Los Angeles-based musician Tish Hyman fired back at a crowd that tried to boo her after she said transgender women arenât women, while pressing Democratic California Sen. Scott Wiener to address biological womenâs safety.
Hyman posted a video Tuesday across her social media accounts showing an exchange she had with Wiener as he took part in a town hall-style event. Explaining that sheâd recently had an altercation with a biological male in the womenâs locker room at Goldâs Gym Beverly Center on Nov. 2, Hyman said sheâs âdeeply concerned about womenâs safety in our female-only spaces.â
âWhat would you say to women who are seeking assurance that their safety will be protected from men who, by California law, can self-ID as women in women-only spaces, sir? Please tell me,â Hyman asked.
âYeah, so we want, I mean, everyone to be safe. We also know that we have trans people, both men and women, who are men and women,â Wiener responded. âSo if youâre a trans woman, are women.â
While Hyman applauded the Democrat lawmaker for some of the work heâs done, she pressed him on his support for bills that have been âdangerous for women and young childrenâ within once women-only spaces.
âIâm telling you, as a woman, first and foremost, that this is dangerous,â Hyman continued. âI want to support you. I have millions of people behind me watching this right now. We want to know, are you going to protect women?â
âNot trans women, women, trans women are a different thing,â Hyman added as a crowd member could be heard beginning to push back.
A member of the audience could be heard off-camera pushing back against Hyman, responding, âTrans women are women.â
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âSo if thereâs another black woman in here who wants to tell me how they feel, please join in. But all of you are not. I donât know who you are, what you are, but Iâm a lesbian,â Hyman said. âIâm telling you right now, men are harassing women in the locker room.â
Wiener then said he appreciated her perspective and apologized for the assaults she experienced. While emphasizing that the safety of âall womenâ must be protected, the Democrat lawmaker added that âtrans women are also brutalized in this country.â
Attempting to broaden his point, Wiener included âwomen and cisgender womenâ as groups who face violence, saying all categories deserve protection.
In a statement provided to the Daily Caller News Foundation, Hyman told the outlet that the exchange with Wiener wasnât about politics.
âMy exchange with Senator Wiener wasnât about politics â it was about accountability. Women deserve to have their safety and privacy respected without being dismissed or labeled for speaking the truth. I hope our leaders start listening to women instead of trying to silence them,â Hyman said.
Weinerâs office did not respond to the DCNFâs request for comment.
In her Nov. 2 video posted to social media, Hyman recorded an altercation with a biological man identifying as a transgender woman who had entered the womenâs locker room.
Hyman said the individual allegedly assaulted her multiple times, with their final encounter beginning when he came up behind her and called her a âbitchâ in a deep, angry voice.
California law allows individuals to use restrooms consistent with their
âgender identityâ in both private and public spaces. According to the ACLU of Southern California, the Unruh Civil Rights Act protects individuals using facilities in alignment with their âgender identityâ at business establishments.
Wiener has long supported transgender ideology and pushed its policy ideas. In 2023, the Democrat attempted to label a Christian advocacy organization as a âhate groupâ after its outreach coordinator testified during a hearing that men cannot have menstrual cycles.
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