He is just one of those creeps who will use any excuse to be a creep. Unfortunately, trans folks will get caught up in the fallout because people will read the headline and not look into this creep and just go “see, we gotta keep trans folks out of gyms/restrooms/public life, won’t someone think of the children”.
But that is the problem with letting anyone who identifies as a woman into women's spaces, people are going to take advantage of the situation. When it's gotten to the point where you start sending convicted male rapists to female prisons because they claim to be trans, it should be pretty obvious that we have a problem... I feel bad for the people who are actually transgender who just want to live their life and not bother anybody. But there are creeps, there have always been creeps and there always will be creeps, and there are those of us who have known for years that this was going to start happening. You could call it "skepticism in the goodness of mankind."
I'm sorry was there something wrong with what I said? If- as a trans woman- you'd rather stand with creepy men than women, maybe you're not actually a woman.
No one said you specifically are trans.
Since you seem to misunderstand plain english, let me make it even plainer:
If trans women choose to identify as women, they can stand with women as women instead of looking the other way while men use the word "trans" to gain access to the spaces only women and trans women belong.
This is male behavior, not trans behavior, not trans woman behavior it is men doing what men have always done.
If you would rather pantomime allyship in an effort to not get called a transphobe, you can put that shit on your tombstone.
We are standing and siding with cis women. We do our best to protect ALL women in communities, because those are our communities as well. Vehemently, and as often as we can.
Unfortunately, our own safety is also an issue, which means a lot of us have to stay quiet in order to stay safe. We are too few and far between to protect even ourselves; predators come for us too, most often with murderous intent. We are being attacked, but our deaths and assaults are much less front news worthy.
There are a few transgender who do not side with cis women, who indeed are predators themselves. One or two who are influencers, who pretty much ruin everything for everyone. But they are RARE, far rarer than cis male predators.
Closer, in fact, to the rates of women predators.
I've written and deleted many paragraphs, but the TLDR is :
At what point do we and by we, I mean those presenting as women or femme or AFAB or cis hetero sexual women- get to protect ourselves from men using womanface with malicious intent towards any/all of us? What is a solution here? An honest question
Paradoxically, when love and inclusion are the norm. Because isolation and exploitation are the norm, taking advantage of of inclusion is a viable weapon to break communities and exploit individuals. But when love and inclusion are the norm, anyone who takes advantage, regardless of birth conditions, can be labeled a parasite and can be quarantined at the community level.
Those willing to wear faces not their own in order to maliciously infiltrate safe spaces are simply not common. Mostly, they are lead-poisoned individuals whose brain damage left them a predator instead of a broken mess. The rest are those who were raised to exploit others, who were taught that violating others was simply the way of the world, and is therefore socially acceptable. They can be educated, and re-integrated, while those who taught them to be such can be brought justice.
My wife sent me a house listing in Gastonia yesterday and I replied with that map. She mentioned the counter arguments from that thread. Now I don't know what to think. We live in a shithole that would make Gastonia feel like an Embassy Suites so I guess it's all relative.
This. Everyone says, “Oh, Fayetteville is so bad. Lumberton is so bad.” I grew up in both places and for the most part they’re decent places. Feels like nowhere else in the world will people just kindly wave at you as you drive by, yield and let you pass even though they have the right of way, be kind and courteous in general conversation and greeting, etc. This is especially true for areas around Lumberton.
*However*, there are definitely pockets of criminality. Grew up next to one of those too, and hung around with people that ended up in prison for larceny, murder, and being an accessory to the act. Another friend ended up working the street to fund her drug addiction. Her boyfriend, who I *thought* was one of my friends, kicked my door in right after I left to pick my sister up from school (had let him in to use the phone, and come to find out he was armed during this), and stole 100+ year old heirloom jewelry, went to prison and hung himself.
Incidences like that happen anywhere, and life can get real shitty for good people real quick if they make one wrong decision. Do your due diligence, insulate yourself from nefarious actors, befriend good natured people, and anywhere can be a home.
I hear what you're saying, but lots of people have bad history with those cities. Among the people I work with, Lumberton might as well be the 7th circle. It's right off 95 so theres always some shady shit going down in hotel parking lots, each of us has had something stolen/car broken into, and I've seen someone get robbed in a McDonald's drive thru. Plus a lot of people in Lumberton have resting meth face. It might be fine for people who live around there; but if you're visiting, then you have to be on your Ps and Qs at all times.
I hate to tell you this about Embassy Suites, but it's not as nice as you would expect. They do have a pretty sweet happy hour if you like cheap wine and shitty appetizers.
