The transgender woman and the center of a viral Los Angeles gym bathroom row has insisted she is entitled to use the female facilities — and wouldn’t be comfortable in a trans-only locker room.
Alexis Black spoke out after singer-songwriter, Tish Hyman, claimed she was recently kicked out of a Gold’s Gym in Beverly Hills for confronting who she described as a “man” in the female bathroom.
Footage of the shouting match quickly exploded on social media after Hyman accused the trans gym-goer of exposing her penis in the locker room and harassing women.
Black, who is currently transitioning but still has male genitalia, has since shot down the claims, insisting to TMZ that she was fully covered and denied anything inappropriate unfolded ahead of the caught-on-camera fracas.
“The truth in the moment is far from what she is purporting it to be. Literally every time that she’s done that I’ve had women in the locker room comforting me because of how aggressive she was towards me,” Black claimed.
“I know that I’m a woman,”
“I began using hormones this year in February … you know, name change, and it says female on my ID — and hormones. I’m registered as a female with the gym,” she added.
Black defended her use of the female changing room — arguing she would feel discriminated against if she was forced to use a male or trans-only one.
“You’re not going to put a trans woman with a trans man just because we’re trans,” she said.
“That seems like a whole new envelope of discrimination.”
The saga erupted after Hyman, a 42-year-old Bronx native, posted footage of her screaming for Black to get out of the female locker room.
“Now he knows how to be a man, right? Now he knows how to be a man. Stay outta the women’s locker room! We don’t want it. He needs to have his gym membership revoked for that s–t!” Hyman shouted in the clip.
“We already filed reports. No, no, no! You can’t get rid of me for this! I’m a woman and I have every right not to want a man in the restroom when I’m naked! There are girls naked in there,” she argued.
Hyman claimed she was booted from the gym moments later and had her membership revoked.
Footage shot by onlookers captured Hyman reaming gym staff before she was escorted from the facility.
“Men! Grown men with big d—ks in the women’s locker room! And that’s why I’m getting kicked out, and I wanna make sure the girls to know!” she fumed.
“What the f—k? Everybody saw that man in the f—king locker room, and no one’s saying s—t! … Me, naked in front of a man without my permission, but I’m the one who gets kicked out the gym, y’all!”
The gym, which was recently acquired by EōS Fitness, hasn’t addressed the controversy.
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