it stands, there is not a way to keep the biological men and women apart in the locker rooms/showers at PF. Or anywhere else.
The left shrugs it off with "BFD .. so what".
Normal clear thinking people saw this coming and were shouted down. Now comes the law suits. Maybe just *maybe now someone ... SCOTUS? will have to describe what a woman actually is.

#33 | Posted by phesterOBoyle at 2024-03-19 04:17 PM | Reply

Because men exposing themselves to underage women never outrages the left. Especially when said man is pretending to be a woman

#28 | Posted by THEBULL

What about when men burst into underage womens' dressing room at a beauty pageant to see them naked like your cult leader did?

#34 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2024-03-19 04:37 PM | Reply

"As it stands, there is not a way to keep the biological men and women apart in the locker rooms/showers at PF. Or anywhere else."

^
It's just like the Party of Small Government, to demand new laws, for a problem that only exists in their minds.

#35 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-03-19 04:39 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

As it stands, there is not a way to keep the biological men and women apart in the locker rooms/showers at PF. Or anywhere else.

You righties sure have a lot of hang ups. Must suck to live your life like that ...

#36 | Posted by chuffy at 2024-03-19 06:14 PM | Reply

"there is not a way"

What do you propose to remedy that? I bet it's making people drop their drawers for the government inspector. That's what they do in the Olympics.
What other solution could their possibly be?

#37 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-03-19 06:32 PM | Reply

Conservatives are stupid, $#!++y people

#38 | Posted by hamburglar at 2024-03-19 07:14 PM | Reply

"Trump bragged about doing that in beauty pageant dressing rooms. What's the problem?"

Exactly, why did anyone think that was a problem? Isn't the end goal to desegregate locker rooms?

We always joked about coed showers after gym class when I was in high school.

If you can dream it, you can do it.

#39 | Posted by sentinel at 2024-03-19 07:18 PM | Reply

If you can dream it, you can do it.

#39 | Posted by sentinel

Didn't think you'd ever join the DEFENDING SEXUAL PREDATORS side, but here we are.

#40 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2024-03-19 07:54 PM | Reply

A pedo gets busted exposing himself to children and the left is cool with it. ------- groomers. And their excuse? "What is a woman". It was a guy with a dick shaving his legs.

A woman has XX chromosomes. The trans just have a mental illness. They need therapy, not affirmation. Being crazy does not trump women's civil rights, period.

And 80% of child "transexuals" have autism. 80% are girls. The suicide rate rises after transition, and the gays and lesbians are calling it the "gay holocaust" because gay children are being falsely diagnosed. In one case, a young girl fell in love with her best friend, and was horrified to think she might be a lesbian. "Thank God they told me I'm transexual", she said.

I can't believe ---- like this is actually getting support from anyone.

#41 | Posted by HeliumRat at 2024-03-20 08:31 AM | Reply

"A pedo gets busted exposing himself to children and the left is cool with it."

I'm cool with him getting busted, yes.

#42 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-03-20 09:17 AM | Reply

A woman has XX chromosomes. The trans just have a mental illness. They need therapy, not affirmation. Being crazy does not trump women's civil rights, period.

This is an amazingly ignorant and bigoted load of nonsense. Educate yourself. Please.

#43 | Posted by YAV at 2024-03-20 09:32 AM | Reply

They should go back to the original meaning of gymnasium.

#44 | Posted by sentinel at 2024-03-20 09:36 AM | Reply

A pedo gets busted exposing himself to children and the left is cool with it. ------- groomers. And their excuse? "What is a woman". It was a guy with a dick shaving his legs.

#41 | POSTED BY HELIUMRAT

The guy wasn't trans. He didn't identify as trans/woman.

So what does this have to do with Trans people?

And I thought this was perfectly okay with Republicans based on Republicans voting trends for Lauren Boebert?

#45 | Posted by Sycophant at 2024-03-20 10:28 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Didn't he getting this idea from Mike Huckabee?
This is about an individual who broke the law. The fact they used the Trans thing to do it is irrelevant. We all drive cars, but if someone intentionally runs a person over, the driving laws aren't blamed.

#46 | Posted by TFDNihilist at 2024-03-20 10:58 AM | Reply

And of course we all know a man has never exposed himself to children before.

#47 | Posted by TFDNihilist at 2024-03-20 11:01 AM | Reply

Any person claiming to be a woman, biological or otherwise had better not have a -------. If one is there it needs to be permanently removed.

#48 | Posted by Robson at 2024-03-20 11:53 AM | Reply

Health clubs love it when you "boycott" them. It's actually part of their business plan.

Because they can still charge you your monthly fees if you don't show up.

#49 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-03-20 12:03 PM | Reply

This wouldn't even be an issue if genders weren't segregated in the first place and no one had to wear clothes unless it was under 60 F.

