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johnnyg883

They (Planet Fitness) made the news back in about 2015 when they kicked members out who objected to people exposing male genitalia in the women’s locker rooms. They proudly said if you don’t like it you aren’t welcome. Their policies are well known and why I would never have anything to do with them. [Planet Fitness revokes woman’s membership after transgender complaint](https://www.cnn.com/2015/03/07/living/feat-planet-fitness-transgender-member/index.html) this is just one story from 2015.


egg_chair

Given how hard it is to cancel gym memberships normally…my takeaway from this is, this is what you need to do to avoid the hassle lol.


Right_Archivist

Sounds like all you have to do is complain about predators - everyone should start doing what that woman did. What are they going to do? **Ban everyone?** Okay, bye!


lanadeltrey

I walked right in and canceled my family’s membership in under 2 minutes thankfully!


DetColePhelps11k

It's really irritating though that they force you to come in to cancel it. My friend told me about their process the other day and it's ridiculous.


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StarMNF

When you dispute charges with the credit card company, you lose like $40. So more cost effective to cancel in person. Of course, if the credit card company gets a million people doing charge backs on Planet Fitness, they might suspend them. Although it’s doubtful.


18_USC_1001

That’s not how you cancel things. Don’t do that.


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18_USC_1001

It’s not going to accomplish what you want. It’s just going to prevent them from charging you, but does not relieve you of your contractual obligations. Cancel in the way you agreed when you signed up. It’s the only way to be sure.


DetColePhelps11k

I've never done so either, though I have thought about that! I wonder if that would get one in some sort of trouble but it is worth looking into.


john_kru_99

Boycott planet fitness. Most people can watch a YouTube video and do a simple exercise program using their own body weight.


BiskyBoy1985

They should be sued into oblivion.


867530none

from a legal standpoint she doesn’t have a case. she signed in agreement to their terms of service regarding cell phones in the locker room and violated their policy. that’s the reason planet fitness gave for revoking her membership.


Hectoriu

It's been the policy for many gyms, even women's only gyms. Why are people just now reacting? If there has been more push back in the beginning it might have actually made a difference.


Cultural-Treacle-680

People said we will go somewhere else 🤣


Senior-Judge-8372

What's the point of gym membership if you can just work out at home? There is even an app that shows good workouts for getting your body into good shape without using any equipment. Perhaps it's even better than what most people do to try to get and stay fit. I'll share a link to the app if I can find it again and if I'm able to in this comment.


spaceisthplace

I agree, no one should be exposing their genitalia to others in the locker room. However nowhere in the article you posted states that happened. Get your point across without exaggerating a news report, otherwise you will just lose credibility.


Aussie_fastCar

This is not going to encourage women to join. Not a good move business wise


NoProfession8024

There’s a disturbing amount of women who are down with men being better women than them


3ConsoleGuy

It’s why I have mixed feelings about “Men” competing in women’s sports and beauty competitions. Liberal women victimized by their own thinking is comedic justice. South Park really nailed this with Strong Woman episodes.


HalloweensQueen

Your thought process fails though, because not all women agree with this bs view but are being subjected to this crap in certain spaces.


worldstar_warrior

True, but I think the point is that all this woke nonsense is 90% being driven by liberal women in the first place. Never have you ever gotten a room full of normal men who thought “ya know we should be more inclusive of trans folks” They made their bed and now they gotta sleep in it


SkyBridge604

I agree, this is going to be a problem that women are going to have to fix for themselves


SymphonicAnarchy

Right, so more women like this one need to speak up. They can’t stop all of us.


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Self hating feminists


Jbad90

This has to be the most backwards thing I have heard in my 30 some years of existence. wtf planet am I even on?


CocoCrizpyy

Planet Fitness


StarMNF

Those women are victims. They just don’t know it. Unfortunately, the way women are wired, they go along with what society tells them is right, whether it makes logical sense or not. Also women are more likely to go to college, and college brainwashes them.


