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Lauren Aratani in New York

Planet Fitness outlets receive bomb threats after far right derides gym policy

A Planet Fitness gym in the Carle Place neighborhood in Nassau County, Long Island, New York.
A Planet Fitness gym in the Carle Place neighborhood in Nassau County, Long Island, New York. Photograph: Jimin Kim/SOPA Images/REX/Shutterstock

More than 40 Planet Fitness locations across the country have received bomb threats after a conservative movement against the gym’s trans-inclusive locker room policy went viral online.

In the weeks since the backlash against the gym chain started in March, at least 43 locations in Connecticut, Florida, Alabama and other states have received bomb threats, according to progressive media watchdog group Media Matters.

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