Transgender activist Rose Montoya is banned from returning to the White House, an official said Tuesday.
Montoya, a biological male, sparked outrage on Monday after posting a video in which he showed off his fake breasts while at a White House Pride event over the weekend. In that video, Montoya is standing beside another transgender activist, a biological female, who was showing off the scars from where her breasts were removed.
A White House spokesperson said the individuals in the video will not return to the White House.
“This behavior is inappropriate and disrespectful for any event at the White House,” the spokesperson said, Fox News reported.
“It is not reflective of the event we hosted to celebrate LGBTQI+ families or the other hundreds of guests who were in attendance,” the spokesperson continued. “Individuals in the video will not be invited to future events.”
Montoya defended his actions in a video on Monday, saying that exposing his female-like breasts did not violate Washington, D.C., laws. He also claimed the outraged affirmed that he is a woman.
“Why is my chest now deemed inappropriate or illegal when I show it off? However, before coming out as trans, it was not,” Montoya said. “All you’re doing is affirming I am a woman. All you’re doing is saying that trans women are women because for some reason, people like to sexualize women’s bodies and say that they are inappropriate.”
Montoya added that he had “zero intention of trying to be vulgar or be profane in any way.”
“I was simply living my joy and my truth and existing in my body,” Montoya said.
The White House Pride event generated criticism for another reason: perceived disrespect of the American flag.
To honor pride month, the White House has hoisted the so-called “progress pride flag” between two American flags from the bottom of the Truman Balcony. U.S. Flag Code, however, says the American flag “should be at the center and at the highest point of the group when a number of flags of States or localities or pennants of societies are grouped and displayed from staffs.”
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