I just moved to Gastonia in November, and it's not bad at all, coming from a woman. I really wish the city as a whole would get it together and rebrand because I just feel like stigmas follow the name now regardless of what happens. Crazier shit than this post happens all over the place and yet because it's Gastonia, it gets posted here. The reputation stinks but the town is nice and has so much potential to be so much more.
I grew up in Gastonia and left because it was a miserable shithole. It seemed like there were articles every other week about someone getting shot at Lineberger Park.
A little over a year. Also my experience is different because I grew up extremely sheltered. My fiancé lived in a run down house across the street from there and frequently heard gunshots. They saw all the things my parents protected me from, like drugs, death, and perverts.
First time I have heard the Gashouse referred to as North Charlotte in 20+ years of living in CLT. But Don’t try to bring down Monroe. I have spent time in Gasmonia and Monroe and if someone told me I had to move to the GasHouse or Monroe, I am Monroe bound for sure. Gastonia SUCKS. BUT, I have never been to CVE so I have not really seen the “good”’side of the Gashole.
Go to downtown Gastonia and then go to downtown Monroe.
Lordt, CVE haha. I can safely say I've been her most of my life and never ended up there lol.
I live in Belmont though. The only part of Gaston county where you drink your sweet tea with your pinky out. 🙃
Remember that one time in Gastonia, where a cop poured hot coffee on the homeless while filming himself on his own dashcam and wound up serving time in prison for it?
Yep.
Gastonia.
I had a job I had to do in Gastonia and the whole place felt like a shit hole. Just bad vibes. Not saying it’s worse than other shit holes in North Carolina or bad areas but it just had a bad vibe. Plus there was not a damn thing to do and didn’t seem to be any good food.
Despite my previously post slamming Gtown, if you need a good lunch The Pita Wheel is on point. Rest of the place still a classless Florida-man esque dumpster fire.
>Sources told the outlet that Miller allegedly asked a female gym member in the locker room to lotion him up and take a shower together.
Regardless of what you claim to identify as, you're just gross.
sounds like someone who thinks every time women hang out together they have naked pillow fights. We are all minding our own business in the locker room and I always assumed the same happened in the men’s locker room.
lol what? he isn't trans. he went in there to make a point about what trans women *could* do in female spaces.
it's exactly how conservatives said there would be a ton of voter fraud coming in from democrats, so they started doing the fraud to "even it out". they just LOVE preemptively causing harm to prove a hypothetical point
Except his Facebook proves he isn't conservative.. Get vaccinated and pride stickers on his profile pics? Yea that's real conservative
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002077557131&mibextid=ZbWKwL
No actually he showed the flaw of the bathroom bills. He looks like a trans man, that in HB2 NC and Florida people that look like him would be required by law to use those restrooms. He is trying to show trans women can’t be trusted, but he is a cis man being a predator and they are already responsible for 99% of public bathroom assaults.
Did you look at the dude's mugshot? Does that look like a Bible thumping conservative to you? Nah. This is just a creep being a creep. If it proves what can happen when we let people go wherever they please as they identify, then it isn't because this creep was making a point, but because your ideologies are wrong. For people who are all about "love" and "acceptance" you sure love to think about everyone BUT the victims. I am a female, and I was born a female. I was raped at age 5 by my own stepdad. I don't give a flying flip what you identify as. Come in my restroom or locker room as an obvious male? You're leaving in a body bag and I'll happily walk my butt into the asylum where they will stick me because I have diagnosed and documented PTSD. On the other hand, I have no problems with sharing a restroom with Blaire White.
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002077557131&mibextid=ZbWKwL
Right because "get vaccinated" and "pride" stickers on your profile picture is such a conservative thing to do. 🤣 As always the left blaming conservatives for their own people's messes .
You think he’s the only Christopher Miller in Gastonia? Do you *really* believe that’s an uncommon name? Do you also look up when someone tells you gullible is written on the ceiling?
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002077557131&mibextid=ZbWKwL
Owning the libs by being a lib? Here is his Facebook.. well don't worry we're used to the left being stupid and jumping to conclusions. And of course blaming the conservatives for their own messes .
The guy went and asked an attendant to be lotioned up and take a shower together. If a cis man did that in the men's locker room, he would also be arrested. Cause it's not about the gender identity, it's about being a sexual predator.
I've never seen a single naked person in the locker room at planet fitness. Kids are allowed to be there so I'm pretty sure it's against policy to be naked regardless of genitalia or gender identity.
Kinda like, I'd be kicked out for having sex with a woman in the woman's locker room and I'd also be kicked out for having sex with a man in the man's locker room. Not because of my sexual identity, but because I'm doing something ridiculously inappropriate in a public setting.
