New Zealand Gym Franchise Apologises For "Soy is making kids gay"

January 27, 2010

A Gym Franchise in New Zealand has landed it in more than just a spot of bother after its newsletter included a link to an article of a homophobic US writer.

Club Physical has landed itself in the middle of a PR nightmare after the gym’s newsletter gave a link to an outrageous claim made that "soy is making kids gay".

The article as written by the conservative US writer Jim Rutz, said "homosexuality is always deviant”, “soy is making kids gay" and further claimed soy was "feminizing, and commonly leads to a decrease in the size of the penis, sexual confusion and homosexuality".

Making matters even worse Rutz also said homosexuals could "truthfully say that they can't remember a time when excess estrogen wasn't influencing them".

Rutz is no stranger to controversy and he has in the past made comments like "the little foibles of liberals, homosexuals, Muslims, radical feminists, Nazi retreads, atheists, FDA bureauquacks, lawyers, Marxists, AP reporters, FEMA officials, Democrats, New Agers, politically correct trendoids and most recently, Hindus".

The Club Physical executive chief executive Paul Richards after initially being found nowhere to the embarrassing and outrageous link eventually apologized and said: "I was on a tight deadline and in the back of my mind I realised it might provoke comment. I'm afraid I didn't put enough thought into it."

One club member John Kingi reacted angrily set up a Facebook group called and said he would cancel his gym membership. He said: "The problem with articles like this is it tries to create a reason, a cause, for why someone is what they are, and the inherent assumption therefore must be that there must be a cure. If something created this, like soy milk, then by not drinking soy milk, you must be able to stop being gay."

Victoria University biology Professor Charles Daugherty refuted the Rutz' claims and said: "Soy has some relatively high concentration of estrogen, for example compared to milk, so there's been speculation about that around for a long time.

"The causes of having one sexual orientation or another are still uncertain and so it's reasonably certain that both genes and the environment". 

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