Oh look! Planet Fitness is back in the news, and like before, not in a good way. A man named Christopher Allan Miller “allegedly” went into a female locker room at a Planet Fitness in North Carolina, stripped naked in front of teens in that locker, then asked a teen girl to rub lotion over his nude body and shower with him. The first question I asked, was this Joe Biden, but it wasn’t. Miller claims to identify as a female. He was later arrested.
Sources told Channel 9 that Miller asked a woman to rub lotion and shower together.
“And is that man still there?” the dispatcher said.
“Yeah, he is still in the bathroom,” the caller said. “It’s a man but he says he identifies as a woman, and he won’t leave the restroom. But he is just walking around showing us his — and he won’t leave.”
Miller was harassing women in the gym before the arrest, sources told Channel 9.
Member Betty Brice is upset that Miller reportedly claimed to identify as a woman as a reason to stay in the ladies’ locker room.
“I think a woman should be able to go into a woman’s bathroom without a man coming in saying he’s transgender,” Brice said.
Clark Simon, the former president of Charlotte Pride, said Planet Fitness’ inclusivity policy was made so that transgender people feel welcome, too.
“When you do that you, create a sense of safety, security, and affirmation for them to be able to do the things that everybody else is able to do,” he said.