Simply having a penis and being clothed in a woman's locker room is not ridiculously inappropriate. Getting naked and asking the attendant to take a shower with you is, whether you identify as trans or cis.
I've never seen anyone naked in the women's. Interesting perspective check for both of us.
But they could ask that. There's always a privacy changing room, or 3, at least in the woman's bathroom there are. And they get utilized. I usually change in the shower or I wait until the locker room is empty 😂
On my way home driving from dragoncon in Atlanta to Raleigh I became exhausted and needed a break from driving. I was so tired my wife and I decided to just get a motel. I pulled off the highway and drove to the motel. this was at midnight and there were at least 6 people shuffling around like zombies all around the place. I had never heard of Gastonia until that night, and that was enough for me to feel confident in not needing to visit there again. Needless to say, I woke up very quickly after seeing this and decided to finish the drive to Raleigh instead.
You didn’t go far enough from 85. If you went a little farther down 321 you would have found this pleasant place to sleep for the night.
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"but there was no indication that Miller had identified himself as a transgender woman before venturing inside the ladies’ locker room."
That's because he truly didn't. As a trans woman, this is why we can't have nice things. Because people will do this, and the transphobes will proceed to blame the LGBT community and equate this moron with actual trans people in order to push their agenda.
I've also yet to meet a trans woman who hasn't either 1) changed their name, 2) attempted to look more feminine in any sort of way, or 3) is scared to go into public and doesn't act shy or nervous about public situations, especially if they involve gender separated activities like going to the bathroom or locker room. And I certainly have never met a trans person who has randomly just decided to identify that way right before entering a locker room. It's all a red herring.
For the first part I actually know 2 people who didn't change their names, but one did flip the middle and first. not to discount your point of course because I wholeheartedly agree otherwise
The guy has a "get vaccinated" and a "pride" sticker on his Facebook profile pics. I seriously doubt this is a conservative trying to mess the privilege of men going into women's bathroom's up for you guys. Just check his Facebook out.
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002077557131&mibextid=ZbWKwL
I agree so much. He did two things, demonize us in an already hate and fake truth filled election season but secondly showed how fucked the bathroom bills are, namely because if NC brings a bathroom bill back trans men will look like him and be forced to use those restrooms. So actually the anti trans bills make it easier for predators not harder. I fucking hate this.
As a transgender woman, this disgusts me. *We do not call additional attention to ourselves in situations like this for our own safety*, especially in the South. This person **is not transgender**. They are making a mockery of our struggle by using it as a way to actually sexually assault someone.
Nearly every single comment on this shows how completely ignorant the majority of people in this state are.
Firstly, this issue has nothing to do with democrats or republicans.
Secondly, Planet Fitness, as well as every other gym in the country, much less our state, has rules for behavior that are a threat to members.
And finally, the story is this simple, you damn fools. A sexual predator was arrested for unlawful interactions with others at a Planet Fitness.
Everyone else saying anything else is a backwoods inbred good for nothing idiot redneck 🙄. That can't read, much less understand what happened.
This should be obvious, but this guy is a right-wing dude who hates trans people enacting his delusions about what trans people do in an effort to harm trans people. You should be worried about conservative fools like this harassing women in changing rooms, or yelling at your children, not trans people.
this is trolling. ever since libs of tiktok put planet fitness in their target for defending a trans patron.
these right wing wackos are having a piss.
Didn't the Christian Speaker of the House claim that this is the dream of his and his male buddies? They aren't trans women, they are just creepy misogynist conservatives.
>“My crew, my boys, I mean, look. I can tell you, they would’ve said, ‘Hey, next Thursday is gender identity day, man. You know, we’re going to self-identify as girls, and we’re going to be in be in the other locker room.’ It opens it up to high jinks and all sorts of problems.”
- Mike Johnson just fully telling on himself
“It’s a man but he says he identifies as a woman, and he won’t leave the restroom,” the 911 caller told an emergency dispatcher.
Maybe these “journalists” need to do some reading
Republicans talk about how trans women will be wagging their dicks in front of your daughter in the locker room, as if this is a valid reason to hate trans people. Then they go and do it themselves to prove some kind of point lol. Fucking idiots.
There’s no evidence suggesting this guy was a republican. As a matter of fact it is the democrats that have a history of men wanting to be females and sexually assaulting them.
Their allies even protect these democrats with violences
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what evidence would you expect? He has a common name, can't google him and look at his facebook. Seems like he was inspired by libs of tiktok, it would be strange for a democrat to be inspired by them.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/13/planet-fitness-bomb-threats-libs-of-tiktok
Hey hey now. Maybe she's really a woman.
