Major gym chain hit by huge backlash for allowing transgender woman into female locker room - after she claimed a 'Karen' confronted her

A awesome gym concatenation is being investigated by Missouri's Attorney General aft it allowed a trans woman to usage a female locker room.

Eris Montano, who has legally changed her gender, was accosted by a chap gym goer whilst astatine nan Ellisville Lifetime Fitness connected Monday.

A conflict has since ensued and constabulary were yet involved, aft personification revenge a title connected Friday morning, FirstAlert4 reports.

Following complaints by constituents, Rep. Justin Sparks called for an investigation and nan matter has been picked up by Attorney General Andrew Bailey.

'While it mightiness beryllium considered fashionable successful definite firm boardrooms to dress that biology is irrelevant, nan American heartland still lives successful reality,' Bailey said successful a statement.

'Missourians admit that allowing big men to openly invade and disrobe successful spaces group speech for women and young girls is indefensible and places governmental correctness supra nationalist safety.' 

He confirmed he is 'issuing subpoenas' and that nan gym faces imaginable criminal and civilian liability for putting, 'Missouri's women and girls successful harm's way'. 

He stated that Montano's beingness successful nan female locker room could beryllium tantamount to criminal trespass. 

Montano, 52, became nan taxable of a protestation against nan gym's trans inclusive argumentation aft Sparks called a property convention demanding nan investigation.

'We've decided to return a guidelines and guarantee that nan information of our organization comes first,' Sparks told nan crowd. 

However, antagonistic protesters besides showed up to connection their support.

Montano insists she was conscionable exercising her correct to beryllium successful nationalist and says she takes attraction to support her privateness and debar conflict.

'There person been measurement much group successful nan locker room who person travel up to maine to springiness maine hugs and show maine I beryllium there,' she said.

'People who deliberation others would find nudity successful locker rooms tantalizing are virtually telling connected themselves nary of nan remainder of america get moreover somewhat excited by that stuff,' she added successful a station connected X.

Minnesota-based Life Time Fitness said its policies were simply complicit pinch Missouri law.

'In this instance, nan personnel presented a state-issued drivers' licence identifying arsenic female and, based connected Missouri laws, we cannot contradict aliases discriminate connected nan ground of sex,' a connection read.

'Therefore, nan personnel is to usage Life Time's women's locker room.'

Montana said she had besides managed to activity retired a solution pinch lawmakers connected Friday, without specifying what this is.

'Tonight I sat down pinch agrarian blimpish Missourians and hashed retired a solution to nan locker room conundrum that should fulfill everyone who wants location to beryllium an existent solution (the thought was mostly theirs and I americium SO grateful),' Montana wrote.

'I will ne'er NOT judge successful engagement and listening and I'm still going to request justness from anyone who defamed maine aliases misused their authorities position to contradict my authorities arsenic a citizen.' 

Ellisville Police confirmed it is investigating to find if immoderate crime had really occurred.