Gyms Face Dilemma When Accommodating Transgender Clients

[stephaniec]

Gyms Face Dilemma When Accommodating Transgender Clients

http://hereandnow.wbur.org/2015/10/05/gym-locker-rooms-transgender

Here And Now/ with Robin Young and Jeremy Hobson   10/05/2015

Hilde Lindemann, professor of philosophy at Michigan State University.
Jamie Nelson, professor of bioethics at Michigan State University.


"Earlier this year Planet Fitness canceled a woman's membership after she complained that a transgender woman's presence in the locker room made her feel unsafe. She's now suing the gym chain. Planet Fitness says it was not her complaint that led to the decision, but her showing up three days in a row to warn other customers about "a man in the locker room."

A UCLA study estimates there are about 700,000 Americans who identify as transgender. And as transgender people become more visible in society, businesses are increasingly facing tough questions about how to accommodate them."

[stephaniec]

intelligent discussion

[suzifrommd]

I didn't like the answer to the question about all genders allowed in all restrooms.

I do not feel comfortable telling cisgender women they can't go to a women's room and cisgender men that they can't go to a men's room. I think one of the fears people have about us is that we're out to get rid of single sex restrooms.

I'm not willing to tell people that shouldn't be more comfortable with single-sex restrooms. Who am I to judge what someone else should or shouldn't be comfortable with?