"Planet Fitness is defending the man in the women’s locker room, the man with a penis, rather

than the child sitting in the corner with a towel wrapped around her," the 67-year-old said in a
video posted on X.

The gym revoked Silva's membership, saying photographing another gym-goer is against Planet
Fitness policy.

However, Silva's experience wasn’t the first encounter of its kind that the international gym
franchise has run into.

On April 4, 38-year-old Christopher Miller was arrested and charged by North Carolina police
for indecent exposure in the women's locker room at a Planet Fitness for allegedly stripping
naked and asking a teen to shower together, all while declaring he identified as a woman.

The Post found that Miller gave no indication that he was transgender prior to barging into the
changing room. He was held at Gaston County jail on a$25,000 bond.

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In the fall, a 25-year-old man allegedly exposed himself in front of a 15-year-old girl at a Planet
Fitness in Georgia, and 45-year-old Layton Kessler of North Dakota was arrested for installing
devices to record women at another one of the gym’s locations.

Public washroom or bathroom sign hanging from the ceiling. (Roberto Machado
Noa/LightRocket via Getty Images)
Earlier this winter, Fox 2 reported that in Michigan, local police arrested 30-year-old Jeremiah
Wiltfong for masturbating in his vehicle at a Planet Fitness parking lot as he reportedly recorded
women walking by.

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The health club lets members use the locker room of their "self-reported gender," and says the
following on its website: "Planet Fitness locker room facilities and programs based on their self-
reported gender identity; these facilities include bathrooms, showers, and all other facilities
separated by sex."