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waiter filed a $1 mil
lion lawsuit Jan. 28
against Cascade Ath-
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letic Club’s Gresham
Icvcation alleging gender identity
discrimination. She says she was
ordered to leave the facility if she
could not “prove” she was a woman,
was publicly harassed and har
angued and was threatened with
police intervention.
Buckwalter serves as executive
director of It’s Time, Oregon!, the
statewide chapter of a nationally or
ganized grassroots group seeking to
secure and safeguard the rights of all
trans people. She also was instru
mental in the passage of Portland
and Multnomah County civil rights
ordinances banning bias based on
gender identity in places of public
accommodation.
Here are the details of the suit,
as described in documents filed
with the Multnomah County C ir
cuit Court:
Buckwalter first visited the gym
Nov. 26 after spotting a listing in a Lori Buckwalter says she was ordered to leave Cascade
Health and Fitness Club Directory Athletic Club if she could not “ prove” she was a woman
provided by her employer, Mult
nomah County, for which she serves as a diver that her attire was consistent with the club’s
sity coordinator. In signing a 15-month con dress code.
tract, she provided an employee with her credit
Buckwalter says Mark Eisenzimmer told her:
card information along with her Oregon driver’s “I think you are a man, and 1 don’t want you
license, which establishes that she is female.
using the women’s locker room anymore. 1 want
She soon received a note in the mail that
you out of this club.”
welcomed her as a member. According to the
When Buckwalter walked to the front desk,
lawsuit, for the next two and a half weeks she
she says that the men repeatedly and loudly
“ visited the club numerous times...during
yelled, “Sir! Oh sir!" at her back and that Mark
which time she used the facilities, including the
Eisenzimmer added, “If you don’t leave this club
women’s locker room, without incident."
immediately, I will call the police.”
All that changed Dec. 15, when she visited
Anticipating a confrontation with law
the club, which is located at 19201 S.E. Division
enforcement authorities, Buckwalter says she
St., on her lunch hour. As she exited the
returned to the women’s locker room to change
women’s locker room to begin exercising, she
her clothes. An employee then approached her
says she was confronted by owners Mark and
and closely watched her continue to get
Frank Eisenzimmer near the front desk and in dressed before escorting her to Mark Eisenzim-
public view of several employees and customers
mer’s office.
who were arriving and leaving.
“After leaving the dressing room, and on the
According to the lawsuit, one of the defen way to Mark Eisenzimmer’s office, Buckwalter
dants said to Buckwalter in a loud voice, “You attempted to stop at her car to obtain addition
can’t he out here like that.” She maintains
al identification,” the lawsuit states. “Mark
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