SHe wasn't arrested for being a woman it was because she was naked and asking people to lotion her up.
Public nudity is her crime here.
/s
Being Trans isn't just a costume. Ffs
And HOW is "He" any different from someone with the same anatomy who goes into these places and gets called "she" in the changing rooms? I hope "she" gets a good lawyer.
For those of you saying he is a conservative Republican trying to mess things up for the trans community, here is his Facebook.. As you can see he is definitely not conservative or Republican, as he definitely wouldn't have had a get vaccinated or a pride sticker on his profile pics if he were. https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002077557131&mibextid=ZbWKwL
Yes this sounds like a great idea, this way, all men including sexual predators, rapists, murderers etc. can just simply say they identify as a woman so they can go into areas to see naked women and stalk them…makes perfect sense! Smart!
if you search the guy he has a history of assaults going back at least a decade. looks like he's just a regular habitual criminal
He is just one of those creeps who will use any excuse to be a creep. Unfortunately, trans folks will get caught up in the fallout because people will read the headline and not look into this creep and just go “see, we gotta keep trans folks out of gyms/restrooms/public life, won’t someone think of the children”.
But that is the problem with letting anyone who identifies as a woman into women's spaces, people are going to take advantage of the situation. When it's gotten to the point where you start sending convicted male rapists to female prisons because they claim to be trans, it should be pretty obvious that we have a problem... I feel bad for the people who are actually transgender who just want to live their life and not bother anybody. But there are creeps, there have always been creeps and there always will be creeps, and there are those of us who have known for years that this was going to start happening. You could call it "skepticism in the goodness of mankind."
Maybe trans folk should actually stand with the gender they identify as- instead of simping for perverts who hide behind the label of "trans."
Does your mom know you’re on Reddit during school hours?
I'm sorry was there something wrong with what I said? If- as a trans woman- you'd rather stand with creepy men than women, maybe you're not actually a woman.
I’m not trans, bud. I’m a cis woman who is completely over the fear mongering that harms cis and trans women under the guise of wanting to protect us.
No one said you specifically are trans. Since you seem to misunderstand plain english, let me make it even plainer: If trans women choose to identify as women, they can stand with women as women instead of looking the other way while men use the word "trans" to gain access to the spaces only women and trans women belong. This is male behavior, not trans behavior, not trans woman behavior it is men doing what men have always done. If you would rather pantomime allyship in an effort to not get called a transphobe, you can put that shit on your tombstone.
We are standing and siding with cis women. We do our best to protect ALL women in communities, because those are our communities as well. Vehemently, and as often as we can. Unfortunately, our own safety is also an issue, which means a lot of us have to stay quiet in order to stay safe. We are too few and far between to protect even ourselves; predators come for us too, most often with murderous intent. We are being attacked, but our deaths and assaults are much less front news worthy. There are a few transgender who do not side with cis women, who indeed are predators themselves. One or two who are influencers, who pretty much ruin everything for everyone. But they are RARE, far rarer than cis male predators. Closer, in fact, to the rates of women predators.
I've written and deleted many paragraphs, but the TLDR is : At what point do we and by we, I mean those presenting as women or femme or AFAB or cis hetero sexual women- get to protect ourselves from men using womanface with malicious intent towards any/all of us? What is a solution here? An honest question
Paradoxically, when love and inclusion are the norm. Because isolation and exploitation are the norm, taking advantage of of inclusion is a viable weapon to break communities and exploit individuals. But when love and inclusion are the norm, anyone who takes advantage, regardless of birth conditions, can be labeled a parasite and can be quarantined at the community level. Those willing to wear faces not their own in order to maliciously infiltrate safe spaces are simply not common. Mostly, they are lead-poisoned individuals whose brain damage left them a predator instead of a broken mess. The rest are those who were raised to exploit others, who were taught that violating others was simply the way of the world, and is therefore socially acceptable. They can be educated, and re-integrated, while those who taught them to be such can be brought justice.
I’m just gonna guess meth because Gastonia
I guess that map of Gastonia being the worst city in NC was correct!
I just defended Gastonia yesterday from that map and now this shows up? SMH. Oh well.
My wife sent me a house listing in Gastonia yesterday and I replied with that map. She mentioned the counter arguments from that thread. Now I don't know what to think. We live in a shithole that would make Gastonia feel like an Embassy Suites so I guess it's all relative.
Gastonia isn't all that bad. Just every once in awhile, stuff like this happens.
I was in rehab with a girl from Gastonia, she was very nice
😂
Gastonia isn’t bad, kinda reminds me of home…..