#50 | Posted by sentinel at 2024-03-20 12:04 PM | Reply

Any person claiming to be a woman, biological or otherwise had better not have a -------. If one is there it needs to be permanently removed.

#48 | Posted by Robson

This affects your life in what way?

#51 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2024-03-20 12:11 PM | Reply

Here's your reminder that the red states who are angriest about trans people are the states where the most people are watching trans porn.

What they're really angry about is their own attraction so they want to get rid of the thing that secretly turns them on.

news.yahoo.com
"Looks Like the Country's Most Transphobic States Are Really Into Trans Porn"

#52 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2024-03-20 12:14 PM | Reply

Any person claiming to be a woman, biological or otherwise had better not have a -------. If one is there it needs to be permanently removed.
#48 | Posted by Robson
This affects your life in what way?

#51 | POSTED BY SPEAKSOFTLY AT 2024-03-20 12:11 PM | REPLY

Their "-------" was bigger than his and he got offended.

#53 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2024-03-20 12:16 PM | Reply

#51 "This affects your life in what way?"

I don't claim to be a woman, and then oddly have and display male equipment, and then claim I should have right to be a cultural perv and parade in front of and frighten young girls or women. The left has gone full bore bat --- crazy by culturally perverting society and then claiming those who live within norms of society in their mind are evil and wrong. The left has made it known and demonstrated they are the intolerant crazed ones. One solution is to laugh at them and pay them no mind unless they bother others. But instead they thrive on bothering others and creating fear and turmoil. Then they need institutionalized as has been done for centuries. Planet Fitness is wrong.

#54 | Posted by Robson at 2024-03-20 12:31 PM | Reply

#48 | Posted by Robson
This affects your life in what way?

#51 | POSTED BY SPEAKSOFTLY AT 2024-03-20 12:11 PM | REPLY

Their "-------" was bigger than his and he got offended.

#53 | POSTED BY ALEXANDRITE

He gets too excited and gets so "provoked" that he can't control himself when he sees a long -------.

But I swear I heard a gun nut recently say it was perfectly ok to to "provoke" other people with your big long guns and that if you get provoked by other peoples big long guns it's your own fault.

#55 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-03-20 12:34 PM | Reply

Planet Fitness is in the right not allowing photos in locker rooms. But wrong to allow the binary opposite sex in locker rooms. Anyone doing that needs banned and arrested for the same reason others have been charged for decades with public indecency.

#56 | Posted by Robson at 2024-03-20 12:38 PM | Reply

#51 "This affects your life in what way?"

I don't claim to be a woman, and then oddly have and display male equipment, and then claim I should have right to be a cultural perv and parade in front of and frighten young girls or women. The left has gone full bore bat --- crazy by culturally perverting society and then claiming those who live within norms of society in their mind are evil and wrong. The left has made it known and demonstrated they are the intolerant crazed ones. One solution is to laugh at them and pay them no mind unless they bother others. But instead they thrive on bothering others and creating fear and turmoil. Then they need institutionalized as has been done for centuries. Planet Fitness is wrong.

#54 | Posted by Robson

And this effects your life in what way?

You can't stop thinking about chicks with dicks and getting aroused so you're mad at them for turning you on?

#57 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2024-03-20 12:54 PM | Reply

"effects"

Affects.

#58 | Posted by sentinel at 2024-03-20 07:15 PM | Reply

You can't stop thinking about chicks with dicks and getting aroused so you're mad at them for turning you on?

#57 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2024-03-20 12:54 PM | Reply | Flag:

Sounds more like a SpeakStupid fetish.

#59 | Posted by globriel at 2024-03-20 09:53 PM | Reply

The suspect did in fact tell Planet Fitness he identifies as a woman. Does that make him trans? Or just a liar? Where is the line?

#60 | Posted by Miranda7 at 2024-03-21 10:39 AM | Reply

"Where is the line?"

Looks like the line is taking pictures in the locker room.

Unless you can show me the law that enforces gender discrimination in locker rooms. Which I don't think you are going to be able to do.

#61 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-03-21 11:06 AM | Reply

Let's be real for a second.

If the anti-trans people have their way, their little girls will be in locker rooms with this person.

www.google.com

or this person

olympics.com

Is that what they want?

I would argue, no.

So, the alternatives are a variation of what we have now-i.e. people using their expressed genders OR we outlaw transgenderism (which I would argue is an impossibility).

There is a 3rd way-the logical way, which is to do away with communal private spaces. I am not comfortable with my child (will be grandchildren soon enough I suppose), with strangers in any private space.

#62 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-03-21 11:33 AM | Reply

Olympics.com.

Pat Manuel is impressive AF.

#63 | Posted by YAV at 2024-03-21 01:52 PM | Reply

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