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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Planet Fitness doesn't have to "warn" anybody of anything.

The woman who was dropped violated reestablishes company policy. I don't see any problem there, and she's not seeking reinstatement of her membership, anyway.

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So we allow businesses like Planet Fitness to turn people away because they complain, aren't politically correct, disagree with sharing a changing facility with a person who is not biologically female,
But we say that other businesses cannot turn people away when they place orders that disagree with the owner's conscience.  We penalize bakers who won't bake cakes for gay weddings, flower arrangements, etc.

I'm a big LGBT supporter and I would not have done what the woman in this situation did.  However I do think that figuring out where one person's rights end and another person's rights begin is very tricky.  Of course  I don't want anyone to be policing public restrooms for X and Y chromosomes, however an actual locker room where you are in a large open room, getting naked, taking showers, with my naked kids, etc., I don't want a male in there, however he claims to self-identify.  Just as I don't want moms bringing in little boys over a certain age.  That's why they have a family dressing room (at my gym).

I think that like other laws that apply to businesses over a certain size, businesses with more than x number of employees should have to accommodate all comers.  So just as the pharmacy has to have someone on staff who will dispense your birth control if the pharmacist has a conscientious objection, a florist has to have someone to fill the orders for gay weddings etc. once they have a certain number of employees.

Not sure how to resolve an understandable wish for same-gender locker rooms and self-identification that might not match biology.  [/quote]

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