Gay RV park and campground bans transgender men to “build a like-minded atmosphere”
Outcry over co-owner s Facebook posts prompts larger discussion about transgender inclusion in gender-specific spaces
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RV camper – Photo: Jake Stone, via Unsplash.
An RV park and campground that markets itself to gay men has come under fire for banning transgender men from entering their male-only campgrounds due to open this spring.
Bryan Quinn, co-owner of Camp Boomerang RV Park and Campground, in Orleans, Mich., posted a message explaining the ban in a post on the campground’s now-deleted Facebook page.
“Camp Boomerang is a private, membership-only RV park/campground that allows only ‘guys, ” Quinn wrote. “A ‘guy,’ in terms of this discussion, is defined as a person with a penis, [who] presents himself as male and has a state-issued ID that says ‘male.’