Associated Press
Transgender advocate Rose Montoya is no longer welcome at White House events after posting on social media a video of herself and two others going topless for a time at Saturday’s Pride Month celebration on the South Lawn.
“The behavior was simply unacceptable,” White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Tuesday. “It was unfair to the hundreds of attendees who were there to celebrate their families.”
Speaking at the White House press briefing, Jean-Pierre said, “Individuals in the video certainly will not be invited to future events.” The White House spokeswoman said the bare-chested display “was not a normal thing that has happened under this administration.”
President Joe Biden hosted the event to show the administration’s support of the LGBTQ+ community. There has recently been a push by some Republican leaders at the state level to restrict drag shows and limit the options for youth who are seeking to transition their genders.
Biden said Saturday that he had a message for the entire community, but especially for transgender children: “You are loved. You are heard. You’re understood. And you belong.”
Parts of his speech appeared in the video posted on social media by Montoya, whose Instagram biography identifies her as an educator, model and actor.
Montoya defended her post on Instagram and Twitter, saying that “going topless in Washington, DC is legal and I fully support the movement in freeing the nipple.” She said critics of her toplessness affirmed that she is, in fact, a woman, as a man would not face similar pushback. She said she had “zero intention of trying to be vulgar or be profane in anyway,” adding that she covered her nipples with her hands in the video “just to play it safe.”
4 comments
Ocean Joe
June 14, 2023 at 10:24 am
Dems need to draw a line on the foolishness.
It’s like Biden’s dad used to say: “Joey, don’t let trans folk go topless on the White House lawn, and when you run for reelection find an opponent whose been impeached twice, indicted twice, paid off a hooker, been sued for rape and defamation, and try not to fall down so much.”
Otherwise we could get all stuck with some rightwing moron.
Earl Pitts American
June 14, 2023 at 11:08 am
Thanks OJ,
Joe’s Dad was a political genious a man before his time. Joe’s Dad was a lifeguard with hairy legs too and had to fight CornPop’s Dad on the regular. And believe you me, CotnPop’s Dad, PopPop was one tough cookie.
Thanks again OJ for your golden words of historical and folklorical wisdom.
EPA
Elliott Offen
June 14, 2023 at 12:04 pm
Get off the internet and go get you some help you clown.
Edward Norton
June 14, 2023 at 10:48 am
I have an anonymous source who attended the event report that potus got a bone that would not go down upon seeing the buubes. The medics had to give potus tranqulizers to make the bone subside.
Ed Norton
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