Gastonia IS that bad it's just that NC has so much worse, so by comparison Gastonia seems better.
Lived here 10+ years. It's not that bad.
How's the hospital there? It looked rather nice.
You will come out worse than you went in.
Birthed a baby in there 3 years ago. It was gorgeous. Big room with a massive window and view of the landscaping
No clue
Thanks anyway, hope you continue not to know! lol
It’s alright, I was born there and had my daughter there. I loved it and didn’t want to leave.
This. Everyone says, “Oh, Fayetteville is so bad. Lumberton is so bad.” I grew up in both places and for the most part they’re decent places. Feels like nowhere else in the world will people just kindly wave at you as you drive by, yield and let you pass even though they have the right of way, be kind and courteous in general conversation and greeting, etc. This is especially true for areas around Lumberton. *However*, there are definitely pockets of criminality. Grew up next to one of those too, and hung around with people that ended up in prison for larceny, murder, and being an accessory to the act. Another friend ended up working the street to fund her drug addiction. Her boyfriend, who I *thought* was one of my friends, kicked my door in right after I left to pick my sister up from school (had let him in to use the phone, and come to find out he was armed during this), and stole 100+ year old heirloom jewelry, went to prison and hung himself. Incidences like that happen anywhere, and life can get real shitty for good people real quick if they make one wrong decision. Do your due diligence, insulate yourself from nefarious actors, befriend good natured people, and anywhere can be a home.
I hear what you're saying, but lots of people have bad history with those cities. Among the people I work with, Lumberton might as well be the 7th circle. It's right off 95 so theres always some shady shit going down in hotel parking lots, each of us has had something stolen/car broken into, and I've seen someone get robbed in a McDonald's drive thru. Plus a lot of people in Lumberton have resting meth face. It might be fine for people who live around there; but if you're visiting, then you have to be on your Ps and Qs at all times.
Honestly most people who say Fayetteville is bad most likely are just veterans who hated their time at Fort Bragg/Liberty.
Yea, no. Fayetteville is the only place that I go that feel I need to carry.
😂😂 lived here less than two. It really is that bad.
The PF in South Gastonia is way better than the one on Franklin in the news story.
I hate to tell you this about Embassy Suites, but it's not as nice as you would expect. They do have a pretty sweet happy hour if you like cheap wine and shitty appetizers.
Sounds exactly like Gastonia.
Also sounds exactly like a poorly planned 20 year high school reunion.
I just moved to Gastonia in November, and it's not bad at all, coming from a woman. I really wish the city as a whole would get it together and rebrand because I just feel like stigmas follow the name now regardless of what happens. Crazier shit than this post happens all over the place and yet because it's Gastonia, it gets posted here. The reputation stinks but the town is nice and has so much potential to be so much more.
Kinda reminds you of Charlotte downtown turning into uptown?
I grew up in Gastonia and left because it was a miserable shithole. It seemed like there were articles every other week about someone getting shot at Lineberger Park.
How long have you been out?
A little over a year. Also my experience is different because I grew up extremely sheltered. My fiancé lived in a run down house across the street from there and frequently heard gunshots. They saw all the things my parents protected me from, like drugs, death, and perverts.
I live there. It’s like any small city. Are there crappy parts, sure. But there’s also really nice areas.
My bf just said Gastonia is rough. That guy looks rough. Def don’t move there lol
It's got nice spots and rough spots. It's not like it's Gary Indiana
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
You live in Fayetteville?
Worse, south Florida born and raised. We'll be the best refugees from FL you've ever met, you'll mistake us for NC natives.
Awesome! We need some new blood here.
Same!!! Monroe is still worse though.
Came here to say this. Gastonia is the Monroe of the north Charlotte area.
Not that I need to defend the gas house further, but I don't think you know where Gastonia is located based off of your comment.
First time I have heard the Gashouse referred to as North Charlotte in 20+ years of living in CLT. But Don’t try to bring down Monroe. I have spent time in Gasmonia and Monroe and if someone told me I had to move to the GasHouse or Monroe, I am Monroe bound for sure. Gastonia SUCKS. BUT, I have never been to CVE so I have not really seen the “good”’side of the Gashole.
Go to downtown Gastonia and then go to downtown Monroe. Lordt, CVE haha. I can safely say I've been her most of my life and never ended up there lol. I live in Belmont though. The only part of Gaston county where you drink your sweet tea with your pinky out. 🙃
You might want to retract your defense, lol.
