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Yvette Cormier is seen in a screenshot from an interview with WNEM-TV in Sagninaw, Michigan.

(WNEM-TV)

Planet Fitness has canceled a Michigan woman's gym membership after she expressed concerns about a transgender woman using the women's locker room at one of its fitness centers.

Yvette Cormier of Midland County said this week that corporate officials told her she was no longer welcome after she made repeated statements last month about a "man" at the Planet Fitness location in Midland.

"I was stunned and shocked. He looked like a man. ... He did not look like a woman," Cormier told WNEM-TV in Saginaw, Michigan.



According to MLive.com, she also said, "It freaked me out because, why is a man in here?"

After an employee told her Feb. 28 that the individual in question identified as a woman, Cormier took her complaint to Planet Fitness' corporate offices. There she was told the individual, who was not identified, would be allowed in the women's locker room under the club's "no judgement zone" policy, MLive reports.

At Planet Fitness, members can use the locker room corresponding with their personal gender identity.

After Cormier persisted in bringing up the subject with other members of the health club, she said, her membership was revoked.

McCall Gosselin, public relations director for Planet Fitness, confirmed that Cormier's actions led to her being barred from the company's facilities, although Gosseiin didn't specify what actions exactly led to the decision.

In a statement, she said:

"Planet Fitness is committed to creating a non-intimidating, welcoming environment for our members. Our gender identity non-discrimination policy states that members and guests may use all gym facilities based on their sincere self-reported gender identity. The manner in which this member expressed her concerns about the policy exhibited behavior that management at the Midland club deemed inappropriate and disruptive to other members, which is a violation of the membership agreement and as a result her membership was cancelled."

Cornier argued Planet Fitness should provide a separate locker room for transgender people, although the women's locker room has private changing stalls and bathroom stalls with doors.

Char Davenport, a transgender woman who is a professor at Saginaw Valley State University as well as Delta College, told WNEM that she applauds Planet Fitness for understanding the needs of the transgender community.

But she said this would not be an issue if the club had "private showers and changing areas" to support LGBT rights without upsetting those who don't understand them.

This is not the first controversy involving Planet Fitness and its members. Last year, a California woman said she quit Planet Fitness after staff members told her that her that her "toned body" was intimidating other members.