Month: March 2014

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ATTENTION TRANSGENDER AND TRANS ALLIES!

Gold’s Gym wants you to, “conform like everyone else.”

This morning, Dan Shrum went to Gold’s Gym on Washington St. in Indianapolis for his usual workout. For safety reasons, and because he has yet to legally change his gender, he used the women’s locker room. Just like he’s done many times before and has been told by management it is perfectly acceptable.

Today when he went in, a female customer ran out. When Dan came out of the locker room, he was confronted by Gold’s Gym employee, Robert. Robert told him, yelling in front of twenty other customers, that it’s “inappropriate” for him to use that locker room.

Dan explained his situation and offered to show his ID that says female.

Instead, the employee demanded to see Dan’s membership badge, and told him, “You should shave your beard. Why can’t you people conform like everyone else?”

We think every trans person and ally should let Gold’s Gym know this is inappropriate, and that we will boycott and tell our friends to boycott Gold’s Gym until they apologize and convince us that they treat all LBTGQ members with respect.

Call Gold’s Gym in Indianapolis @ (317) 357-4653. Let the Gold’s Gym franchise know on their Facebook Page and their Twitter Feed.

Reblog!

mistymontague:

queerwoc:

Did you know? Prom is coming up! And you have a right to express your gender identity. Your school may be violating the law if it doesn’t allow a female student to wear a tuxedo or a male student to wear a dress.

reblogging for my followers who will be going to prom this year

thenewenlightenmentage:

The Invisible Dragon

A dragon-shaped cloud of dust seems to fly out from a bright explosion in this infrared light image from the Spitzer Space Telescope.

These views have revealed that this dark cloud, called M17 SWex, is forming stars at a furious rate but has not yet spawned the most massive type of stars, known as O stars. Such stellar behemoths, however, light up the M17 nebula at the image’s center and have also blown a huge “bubble” in the gas and dust that forms M17’s luminous left edge.

The stars and gas in this region are now passing though the Sagittarius spiral arm of the Milky Way (moving from right to left), touching off a galactic “domino effect.” The youngest episode of star formation is playing out inside the dusty dragon as it enters the spiral arm. Over time this area will flare up like the bright M17 nebula to the left of the dragon, glowing in the light of young, massive stars. The remnants of an older burst of star formation blew the bubble in the region to the far left, called M17 EB.

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

ATTENTION TRANSGENDER AND TRANS ALLIES!

Gold’s Gym wants you to, “conform like everyone else.”

This morning, Dan Shrum went to Gold’s Gym on Washington St. in Indianapolis for his usual workout. For safety reasons, and because he has yet to legally change his gender, he used the women’s locker room. Just like he’s done many times before and has been told by management it is perfectly acceptable.

Today when he went in, a female customer ran out. When Dan came out of the locker room, he was confronted by Gold’s Gym employee, Robert. Robert told him, yelling in front of twenty other customers, that it’s “inappropriate” for him to use that locker room.

Dan explained his situation and offered to show his ID that says female.

Instead, the employee demanded to see Dan’s membership badge, and told him, “You should shave your beard. Why can’t you people conform like everyone else?”

We think every trans person and ally should let Gold’s Gym know this is inappropriate, and that we will boycott and tell our friends to boycott Gold’s Gym until they apologize and convince us that they treat all LBTGQ members with respect.

Call Gold’s Gym in Indianapolis @ (317) 357-4653. Let the Gold’s Gym franchise know on their Facebook Page and their Twitter Feed.

Reblog!