Planet Fitness outlets receive bomb threats after far right derides gym policy

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: The Guardian

Sat 13 Apr 2024 07.00 EDT


More than 40 Planet Fitness locations across the country have received bomb threats after a conservative movement against the gym’s trans-inclusive locker room policy went viral online. In the weeks since the backlash against the gym chain started in March, at least 43 locations in Connecticut, Florida, Alabama and other states have received bomb threats, according to progressive media watchdog group Media Matters.

The group said that swift social media backlash, centering on anti-trans rhetoric, is reminiscent of last year’s boycott against Bud Light. Sales of the beer brand fell last year after the company partnered with trans influencer Dylan Mulvaney in an advertisement.

Planet Fitness said in a statement that the company has “been working closely with local and federal authorities to investigate these threats and will continue to take action to ensure the safety of our members and employees”.

The backlash started with the rightwing social media account Libs of TikTok posting on X a video of a woman saying that there was “a man shaving in a women’s bathroom” at her Planet Fitness location in Fairbanks, Alaska.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/13/planet-fitness-bomb-threats-libs-of-tiktok

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That "Libs" account needs to be banned.

[niyad]

1. May all involved receive everything they deserve.

[twodogsbarking]

2. Bomb threats deserve the maximum sentence.

[wolfie001]

3. Let's hope every call is tracked down

Everyone of these calls is a trump voter. Zero doubt.

[Chi67]

4. Ugh!

It's way past time to start prosecuting these fascists! People who make bomb threats are terrorists and should be treated as such. The rest of us sane people have had enough. Send these assholes to Gitmo. I am very serious.

And good for Planet Fitness for standing up. More companies need to walk the walk like they do.

[The Grand Illuminist]

5. Sooner or later

There will be bombings without any threats whatsoever if action is not taken now by every means.

[Polybius]

6. In the near future, there will be one locker room for all

Idiot right-wing haters.

[Chi67]

7. Yep

Adults should be able to control themselves. I play hockey and most facilities weren't built with locker rooms for both sexes, so we all mostly change in the same rooms. Nobody cares.

Grow the fuck up, right wingers.

[jmowreader]

8. So tell me...

When Chaya Raichik’s shit-stirring finally gets someone killed…then what?

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

9. Chaya Raichik is a stochastic terrorist

This is exactly what she wants.

Don't forget she was appointed to the Oklahoma statewide library advisory board (despite not living anywhere near Oklahoma)

[Initech]

10. Fuck libsoftiktok!