A transgender actress and transgender model caused a stir on Saturday when they bared their breasts at an event celebrating Pride on the White House lawn.
Rose Montoya, 27, was among hundreds invited to the White House for the celebrations, where she met the President and First Lady – before removing her dress and embracing her bare breasts on the South Lawn.
“Are we topless in the White House?!” says the person recording the clip, while Montoya waves her hands up and down, grinning.
Montoya shared an Instagram montage of the day with her 103,000 followers on Monday and was seen dancing to the DJ and posing in front of landmarks like the Washington Monument and the Truman Balcony of the White House.
Montoya is also seen meeting Jill Biden and attempting to take a selfie with the President — with the camera mistakenly being on video rather than a photo.
In her meeting with President Biden, she also said, “Trans rights are human rights.”
Rose Montoya, 27, attended a Pride party at the White House on Monday and posed topless
Montoya is seen with Joe Biden and declares: “Trans rights are human rights”
She captioned the video: “Had the honor of attending White House Pride, the largest in history where the Pride flag was flown for the first time.”
“This is trans glee.” “We’re uncompromisingly trans, queer, and brown here in the White House.”
When Montoya’s topless video went viral, she pointed out that it’s not illegal in Washington DC to be topless in public.
She posted a second video declaring, “Free the nipple!” The Idaho-born model, whose transition began in 2015, films herself meeting her hosts.
“Hello, Mr. President!” she says as she greets Joe Biden. ‘Hello, how are you?’ he replies. She says, ‘It’s an honor.’ Trans rights are human rights.’
In another portion of the clip, Jill Biden tells the crowd, “You’re loved, you’re beautiful, you’re heard, you belong.”
Joe Biden calls them “some of the bravest and most inspiring people I’ve ever known.”
The President celebrated Pride Month and the LGBTQ+ community by unveiling the Pride flag between two American flags.
But Twitter users were quick to criticize Biden, arguing that under the US Flag Code, the American flag should be the focus of any ad featuring multiple national flags or pennants.
Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton tweeted, “To advance the revolutionary transgender agenda against children, Biden is violating fundamental tenets of the US Flag Code and disrespecting any American military member buried under his flags.”
He then quoted the US flag code, which reads: “When several flags of states or places or pennants of societies are grouped and displayed, the flag of the United States of America should be at the center and at the highest point of the group.” by staffs.’
dr Roger Marshall tweeted that the exhibition was “a disgrace”.
“This is a disgrace.” Not only does it violate the US Flag Code, but it is a blatant example of the incompetence and insistence of the White House in putting its social agenda above patriotism,” he wrote.
The Idaho-born model also stars with Jill Biden, dancing with the transgender flag
President Joe Biden and his administration are being criticized online for violating the US flag code after displaying a rainbow-colored Pride flag between two American flags at the White House
The President celebrated Pride Month and the LGBTQ+ community with an unveiling of the exhibit
A participant uses a rainbow flag to keep cool during a Pride Month celebration at the White House in Washington, DC on Saturday
Montoya has been open about her September 2020 breast augmentation, November 2020 trachea shaving — to remove an Adam’s apple — and March 2021 genioplasty, which makes the chin more feminine. Montoya did not undergo buttock surgery.
After her recent surgery, Montoya went viral after she denounced airport security, calling it insensitive and inappropriate.
Montoya was flying from Phoenix to Los Angeles when she was stopped at security after the full-body scanner found an “abnormality” between her legs.
“Can we talk about how awful it is sometimes traveling as transgender?” “I always get very scared before going through security,” the Hispanic model explained in her viral TikTok, which has been viewed 19 million times.
“And that means I fully appreciate the privilege of having all my documents correct,” she continued.
“For example, the gender on my driver’s license is ‘female’.
“But if you go through the scanner, at the TSA checkpoint, you’ll find a male scanner and a female scanner.”
Montoya has spoken openly about the humiliation she experienced at airport security when she flew from Phoenix to Los Angeles in March 2021
When a traveler enters the scanner, a TSA officer presses a button that designates a gender, either male or female, based on the traveler’s appearance, according to the TSA website.
The system does not accommodate transgender people, making travel difficult and sometimes traumatic for members of the transgender community.
“You know, when I look at myself, I look like a woman and I’m a woman.” So that’s great. “I love having systemic privilege when I’m feeling unsafe, which is the case in an airport,” Montoya continued.
“But when I go through the scanner, I always have an ‘anomaly’ between my legs that sets off the alarm.”
Montoya, who has more than 481,000 TikTok followers, uses her platform to educate others about the difficulties trans people face.
“Being stopped by the police or traveling is scary for a lot of us because our records aren’t accurate,” she explained in a follow-up video.
“That’s a big problem because there’s a lot of gatekeeping.”
“Sometimes it’s very difficult to change documents,” she remarked.
“Many states require an operation that is difficult to access in the first place.”
Montoya said the state of Idaho, where she was born, still doesn’t allow her to change her birth certificate, but that all of her other legal documents have been changed to clarify that she is female.
Montoya said she felt abused and disrespected at the airport and insisted that “TSA needs to remove gender settings from their scanners.”
Montoya said TSA should believe her when she tells them she is a trans woman and doesn’t want to be frisked or scanned as such by a man
“Although my legal documents are being changed, I really hope transgender people will be able to change their documents more easily in the future,” she said.
Montoya revealed in another video that she had an easier time flying home because she used a “tuck kit” to tape her groin area so she could walk through the TSA scanner without triggering it.
Many people asked her what TSA could do better, and she pointed out that the problem was systemic.
“Transphobia is ingrained in every system of power in this nation, so the basic solution is to just believe transgender people when they tell you who they are,” she said.
“TSA needs to remove gender settings from their scanners, and they should believe me when I tell them I’m a trans woman and I don’t want to be scanned by a man or scanned as a man because I…” ‘I’m not.’