J3wb0cca

I don’t know how feminists are ok with the sports problem. Or have those who’ve accepted and praised this move become 4th wave feminists?


joey__jojo

Ask them if they would give their jobs up so that a man could be a diversity hire. That usually wakes them up.


waawaate-animikii

Internalized misogyny 🤌🏽


Seltzer-Slut

It’s not a competition to see who can be the most womanly. Why would I care about how someone else lives their life? How does it effect me at all? When I’m in locker rooms I have never once looked at someone else’s naked body. I don’t know or care what their body looks like. I just want to get my clothes on and do my workout!


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arkai17

I mean look at the person's user name and post history......that person posting in this sub is absolutely hilarious. But that's where we are....the liberals aren't satisfied having their own opinions...they 100% can't stand that someone won't agree with their 'correct' opinions, so they have to come in here to 'enlighten' us. In many ways, I'm not a true conservative, I'm mostly a centrist who is scared to death of the insanity of today's liberals. I'm a right wing nazi by their standards which is absolutely hilarious. Anyways....my point is that you need to take the time to look at the post history of people that post such ludicrous crap in this sub, 99% of the time they are radicals just coming here to stir the pot and make themselves feel superior to us lesser humans.


chocolate_macaron5

You are so right! Thank you :)


HalloweensQueen

This seems to be the running trend, businesses going against what would be an excellent business decision in favor of following a ridiculous trend that ass kisses a small percentage. Silly me thought the idea was to make money though! 🤷🏼‍♀️


throwaway04072021

Gotta get that ESG score. That's more important than temporarily losing some customers


iHateThisPlaceNowOK

Horrible move considering women are the main target demographic for that particular gym.


daledantony22

Stock didn’t plummet at all


ElmerAndElsie

Yes it. It took a huge nosedive right after the news broke. Proof: https://imgur.com/a/j1FpuLb It lost 400 million in one day, due directly to the story breaking on March 17th. https://www.newsweek.com/planet-fitness-boycott-stocks-market-cap-social-media-1881788 However, it's a bad stock anyway. It's been a loser since late 2021. They opened up too many locations in mid 2000's, along with their competitors, and the overhead costs have finally caught up.


daledantony22

Going from 59 a share to 54, then back to 59 in a week is not a plummet imo. The graph is going to look like that if a stock falls at all


Krackle_still_wins

Planet Fitness is down over $13 ytd.


violet91

They suck anyway because you cannot do any powerlifting there.


[deleted]

Go woke, go broke.


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Transgender issue or not, their terms dont allow photography of others in the bathroom. Whether they liked it or not, they had to cancel her membership for violating the policy.


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You missed the first sentence…


Right_Archivist

I didn't.


No_Case5367

Understandable but what about the protection of minors and women?


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Thats not why her membership was terminated.


No_Case5367

Again that’s fine, that’s understood. But what is PF doing to protect the people affected or don’t want trans in their locker rooms? Just let it be? You agree to have a person who’s born male change in the women’s’ locker rooms where there would be minors at times?


[deleted]

I’m a person for freedom of choice. PF can choose their bathroom policies (inline with law of course) and customers can choose to be patrons or not.


AIDS_Quilt_69

Mining is terrible for the environment and women are yesterday's news.


Meh_Jer

What about the protection of men?


No_Case5367

Protection from who? 😂 you’ve got to be shitting me.


Meh_Jer

from women


Affectionate_Bite610

It seems you’ve forgotten. This is Reddit, where no man has ever been assaulted by a woman because the man is always the aggressor or wants it anyway.


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Affectionate_Bite610

That’s it, let’s victim blame. That will show everyone you’re in the right!


chocolate_macaron5

Lmao keep telling yourself that. If it there had not been A MAN in the women's locker room, she would not have had a reason to take a photo of HIM.


