Rabid anti-trans trolls have issued bomb threats against 53 gyms...

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Rabid anti-trans trolls have issued bomb threats against 53 gyms following Libs of TikTok attacks

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/rabid-anti-trans-trolls-have-issued-bomb-threats-against-53-gyms-following-libs-of-tiktok-attacks/ar-AA1nOYo9?ocid=windirect&cvid=e938f2cfb8a6403b8ac9c221d95aeb3e&ei=51

Story by John Russell (28 April 2024)

Planet Fitness locations across the country have continued to receive bomb threats in the wake of an anti-transgender boycott campaign spearheaded by anti-LGBTQ+ hate influencer Chaya Raichik's Libs of TikTok social media accounts. Media Matter reports that at least 53 Planet Fitness locations in 20 states have now reported receiving bomb threats.

Raichik began posting about the national gym chain in mid-March after Patricia Silva, a cisgender Alaska woman, claimed that her Planet Fitness membership had been revoked due to her complaints about a transgender woman using the women's locker room. However, in a statement, Planet Fitness said that Silva had been banned because she violated the gym's mobile device policy, which prohibits taking photos of people in locker rooms. Silva reportedly took a picture of the trans woman in the locker room and posted it online.

In recent weeks, Raichik's Libs of TikTok X account "has continued to post about the gym, attempting to generate outrage by accusing Planet Fitness of a range of offenses, including 'discriminating against White people,' 'grooming kids,' 'putting a mentally ill man's delusions before women's safety,' and allowing 'people to act out their s*xual f*tishes in public,'" Media Matters reported.