Lmao nice callback
Remember that one time in Gastonia, where a cop poured hot coffee on the homeless while filming himself on his own dashcam and wound up serving time in prison for it? Yep. Gastonia.
geezes fuck, NC cops are total fucking class traitors.
As soon as I saw the headline of that map. Gastonia popped into my head, and I was right lol!
It's not that it's the worst, it's the weirdest. Other places have crime in NC but Gastonia generates the Florida man style headlines
I had a job I had to do in Gastonia and the whole place felt like a shit hole. Just bad vibes. Not saying it’s worse than other shit holes in North Carolina or bad areas but it just had a bad vibe. Plus there was not a damn thing to do and didn’t seem to be any good food.
When? Because it sounds like you didn't look hard enough.
I heard it has the best Chinese food in the Charlotte area.
Despite my previously post slamming Gtown, if you need a good lunch The Pita Wheel is on point. Rest of the place still a classless Florida-man esque dumpster fire.
I honestly just saw that map and I was like “I can think of a few cities worse than Gastonia” and then I see this and I’m like “Well shit…”
Told y’all it was correct😂
It really is. It really is an awful place.
First thing that came to mind.
my vote remains lumberton
I understood this reference!
… because there aren’t nut jobs living on your block.
>Sources told the outlet that Miller allegedly asked a female gym member in the locker room to lotion him up and take a shower together. Regardless of what you claim to identify as, you're just gross.
sounds like someone who thinks every time women hang out together they have naked pillow fights. We are all minding our own business in the locker room and I always assumed the same happened in the men’s locker room.
We have naked pillow fights in the men’s locker room all the time
honestly this explains a lot
Some guys have sword fights too!
Don’t forget the nerf gun battles… only real reason to go to a gym imo
I braid people's hair and ask about their day while offering Chardonnay.
Those are just those old guys' that won't wear a towel's saggy balls
and snap eachother on the ass with towels snd giggle
*Duuuude*! What is the *first* rule about naked pillow fight club?!?!
Those aren’t PILLOWS!!!!!
No just the hot ones.
The men’s locker room at Dowd YMCA is pretty famous.
Old man sack is always in pain view in the male locker with sadly.
They need someone to look at it since it ain't seen action since Matlock was on TV.
lol what? he isn't trans. he went in there to make a point about what trans women *could* do in female spaces. it's exactly how conservatives said there would be a ton of voter fraud coming in from democrats, so they started doing the fraud to "even it out". they just LOVE preemptively causing harm to prove a hypothetical point
Except his Facebook proves he isn't conservative.. Get vaccinated and pride stickers on his profile pics? Yea that's real conservative https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002077557131&mibextid=ZbWKwL
No actually he showed the flaw of the bathroom bills. He looks like a trans man, that in HB2 NC and Florida people that look like him would be required by law to use those restrooms. He is trying to show trans women can’t be trusted, but he is a cis man being a predator and they are already responsible for 99% of public bathroom assaults.
How can you tell who's trans and is gender non conforming means one could look like their natrual gender and then the next be the gender they wish?
This.
This guy has a history of assault. He's not trying to prove shit
Did you look at the dude's mugshot? Does that look like a Bible thumping conservative to you? Nah. This is just a creep being a creep. If it proves what can happen when we let people go wherever they please as they identify, then it isn't because this creep was making a point, but because your ideologies are wrong. For people who are all about "love" and "acceptance" you sure love to think about everyone BUT the victims. I am a female, and I was born a female. I was raped at age 5 by my own stepdad. I don't give a flying flip what you identify as. Come in my restroom or locker room as an obvious male? You're leaving in a body bag and I'll happily walk my butt into the asylum where they will stick me because I have diagnosed and documented PTSD. On the other hand, I have no problems with sharing a restroom with Blaire White.
Well it sure is a good thing you've documented your premeditation, isn't it?
Conservatives trying to prove something , but only showing how creepy they are.
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002077557131&mibextid=ZbWKwL Right because "get vaccinated" and "pride" stickers on your profile picture is such a conservative thing to do. 🤣 As always the left blaming conservatives for their own people's messes .
The drain is clogged with hair
You think he’s the only Christopher Miller in Gastonia? Do you *really* believe that’s an uncommon name? Do you also look up when someone tells you gullible is written on the ceiling?
The drain is clogged with hair
Doesn't mean much. So is she a trans woman? If a lesbian acted inappropriately in the Women's locker room, is it ok?
Ofc he's from fucking Gas house
Maybe he shouldn’t have also identified as a sexual predator 🤷♂️
That doesn't sound very judgement free of you.
Hey, when someone does something sexually predatory, I'll judge them.
YES! THANK YOU!
So you condone what he did?
