Controversial Women’s-Only Gym Goes Viral And Some Men Are Calling It ‘Segregation’

We had a similar issue at Hohenfels Training Area when I was a 2LT. The post gym was declared off-limits to men three nights a week due to the same perceived problem, i.e., women who felt uncomfortable working out with men. As I poked my head into the gym on several of those restricted periods, I noticed there was no one using the facilities. So, "Lady's Night" was a failure, since the gym went unused for almost all of those periods. I brought that up at community meetings, "If you want this facility to be available without men, then you need to use it." Eventually the "Lady's Night" program went away due to disuse. So, entirely banning men from any public facility just because they are men seems to me to constitute illegal discrimination. And that policy also makes the invalid assumption that all men are misbehaving when they work out around women. That's not the case, we're not all creepy.

Back when I was a gym rat, there were women that came into the gym and were ogled by the men there. Have no problem if women want to open their own gym so they feel comfortable.

As soon as someone says their gym is males only, it will face lawsuits from people who don't even use the gym. That is the rule in America - it is OK for the "oppressed class" to exclude the "oppressors" but not for the "oppressors" to exclude the "oppressed."