Transgender Influencer Rose Montoya Defends Going Topless at White House
TikTok. "However, before coming out as trans, it was not."My transmasculine friends are showing off their top surgery scars and living in joy, and I wanted to join them.
And because it is perfectly within the law in Washington, D.C., I decided to join them and cover my nipples just to play it safe."Free the nipple #transMontoya's comments came shortly after many conservatives criticized a video in which she was seen topless at the White House for a Pride Month celebration.Over the weekend, Montoya posted another video on TikTok in which she can be seen standing next to President Joe Biden at the White House."Trans rights are human rights," Montoya says in the video while she shakes Biden's hand.Near the end of the video, Montoya is seen walking toward the White House and going topless as her hands cover her breasts."I had the honor of attending White House Pride, the largest one in history where the pride flag flew for the first time...This is trans joy.
We're here at the white house unapologetically trans, queer, and brown," the caption of the video said.Washington D.C. law does not explicitly say that people are not allowed to go topless but does note that "it shall not be lawful for any person or persons to make any obscene or indecent exposure of his or her person, or to make any lewd, obscene, or indecent sexual proposal, or to commit any other lewd, obscene, or indecent act in the District of Columbia.""This behavior is inappropriate and disrespectful for any event at the White House," a White House spokesperson told Newsweek on Tuesday in response to the video. "It is not reflective of the event we hosted to celebrate LGBTQI+ families or the other hundreds of guests who were in attendance.