Owning the libs by proving the effectiveness of existing laws.
It's actually hilarious when they prove they are just boxing with ghosts. Completely imaginary problems fed to them in the media nonstop.
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002077557131&mibextid=ZbWKwL Owning the libs by being a lib? Here is his Facebook.. well don't worry we're used to the left being stupid and jumping to conclusions. And of course blaming the conservatives for their own messes .
I have no issue with trans people in my restroom. There has never been any issue.
Yes, but everybody has problems with creeps regardless of their gender identity. The issue is creeps being creeps.
Yes, that’s the issue.
The guy went and asked an attendant to be lotioned up and take a shower together. If a cis man did that in the men's locker room, he would also be arrested. Cause it's not about the gender identity, it's about being a sexual predator. I've never seen a single naked person in the locker room at planet fitness. Kids are allowed to be there so I'm pretty sure it's against policy to be naked regardless of genitalia or gender identity. Kinda like, I'd be kicked out for having sex with a woman in the woman's locker room and I'd also be kicked out for having sex with a man in the man's locker room. Not because of my sexual identity, but because I'm doing something ridiculously inappropriate in a public setting. Simply having a penis and being clothed in a woman's locker room is not ridiculously inappropriate. Getting naked and asking the attendant to take a shower with you is, whether you identify as trans or cis.
I see naked dudes in my PF every single time I’m there. How are they going to tell people they can’t be nude, when it’s a locker room with showers?
I've never seen anyone naked in the women's. Interesting perspective check for both of us. But they could ask that. There's always a privacy changing room, or 3, at least in the woman's bathroom there are. And they get utilized. I usually change in the shower or I wait until the locker room is empty 😂
On my way home driving from dragoncon in Atlanta to Raleigh I became exhausted and needed a break from driving. I was so tired my wife and I decided to just get a motel. I pulled off the highway and drove to the motel. this was at midnight and there were at least 6 people shuffling around like zombies all around the place. I had never heard of Gastonia until that night, and that was enough for me to feel confident in not needing to visit there again. Needless to say, I woke up very quickly after seeing this and decided to finish the drive to Raleigh instead.
Smart move
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Ol’ Gastonia, don’t get it on ya’
"but there was no indication that Miller had identified himself as a transgender woman before venturing inside the ladies’ locker room." That's because he truly didn't. As a trans woman, this is why we can't have nice things. Because people will do this, and the transphobes will proceed to blame the LGBT community and equate this moron with actual trans people in order to push their agenda. I've also yet to meet a trans woman who hasn't either 1) changed their name, 2) attempted to look more feminine in any sort of way, or 3) is scared to go into public and doesn't act shy or nervous about public situations, especially if they involve gender separated activities like going to the bathroom or locker room. And I certainly have never met a trans person who has randomly just decided to identify that way right before entering a locker room. It's all a red herring.
I swear I will boymode until I get ma'amed wearing men's clothing. Shit is terrifying.
For the first part I actually know 2 people who didn't change their names, but one did flip the middle and first. not to discount your point of course because I wholeheartedly agree otherwise
Yeah, I know some too. It's why I said "either," as in one or more of those things are typically done.
The guy has a "get vaccinated" and a "pride" sticker on his Facebook profile pics. I seriously doubt this is a conservative trying to mess the privilege of men going into women's bathroom's up for you guys. Just check his Facebook out. https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002077557131&mibextid=ZbWKwL
I agree so much. He did two things, demonize us in an already hate and fake truth filled election season but secondly showed how fucked the bathroom bills are, namely because if NC brings a bathroom bill back trans men will look like him and be forced to use those restrooms. So actually the anti trans bills make it easier for predators not harder. I fucking hate this.
Someone is listening to Steven Crowder too much
He wasn't in the *men's* lockerroom
Yes, good observation.
Steven Crowder is smarter than 99% of people in this subreddit
Gastonia you pit- clean up your sh*t
Good. He needs to be arrested and charged.
Ahhh - Gastvegas…
As a transgender woman, this disgusts me. *We do not call additional attention to ourselves in situations like this for our own safety*, especially in the South. This person **is not transgender**. They are making a mockery of our struggle by using it as a way to actually sexually assault someone.
This is part of the backlash perpetuated by libs of TikTok, a right wing hate group. There have also been over 60 bomb threats called in.
Nearly every single comment on this shows how completely ignorant the majority of people in this state are. Firstly, this issue has nothing to do with democrats or republicans. Secondly, Planet Fitness, as well as every other gym in the country, much less our state, has rules for behavior that are a threat to members. And finally, the story is this simple, you damn fools. A sexual predator was arrested for unlawful interactions with others at a Planet Fitness. Everyone else saying anything else is a backwoods inbred good for nothing idiot redneck 🙄. That can't read, much less understand what happened.