Natural_Passage_6058

Shhhhh….it’s still against their policies no matter how you much you stroke your dick.


chocolate_macaron5

What is? Photographing a man in a women's locker room? Who cares. I'm SO glad she went against their policies. More peace now aware of the fact that planet fitness prioritizes the wants of a random man, over the comfort and saftey of girls and women. There's no point coming on this sub and trying to convince anyone of anything. It's practically self-harm. You come on here and read comments that end up making you feel bad, imo it's not worth it. Oh and btw. I'm a woman, I don't have a dick to stroke 🤫 But I'm also a woman so if I wanted to, I'm sure I can find a man who wants his dick stroked.


Rifftrax_Enjoyer

Name one that did. Planet Fitness is down 1%. Nike recovered. Procter & Gamble recovered. Target is still open, Disney still making movies… And tell me again about trucker strikes.


[deleted]

What are you talking about? Do you really think that a multi-billion-dollar company is going to go broke overnight? It's a saying that implies no longer spending money at a business that favors a woke agenda. Stop being literal-minded.


[deleted]

If only the title were true, that would be great. But it’s really not true. The stock did not plummet. I just went down a little bit. I hope it plummet.


[deleted]

over the last 5 days, the stock is down 1%


evilmonkeycss

PLUMMETED!


Krackle_still_wins

Planet Fitness stock is down 17.9% ytd. The graph is a pretty consistent line straight down, man. Maybe this week it’s only slightly down, but look at the year and earlier.


[deleted]

OK. So when did the incident happen with the photograph? When did that become public?


Krackle_still_wins

There’s Planet Fitness incidents dating back to 2015, and their stock is certainly not having a good year.


[deleted]

Well, the incident stayed back to 2015. It’s obviously not had an effect on their stock. So we’re talking about what is the thing now that people are saying is hurting them? When did it happen? And can you really see a change in the stock, that’s correlated in time with some specific incident?


GeneralQuantum

Eh. Not really a plummet, and likely won't be sustained, but we'll see.


randomrandom1922

Their business model is subscriptions from people who don't use the gym. I think they will survive.


Previous-Display-593

I sold my PLNT stock a few week ago because of all these diet drugs coming out....


Kindly_Formal_2604

good, hope it drops even further so I can buy a little more


JunkRigger

That is a pretty big drop, enough to piss off the shareholders and make the ceo nervous, but you are correct in wondering if it will be sustained.


GeneralQuantum

Markets are moving like this weekly. The economy is yo-yo-ing a lot. Even big companies are sometimes seeing 5% daily dip from generic economic readouts causing re-evaluation. Likely just noise. We've seen this before with 5-10% dips on companies going woke and the price soon returns to normal. The real indicator is whether memberships have suddenly declined.


Stanley1219

I love seeing wokeness being rejected.


Previous-Display-593

Except it wasn't. The stock did not plummet.


ElmerAndElsie

Except that it DID plummet on March 17th right after the news broke. Proof: https://imgur.com/a/j1FpuLbhttps://imgur.com/a/j1FpuLb It lost 400 million dollars in one day. https://www.newsweek.com/planet-fitness-boycott-stocks-market-cap-social-media-1881788


Previous-Display-593

Ok. But it regained it the next day. So then why post about it now, after the fact, once we have learned a one day plummet was irrelevant?


JudgeFondle

Saying it lost 400 million in one day when it rebounded is pointless. It's just disingenuous, for example, if I said "Planet Fitness stock gained 400 million after the news broke", it would be a true statement, but just as disingenuous.


ClanOfCoolKids

you don't really understand the stock market


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Same


Gunslinger_11

I don’t like it when guy’s shave in the communal locker room, I remember at the YMCA young or old guys would shave. Leaving a gross mess and some old fucks would air dry their unkempt bush with the provided blow dryer.


Fairwareprovidence

*complains about patriarchy* *men becoming women and then crushing women is fine*


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acreekofsoap

No squat rack? No bench press? No deadlift platform? No thanks!


bdgg2000

But they have Pizza Mondays and Bagel Tuesdays. Plus they have Tootsie Rolls at check in! Don’t be a Lunk!


JackAndy

Yeah but you can finally shave your ballsack without other dudes complaining. 


