Transphobia Hurts Everyone: The Harassment of a Disabled Woman by Lorelei Sprott

By: Punk On The Frontline

Transphobes love to claim they’re just “protecting women,” but time and time again, their crusade exposes what they’re really about—policing anyone who doesn’t fit their narrow, outdated view of gender. The latest example? Lorelei Sprott, a far-right extremist and longtime Trump supporter, publicly harassing a cisgender disabled woman, Aubrey Metropulos, in a Planet Fitness shower, all because Aubrey didn’t fit her idea of what a woman should look or sound like.

Sprott, who lives in Lake Havasu, Arizona, and works with Realty One Group Arizona, took to Facebook with a post dripping in transphobic fearmongering, claiming she was “verbally accosted by a MAN” in the women’s showers at Planet Fitness. According to her, the supposed “man” knocked her shower curtain open and later caused a scene at the front desk, demanding to be recognized as a woman. She ranted about how Planet Fitness “openly approves men using the women’s locker room,” urging “mothers and daughters” to be afraid.

Here’s the problem—none of it was true.

The person Sprott attacked wasn’t a trans woman but a cisgender woman, assigned female at birth and still identifying as such. Aubrey Metropulos, the actual victim in this situation, came forward to set the record straight:

“To clear things up, I am the disabled woman who was accosted in the shower and accused of being a man. I am not. My prosthetic leg fell into my own shower, and the able-bodied lady in the handicapped shower asked if I was OK, assuming I had fallen. My voice is fairly deep, and she then accused me of being a man and questioned me about my genitalia. I do not have a penis, and I am fully biologically female.”

Let that sink in. A woman was harassed in the shower, not for being trans, but for having a deep voice and a prosthetic leg. This is what happens when people like Sprott turn their paranoia into action—they don’t just target trans people, they come after anyone who doesn’t conform to their rigid, bigoted standards.

And if you think this was just an innocent mistake, think again.

Sprott didn’t stop after getting called out. Instead, she escalated things. After Planet Fitness revoked her membership (rightfully so), she doxxed Aubrey, posting photos of her without consent and spreading more misinformation, calling her a man and encouraging others to judge for themselves. Even when Aubrey provided multiple forms of identification—including her birth certificate and ID—to both Planet Fitness staff and to Sprott herself, Sprott refused to accept reality. Instead of admitting she was wrong, she doubled down, insisting Aubrey was a man simply because she didn’t look or sound the way Sprott thought she should.

Aubrey nailed it in her original response:

“This anti-trans hatred isn’t just affecting trans people. Situations like this, where someone wants to be the gender police, are affecting anyone that happens to come across a little more masculine than the norms. No one should be demanding to know what’s in anyone’s pants. That’s some weird fixation people filled with hate have.”

She’s right. This isn’t about “safety.” This isn’t about “protecting women.” It’s about control, humiliation, and an obsession with other people’s bodies. The reality is, when you let transphobia run unchecked, it doesn’t stop with trans people. It starts sweeping up cis people too—especially gender-nonconforming ones, disabled folks, and anyone who doesn’t present the way these people think they should.

And let’s be real about who we’re dealing with.

Lorelei Sprott (formerly known as Lorelei Tuss) isn’t just some clueless gym-goer making a mistake. She’s a far-right extremist, a diehard Trump supporter, and a bigot who has spent years peddling transphobia and right-wing conspiracy theories. People like her don’t care about protecting women—they care about enforcing their warped, outdated ideology, no matter who gets hurt in the process.

Lorelei Sprott’s hypocrisy is on full display in her own words. Her bio proudly states, “Love God, Love Others, Love Yourself… Never Lay Down, Never Give Up. Pain is Fear Leaving Our Body.” Yet, rather than embodying the Christian values of love and compassion, she chooses to spend her time spreading hatred, attacking innocent people, and fueling transphobic hysteria. Like so many Christian nationalists, she cherry-picks scripture to justify her bigotry while blatantly ignoring the core teachings of her own religion—grace, humility, and kindness. There’s nothing Christ-like about humiliating a disabled woman in a locker room or refusing to admit when you’re wrong. Her actions don’t reflect faith; they reflect the same tired, hate-fueled obsession with controlling and punishing those who don’t fit into her rigid, far-right worldview.

Planet Fitness made the right call. They refused to cater to bigotry, and they protected their member from harassment. That’s how it should be. But the fact that Aubrey even had to defend herself—had to prove her womanhood to someone who had no right to question it in the first place—exposes just how dangerous this rhetoric is.

Lorelei Sprott wanted to push transphobia, but all she did was prove what trans people have been saying for years: When you create a world where strangers feel entitled to police gender, nobody is safe.