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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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.
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I wanted to respond to this specifically. In this case, Planet Fitness canceled the membership of someone who did not respect their policy of gender expression and locker rooms. That person complained and when she did not receive the satisfaction she wanted, she returned to the business multiple times to "warn" other patrons of the establishment about the presence of a trans woman in the locker room.

In the other situations you mentioned, businesses have been penalized for refusing service to individuals on the basis of those individuals' membership in a protected class. Those businesses are within their rights to refuse service to someone who does not respect their policies or conform to their belief system. Individuals who have a problem with that are within their rights to vote with their feet. The same is true for PF: if you have a problem with a business being friendly to transgender people, you are welcome to patronize another business whose policies and beliefs are more in line with your own.

What you are not welcome to do is return to the place of business and harass other patrons. If a person approached me at the gym to "warn" be that a trans woman was also a member of the gym, I would say "Great, I'm glad they care about fitness. Please leave me alone." If the person persisted in the conversation, I would feel harassed and would complain to the management. [/quote]

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