Woman banned from Planet Fitness for photographing trans member takes stand s firm: 'Here for the long haul'

What I’ve learned or how I feel is that what Planet Fitness is doing, I mean, there’s a solution to this problem and it’s a very simple solution. It would be to create a third safe space for the transgender non binary. Nevertheless, what they did is they took a man that was uncomfortable in a man’s locker room and put him in a woman’s. And they have created this unsafe space for women, and women are now uncomfortable with the man. So when Planet Fitness called me Day 2 to say, well, Miss Silva, you know, we’re going to have to, we have had to cancel your membership, you know, the situation. And I said, no, why don’t you tell me the situation? And so they said, well. Well, the situation is, is that you, you crossed our boundaries and you took a picture of this woman in the locker room. I said it’s a man. And they said, well, he identifies, she identifies as a woman. And I said. Explain to me what is the process of him being able to get past your desk? What kind of government ID? What kind of? How does he verify that he’s a woman? And they said he just had. It’s his personal perspective of himself, basically, and I’m here for the long haul. I am going to help make a difference. However that looks, I don’t even know. But I’m not afraid. The you know the libs can. They can threaten me all day long and it I just feel like I’ve got the armor of God on me and I feel like they cannot penetrate my soul. They can’t take my joy unless I give it to him. So that’s kind of where I’m at.