Transgender Influencer Rose Montoya Defends Going Topless at White House

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Images and footage of a topless Montoya covering her breasts with her hands circled social media soon after the event. The spokesperson said that her actions were "not reflective of the event we hosted to celebrate LGBTQI+ families or the other hundreds of guests who were in attendance" and that "Individuals in the video will not be invited to future events." The White House called the incident “inappropriate and disrespectful” and said it’s “not reflective of the event we hosted to celebrate LGBTQI+ families” or other guests. "In a quick moment of fleeting and overwhelming trans joy, I decided to do something unbecoming of a guest of the president at the White House lawn celebration," she said.

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More than 1,000 LGBTQ+ people, their families, and allies attended the outdoor soiree. At another point, the video shows Montoya and other individuals bearing their chests while posing in front of the White House South Portico. The Bidens welcomed hundreds of LGBTQ families from across the country on Saturday to mark Pride month. The administration described the event as the largest-ever Pride celebration at the White House. Montoya, a transgender woman, is holding her breasts in that part of the video, but another person who is apparently a transgender man is showing off his mastectomy scars while flexing. Montoya's video drew fierce backlash from conservatives online, but her decision to go topless also upset some supporters of LGBTQ+ rights.

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"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." “In a quick moment of fleeting and overwhelming trans joy, I decided to do something unbecoming of a guest of the president at the White House lawn celebration,” she said. Rose Montoya, a transgender activist and social media influencer, will not be invited back to the White House after she posted a video of herself topless with two shirtless trans men at last weekend’s White House Pride Month celebration. "My trans masculine friends were showing off their top surgery scars and living in joy, and I wanted to join them," she said in the video.

A transgender influencer and activist has hit back after a TikTok video that showed her topless during a Pride Month celebration at the White House sparked outrage. The Biden administration weighed in on the matter on Tuesday, saying that Montoya and the other people included in her video would be banned from future events organized at the White House. The transgender activist who went viral for posing topless at a recent White House event apologized Friday. To get inside Saturday’s dinner, some guests had to hurry through hundreds of protesters outraged over the mounting humanitarian disaster for Palestinian civilians in Gaza.

The guests’ dressiness made for a striking contrast with protesters who gathered outside to confront the mix of politicians, media types and A-list celebrities about the war in Gaza. Although the event is lovingly referred to as the “Nerd Prom,” classic prom dresses and ruffle-collared frocks had no place on this red carpet, or on the sidewalks outside, as a flurry of attendees made their way into the event. Montoya ended the address by affirming her commitment to using the media kerfuffle as a “catalyst to create positive change” for herself and other trans individuals. "Trans rights are human rights," Montoya says in the video while she shakes Biden's hand. Montoya'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.

Shortly afterward, she posted a video on Instagram that showed a clip of her standing in front of the White House topless as she covered her nipples with her hands. "It has recently come to my attention that conservatives are trying to use the video of me topless at the White House to try to call the community groomers, etc.," Montoya said in a video posted to TikTok. Images and footage circling social media show trans model Rose Montoya topless, covering her breasts with her hands, during a LGBTQ Pride month celebration hosted by the administration on Saturday in Washington D.C. Among the attendees was Montoya, a transgender rights activist who rose to prominence in 2021 for her educational social media content about transgender issues. On Monday, Montoya posted a video to her Instagram and TikTok accounts, recapping the White House picnic.

"This is trans joy. We're here at the white house unapologetically trans, queer, and brown." “Going topless in DC is legal, and I fully support the movement to free the nipples. However, before coming out as trans, it was not,” she says in the response video, which has since been deleted.

The video then shifts to Montoya dancing with the transgender flag, standing next to others at the event and posing for photos and then, finally, Montoya standing alongside several others, topless, in front of the White House. Rose Montoya, a transgender woman, shared a video she filmed from Saturday's event with her TikTok followers. “More so than ever before I have learned how powerful and just how impactful my actions are,” she said in her apology video. “I also feel energized to educate and articulate to others the importance and power of trans joy in a more effective way,” she added. The debate around equalizing nudity laws across genders — sometimes called the “Free the Nipple” movement — has been growing in the United States.

All you’re doing is saying that trans women are women because for some reason, people like to sexualise women’s bodies and say that they’re inappropriate. Montoya's video drew fierce backlash from conservatives online, but Montoya's decision to go topless also upset some supporters of LGBTQ+ rights. Hundreds of guests were in attendance at the event, which the White House said was the largest Pride party ever hosted at the official home and office of the president. "The topless video took place after the majority of people had cleared out, as no one else is present in the video besides the topless people," one Twitter user wrote.