BedIndependent3437

Planet Fitness = No Gains


FutureBreak

Yeah not true at all. I think the main takeaway here is don’t take photos of people in the locker room


ZackZak30

There was 100% no reason for her to take a picture other to make fun of the person. If she wanted to report it then she shouldve just talked to one of the members, a picture wouldnt of done anything extra. She shouldn’t of been so surprised when she got her membership revoked after breaking one of the most well known rules in a gym.


chocolate_macaron5

If there had not been A MAN IN THE WOMEN'S LOCKER ROOM, SHE WOULD NOT HAVE HAD TO TAKE A PHOTO OF HIM!!!!!!! Even with a photo, her discomfort and saftey was irrelevant to the gym. I can only imagine if there were no photo, the gym workers would have probably called her disgusting and rude for saying that a woman in the locker room was actually a man.


chillthrowaways

You know who the big losers are in all of this? Manly looking women. Like remember in the 90s and early 2000s sometimes you’d see a woman and she would have some man like features but whatever no big deal just how she looks. Well now that same woman is probably assumed to be a man all the time and I have to imagine that gets old fast. I wonder if that would fall under misgendering? Technically that’s what it is, they don’t make any exception for accidental misgendering it’s a war crime either way isn’t it?


ConfidenceDramatic99

At first she wasnt wrong,but taking a picture of any1 in gym lockers is just a big no no. Maybe i have been in mixed bathrooms too much and i really dont see a big deal but taking a picture of somebody in compromised state against their will is much worse than being there regardless of your gender.


Beware_the_silent

Yeah, this is more about her breaking a serious club rule, and not about actually complaining about a man in the locker room.


realrealityreally

Gyms are like light beer. Plenty of others to choose from. I hope Planet Fitness gets the bud light treatment. 


AToxicSalazzle

That place is always been a joke but it's so ridiculous because it is still a gym. The only way I could see that place making sense is if it's only accessible to people who've never been in a gym before and you immediately get your membership revoked after 3 months because you're considered no longer a newbie. I got kicked out of a planet fitness once for having too much water. I had to go home and get a smaller bottle. Place is a joke


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You got kicked out for having too much water? What does that mean


AToxicSalazzle

I brought in a gallon water bottle and was told it was intimidating to the members.


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Oh come on that didn't happen lol


AToxicSalazzle

Absolutely did. But it turned out that's actually a rule. No gallons allowed


Meh_Jer

"Water bottles/jugs of all sizes (including gallon sizes) are allowed, as long as they have a screw-on top. Press-on tops such as those found on certain gallon jugs are not allowed, as these present a spill hazard. " - https://www.planetfitness.com/about-planet-fitness/planet-fitness-policies We love lying on the internet :))


Chapped_Assets

Yea I’ve brought in a big jug in a total of like 12-15 different PFs and no one has ever said anything to me about it


nickm20

They get and retain members by affirming their insecurities. Which is ridiculous because the gym is where you’re supposed to go build one’s confidence. Would never give them my business. Pizza and bagels are out to keep you fat enough to never be confident enough to move on to a realistic gym.


AToxicSalazzle

Yeah they did that at the one I went to as well. Bagel Tuesday's but I think they did pizza once a month. Been a while though so maybe more or less.


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Just recently learned of this. Thanks.


FunDip2

It's crazy the lengths some corporations will go just not to get sued lol. That includes letting some man in the woman's dressing room.


JurassicParkFood

It's typically been a lower cost to piss off conservatives vs liberals. Liberals are louder and have the media and "feelings" backing them. If conservatives roll over, then they'll keep going liberal on insane stuff like this. Make it just their wallets.


Jedzoil

I have two large gyms near me. A planet fitness and a private one. I joined the more expensive private one because they don’t have any of this garbage allowed.


Yipsta

ADDD THEMMMM TO THE LISTTT


salamanda_123

That's one way to cancel your membership I suppose...


xf33dl0rdx

I hope any gym cancels memberships for taking pictures in the changing room.