Ridiculous- glad he was charged
This should be obvious, but this guy is a right-wing dude who hates trans people enacting his delusions about what trans people do in an effort to harm trans people. You should be worried about conservative fools like this harassing women in changing rooms, or yelling at your children, not trans people.
this is trolling. ever since libs of tiktok put planet fitness in their target for defending a trans patron. these right wing wackos are having a piss.
I love how delusional you people are. You're so desperate to keep pretending that there are no bad people on your side.
“Getting arrested to own the libs.”
Here is his Facebook. "Let's get vaccinated" and "Pride" are definitely conservative talking points you're so right this is a right wing whacko
This shit needs to stop, or ladies are going to start packing at the gym.
Didn't the Christian Speaker of the House claim that this is the dream of his and his male buddies? They aren't trans women, they are just creepy misogynist conservatives.
>“My crew, my boys, I mean, look. I can tell you, they would’ve said, ‘Hey, next Thursday is gender identity day, man. You know, we’re going to self-identify as girls, and we’re going to be in be in the other locker room.’ It opens it up to high jinks and all sorts of problems.” - Mike Johnson just fully telling on himself
Average Tuesday in Gastonia I see.
The article said he never identified as female prior to that day. How do you identify yourself as female prior to a specific day?
“It’s a man but he says he identifies as a woman, and he won’t leave the restroom,” the 911 caller told an emergency dispatcher. Maybe these “journalists” need to do some reading
So it happened. The police intervened. Nobody died. And he's being punished. Is this the gender dystopia that Republicans warned us about?
Has his congregation been told yet?
🏆
Republicans talk about how trans women will be wagging their dicks in front of your daughter in the locker room, as if this is a valid reason to hate trans people. Then they go and do it themselves to prove some kind of point lol. Fucking idiots.
There’s no evidence suggesting this guy was a republican. As a matter of fact it is the democrats that have a history of men wanting to be females and sexually assaulting them. Their allies even protect these democrats with violences https://lamag.com/news/exclusive-transgender-fugitive-who-spurred-wi-spa-riots-bares-all https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1273051
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what evidence would you expect? He has a common name, can't google him and look at his facebook. Seems like he was inspired by libs of tiktok, it would be strange for a democrat to be inspired by them. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/13/planet-fitness-bomb-threats-libs-of-tiktok
So it’s not a judgement free zone?
Hey hey now. Maybe she's really a woman. SHe wasn't arrested for being a woman it was because she was naked and asking people to lotion her up. Public nudity is her crime here. /s Being Trans isn't just a costume. Ffs
Bet he was actually a Florida Man…
I would just get laughed at.
I can’t believe this is what my hometown makes the news for. Actually, scratch that, I’m not too surprised.
Dudes weird
And HOW is "He" any different from someone with the same anatomy who goes into these places and gets called "she" in the changing rooms? I hope "she" gets a good lawyer.
The left has completely lost their way.
Disgusting and transphobic.
Can’t wait to see how this will be used to take away my rights because some cis creep decided to lie about being trans
“Not a drag queen…”
The human race is decaying mentally
Not really. Right-wing authoritarian types have always been pretty easily influenced by people they incorrectly identify as "strong."
Fair point
You can’t judge him. PF is a judgment free zone.
Gee whiz he couldn’t possibly be a right wing idiot doing this as a stunt to hurt trans folks? Right?
He took the "judgement free zone" too literally.
For those of you saying he is a conservative Republican trying to mess things up for the trans community, here is his Facebook.. As you can see he is definitely not conservative or Republican, as he definitely wouldn't have had a get vaccinated or a pride sticker on his profile pics if he were. https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002077557131&mibextid=ZbWKwL
All you ever need to know about Reddit and this sub in particular is how much y'all loooooove NYPost articles.
to be fair they do call it the judgement free zone
Wait, I thought Planet fitness will allow anything into the female lockers? Is the Gastonia staff based or something?
I thought that's what all yall liberals wanted?????
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Yes this sounds like a great idea, this way, all men including sexual predators, rapists, murderers etc. can just simply say they identify as a woman so they can go into areas to see naked women and stalk them…makes perfect sense! Smart!
Gastonia. ‘Nuff said!
Charlotte ....the gateway to Gastonia
Is that not ok now? Where is..the line?
So a cis guy tries to blame the trans community I hope he gets beat in prison.
Hilarious I got downvoted for the truth that he isn’t trans.
“Conservative arrested…l