If you're reading anything I write during the week, odds are it was written from the lounge area of my gym. Why? Because I get up every single day, take my youngest to school, and drive to the gym to write before I work out. That's my routine because I know myself. If I said, "I'll just go to the gym after I pick up my son," it would rarely — if ever — happen.
Losing weight isn't easy. It requires discipline, self-control, and changes in habits and mindsets in order for the process to be successful. And absent the use of weight-loss drugs like Ozempic (which I oppose for a variety of reasons), the process takes time, and the mantra has to be "progress, not perfection."
That's why I'm thankful my gym not only has decent Wi-Fi and a place where I can work, but also sex-segregated locker rooms and a "family" locker room with private showers/changing rooms. Going to the gym is tough enough and it's made harder by places like Planet Fitness, where my comfort and my safety are given a backseat to the rights of "trans women."
As my colleague Jeff reported, a "trans woman" was caught pleasuring himself in the bathroom of a Planet Fitness recently. It was caught on video, and it wasn't hard to see what the man in question was doing. When confronted by a woman and staff, the man fell back on the argument, "I'm trans! I can do what I want!"
That argument is absurd on its face, of course.
To that end, I'll point out that there's a Planet Fitness within walking distance of my house. I instead drive the 25 minutes to my gym to avoid situations like the one Jeff wrote about.
But now it appears that it's Planet Fitness' official, written policy that the "judgment-free zone" allows employees to judge women who don't want men masturbating in their bathrooms and locker rooms.
Planet Fitness puts in writing that women’s discomfort is not a reason to ban men from their changing rooms.
— Jennifer 🟥🔴🧙♀️🦉🐈⬛ 🦖 (@babybeginner) January 7, 2026
They say they will tell their employees to coerce the women to “foster a climate of understanding” or kick them out.
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The irony of this policy, of course, is that Planet Fitness does take discomfort into consideration. When the person in question is a "trans woman," this policy is predicated on the belief that the guy caught masturbating in the women's locker room would be uncomfortable in the men's locker room (likely because he couldn't get away with such a lewd act). So the gym giant does believe in protecting the comfort of some members. Just not women.
It's been very clear for a while that in the great "transgender rights" debate, women always — invariably — lose. Many feminists, who loathe everything that makes them women, seem fine with this usurpation of our gender. They applaud the use of gross, dehumanizing euphemisms for women like "womb owner," "birthing persons," "egg producers," and "inseminated individuals," and they cheer when men are named "Woman of the Year" and nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award.
When our daughters lose championships to boys, or girls like Payton McNabb suffer a traumatic brain injury after a "trans girl" spikes a volleyball into her face, they laugh (as "journalist" Emma Vigeland did). or when girls refuse to change in front of boys in the locker room, school officials force them to, in the name of "tolerance," these feminists just nod and say that's the price other people's children have to pay so they can tell their book club friends how "inclusive" they really are.
Women's comfort and safety do not matter to these people. Not one iota.
What matters is the feelings of mentally ill, sexually perverted men. Men like Richard Cox, who made a point of using his "trans identity" to gain access to women and girls' locker rooms in Virginia and expose himself to them (and got sympathy for it!), or Tshikundi Taty in Maryland who used "trans" policies to film women in gym locker rooms, or Rohan De Silva in Wisconsin, who was caught masturbating in his car near a Racine high school after using the women's locker room. These men are also given access to our prisons, too, where they're often incarcerated for violent, sex-based crimes. They demand access to maternity wards, lactation groups, and women's shelters as well — and far to many are eager to grant them such access in the name of "DEI."
Women who object to this are called "TERFs" (short for "trans-exclusionary reactionary feminist) at best. Or they're punished at their workplaces (including termination), charged with crimes, or threatened with death and violence.
The message from the Left on this issue has been very clear for years: you women don't matter. Your comfort doesn't matter. Your health and safety don't matter. Your psychological well-being doesn't matter.
You have to be uncomfortable, you have to tolerate abuse, and you have to shut up about it. Or else.
Planet Fitness has a written policy to bar from membership women who find it uncomfortable to be in the presence of a masturbating man in their locker rooms.
Frankly, getting banned from Planet Fitness would probably be a blessing, at this point. No woman should voluntarily maintain her membership at a place that despises you, anyway.
