Joy Reid joins outrage at trans members in locker rooms: ‘If I saw a penis … I would freak out, too’
Progressive ex-MSNBC host Joy Reid has admitted she would freak out if she saw a “penis in the ladies’ locker room” as she waded into the transgender debate.
Reid made the remarks as she reacted to the recent viral Los Angeles gym bathroom row that erupted after a transgender woman was accused of exposing their male genitals in the women’s changing room.
“I would be disturbed. I would be alarmed. I’m alarmed enough when I see a woman with her dangling boobies,” Reid said on her “Reid This Reid That” podcast on Sunday.
Transgender woman Alexis Black is confronted at Gold’s Gym in Los Angeles, California. Instagram/@listen2tish
Joy Reid speaks out on the transgender in the women’s locker room debate on the “Reid This Reid That,” show. Reid This Reid That / YouTube
“If I saw a penis in the ladies’ locker room, I would freak out, too.”
Singer Tish Hyman went viral earlier this month after she claimed she was kicked out of a former Gold’s Gym in Beverly Hills for confronting a person with male genitalia in the women’s locker room.
Footage of her shouting match with the trans woman, Alexis Black, exploded on social media after
Hyman, who is an out lesbian, accused the trans gym-goer of harassing women at the gym.
Wading into the issue, Reid staunchly defended Hyman’s stance — insisting her view wasn’t anything against trans people.
Singer Tish Hyman, who is an out lesbian, accused the trans gym-goer of harassing women at the gym. @listen2tish/Instagram
“What it’s saying is if I turn around and I see a pee pee, a penis in front of me inside of the room, I would probably go to management and say, ‘Wait a minute. Why is there somebody — a naked man — in this room?’” Reid said.
“Because just the world we live in, just from a safety standpoint and just from a privacy standpoint… I can see why she would have gone and reported to management.”
“Because if she’s uncomfortable, does she not have the right to be at least uncomfortable with the situation?” she added.
