Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier has warned a high-end fitness club it must change its bathroom policy after a recent complaint or face prosecution under Gov. Ron DeSantis’ “Let Kids Be Kids” law protecting children from sexually explicit content and gender ideology.
“Men don’t belong in female restrooms and locker rooms. That’s not happening in Florida under my watch,” Uthmeier told Fox News Digital Thursday after a complaint was issued by a woman who visited Life Time Fitness in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. The woman said she encountered a person she identified as a biological male in the women’s locker room.
The woman, Sonja Horton, said she was in the sauna with a “man in a bikini” and that the front desk told her “whatever you identify as, you can go wherever you want,” according to WPTV.
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“Life Time has a choice: immediately change your policy so that your female patrons can stay active, free from fear and with their privacy intact or, we’ll meet you in court,” said Uthmeier.
“And that goes for any Florida gym. In this state, we don’t sacrifice women’s rights to satisfy men’s delusions.”
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier warned a high-end fitness club it must change its bathroom policy after a recent complaint or face prosecution. (Getty)
Horton reported not feeling safe, adding it was not “fair” biological men could use the women’s room.
The incident report led Uthmeier to send a warning letter to Life Time Inc., saying its policies “clearly harm and endanger women who use facilities at Life Time Palm Beach Gardens.”
It said the gym argued that Palm Beach County code makes gender identity a protected class and “therefore condones or requires its harmful locker room policy.”
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“If that were true, the policy would nonetheless run afoul of…
