A few short years ago, it was “Believe All Women.” Today, not so much. Now, it’s “believe men who think they are women.”
Planet Fitness is on the record saying that the photo circulating online of a man in the women’s locker room at the Planet Fitness franchise in Fairbanks is fake.
A person from the Libs of TikTok account on X/Twitter called Planet Fitness and asked if the photo was real. The Planet Fitness person, identified as JuJu, responded that it is not real.
“People can take anything online and turn it,” said JuJu. “So we had to, of course, they did a full investigation and that’s why I say based on our nondiscrimination policy, we don’t discriminate against anybody — alien, monster, nobody.”
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When asked to elaborate, JuJu said, “There was a big meeting about it .. and it’s just crazy how much social media can really fool you.”
“Was that a real photo of someone in a Planet Fitness bathroom,” the interviewer said, drilling down further.
“No,” JuJu replied. “No that was not. No. Nope … We were shocked too. And yeah, they had to pull apart the picture and that’s not in the Planet Fitness restroom at all.”
Must Read Alaska spoke with longtime Fairbanks resident Patricia Silva, who took the first photo and posted it online. Not only is the photo real, she said, there’s another photo that a separate client of Planet Fitness has taken of the same man on a subsequent day.
And now there is an account from a third woman, who says that Fairbanks’ Planet Fitness has assigned a staff member to accompany the man into the women’s restroom. When confronted, the staff member told the woman if she was uncomfortable, she should dress in a toilet stall.
Silva said that the attempt to discredit her is a form of retaliation.
“We fought hard for women’s right. Women [suffragettes] in 1848 were jailed and beaten. We’re going backward allowing this new cult to take from us, remove our rights,” Silva said. “It’s like they are the chosen ones to be given preference and favor.
“I truly feel across the board you are a God-birthed child, born male or female, and you have options. This group — we’ll call them transgender or nonbinary — are just as important as me and you,” she said.
“My message to Planet Fitness is if they want to create a safe space, they should create a third space for trans and non-binary They’re telling us that we are not as important, that we have to find a place to hide in if we want our privacy, that this man has all the rights and you, as a woman, are not as important, so you need to remove yourself.”
“Planet Fitness is now slandering and defaming me, my experience, and silencing women’s concerns for their safety in order to protect the current loss of their assets. I have not once slandered or defamed Planet Fitness or this male individual in any video or interview,” Silva said. “I am an advocate for safe spaces for all people. Male, female, transgender and non-binary. They cannot coexist in the same space in order to create a safe space.”
Silva’s membership was cancelled by Planet Fitness after she posted the photo of the man who was shaving at a sink in the women’s locker room, with a young girl nearby. Since then, she has heard from many people who state they have cancelled their gym memberships at the franchise.
