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So there you have it: the feelings of white men matter more than the rights of black lesbians. That’s the takeaway from the mad fracas at a Gold’s Gym in Los Angeles this week, where a female gym-goer by the name of Tish Hyman says her membership was unceremoniously revoked. Her offense? She dared to complain about the presence of a person with a penis – what we used to call a bloke – in the women’s changing room.
Ms. Hyman is a lesbian and a singer originally from the Bronx in New York. She says she encountered a man who identifies as a woman in the changing area of the gym she uses in LA. She was shaken.
“I was naked in the locker room,” she said. “I turn around and there’s a man there in boy clothes, lip gloss, standing there looking at me. I’m butt naked.” Understandably unsettled by this experience, she made a fuss. And yet it was reportedly her who was kicked out.
Clips of the showdown between Ms. Hyman and the gym staff have gone viral. They make for extraordinary viewing. In one, Hyman makes an impromptu and thundering speech in the gym’s reception area.
“Men, grown men, with big dicks, in the women’s locker room!” she says. “Everyone saw that man in the women’s locker room but no one’s saying shit.” She is, though. “I’m fucking done with it,” she says. Many people – me included – will have cheered while watching this forceful, moving plea for a woman’s right to privacy and dignity.
The response of her fellow gym-goers was somewhat more muted. As she holds forth on how scandalous it is that a member of the opposite sex was allowed to see her naked – “without my permission” – they just mill around, nonplussed. I guess that’s LA for you, a city so sozzled on “social justice” nonsense that it shrugs its shoulders at the thought of males in a female changing room.
In another clip, Ms. Hyman can be seen confronting the male in question. There seems to be some historic beef here. It would appear that she has filed complaints about him before but nothing was done. He is quite clearly a man. I know you’re not supposed to say that. I know it’s “transphobic.” But, like Ms. Hyman, I’m done with surrendering the truth of my own eyes to appease ideologues who dream of erasing the reality of sex. Truth matters. As do women’s rights.
Isn’t it crazy where “progressive” politics has ended up? A woman booted out after she objected to the presence of a male in a women-only zone. A black lesbian reprimanded for daring to challenge a white male. A black woman in 2020s America reportedly banished from a building for standing up for her right to undress in peace.
Imagine going back to 2005 and trying to explain this to people – that in the future a black lady would be punished for not wanting male eyes on her naked body. People would have thought you mad. There’s no way that will happen, they’d have said. Yet here we are. Tish Hyman in LA. Sandie Peggie in Fife, the nurse who’s suing her hospital trust for making her share an intimate space with a trans-identifying male. The Darlington nurses who are also suing their trust for compelling them to disrobe among biological males. The lunacy is transatlantic.
Women’s rights have been broken on the wheel of the trans ideology. It’s so clear now that what passes for “progressive” activism is really an assault on the properly progressive gains of the 20th century. It feels like misogyny in drag: the unwinding of the hard-won rights of womankind dressed up in the language of progress. Such is the social delirium unleashed by identity politics and the cult of DEI – we end up in a situation where a black lesbian is shamed for wanting the most basic of rights.
It’s not trans-identifying males who are part of a new civil-rights movement. It’s women like Tish Hyman, who are speaking out for the re-establishment of women’s dignity. There was a Rosa Parks vibe to her angry gym speech. Where Mrs. Parks refused to sit at the back of the bus, Ms. Hyman refuses to get undressed in front of male strangers. Two cries for liberty I can get behind.