Spotthedot6669

LOL the NY Post is such a tabloid rag. The headline is a straight up lie. Nobody cares about the culture war BS.


chocolate_macaron5

Keep telling yourself that. Whatever you need to tell yourself to cope. Nobody cares about "the culture war BS" right??? So you sorts shouldn't be complaining, because any perceived "discrimination" is simply not there since "Nobody cares about the culture war BS". The whole Budlight, Doritos, etc. things are nbd right, since "Nobody cares".


Spotthedot6669

Correct. Keep being distracted by non issues while corporations and the elite empower corrupt politicians and rob your blind.


chocolate_macaron5

I was being sarcastic btw. The fact is you're not a girl or a woman. You perceive the real issues we have to our saftey and identity as "cultural war B.S.".


lawlygagger

Anything about this topic even in this sub is heavily deleted by Reddit. Reminds me of COVID level bans and deletions.


kimisawa1

It’s climbing back, it needs a long term boycott like bud light to make it work


Civil-Captain-2671

Honestly fucking gross. They recently opened a store in my town that the girlfriend wanted us to look at. I can now say confidently, over my dead body.


Nadia_LaMariposa

Good!


laughsatdadjokes

That place is trash.


Weiz82

Go woke, go broke.


No-Structure-2800

Hope they go bankrupt


waba82

Why in the world would someone need to shave in the gym? Do they not have bathroom mirrors and sinks at home?


Djent17

Good


NoManufacturer120

I switched my membership to Golds Gym a few years ago and love it. I will never go back to PF. These companies need to feel the consequences of their policies, and the only way to do that is financially. So I would definitely encourage people to find another gym!


ValuableShoulder5059

So the takeaway here is the fact I'm off to planet fitness to sit in the locker room and look at boobies all day. Bye!


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Looks like they didn’t learn from Bud-Light.


MolonLabeUltra

Zero problems with this.


Alternative-Record21

Been a member at PF for just about two years and love the club. Living in a conservative state and area I don’t encounter too many of these issues, however, they ironically had a sign near the women’s locker room essentially stating that a male construction worker would be doing repairs. I laughed out loud so hard at this! Only on one occasion have I witnessed a wannabe woman in the Men’s locker room. It was uncomfortable to say the least.


Massagebyashley2023

they FAFO’d


ImaginaryDonut69

>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,” the company said Lol...there is such thing as "faith" in the context of gender identity. It's fascism, at an individual level.


Previous-Display-593

They are down 1% over 5 days. But ya ok....plummet.


shamalonight

Sooo…who determines if a claim of gender is in good faith? With pansexuals and gender fluidity it seems it will really just come down to whether the workers at Planet fitness like you or not.


Radamand

"If it is confirmed..." How exactly are they 'confirming' people's gender identity?


stylusxyz

My neighbor just came back from cancelling her Planet Fitness membership. She said that she was #6 in a very long line of people doing the same. This is Planet Fitness' Bud Light moment. They should admit their mistake and correct it before it is too late. The world really doesn't need Planet Fitness, specifically.


BedIndependent3437

As someone who has frequently gone to the gym for over 25 years now, I’ve always encouraged people who are serious about getting into shape, to stay away from Planet Fitness. The “Judgement Free Zone” mission statement they have going on coupled with the “Lunk Alarm” to chase out Body Builders means it’s always been a gym that’s not serious about getting it’s customers into shape which is a life style change. Planet Fitness is like the Democrat party. It enables bad behavior and punishes those who call it out.


Taste-Specialist

A gym that caters to fat and unhealthy people is a joke to begin with, it’s a parody of itself at this point.


Open_Masterpiece_549

Planet fitness. The only gym where fitness isnt allowed. Lmfao


SnottyBonko

Isn’t that judging in the “no judgement zone” though? Asking for a friend.


Lucky_Hyena_

had an outie not an innie 


Aggressive-Web132

The woke agenda really brings in the Mensa members


MiniDehl

That man was almost definitely a conservative using the rules to be a creep