The latest cultural flashpoint didn’t erupt on a college campus or a city hall floor — it happened in the locker room of a Gold’s Gym.
Tish Hyman, a Grammy-nominated rapper, producer, and openly gay woman, says she was banned from the Gold’s Gym at the Beverly Center in Los Angeles after objecting to a biological male using the women’s locker room. According to Hyman, the confrontation wasn’t theoretical — it was visceral, immediate, and, in her words, frightening.
“I was naked, scared, and being yelled at,” she wrote in a now-viral post on X (formerly Twitter), alongside a video showing the moments after the confrontation. “He called me a b**** in front of everyone.” In the video, multiple Gold’s Gym staffers try to mediate a heated scene in the hallway outside the women’s changing area.
“I’m a woman,” Hyman can be heard saying, “and I have every right to not want a man in the restroom when I’m naked.”
Hyman, 42, says this wasn’t an isolated concern — she claims multiple women at the gym had filed written reports about the same individual entering the women’s locker room. “The gym staff has done absolutely nothing,” she told OutKick, adding that the biological male in question had allegedly been harassing women in the facility for weeks.
Instead of addressing those concerns, Gold’s Gym reportedly revoked Hyman’s membership.
“They refused to give me any paperwork, nothing in writing,” she said in an Instagram livestream. “But they told me I could work out one last time. I’m just a woman standing up for women’s rights. I’m not a Republican, I’m not a Democrat — I voted for Kamala Harris.”
Now, Hyman says she’s rethinking the very policies she once supported.
The gym in question was recently sold to EoS Fitness, which has so far declined to comment. Gold’s Gym corporate has remained silent as well.
But the public certainly hasn’t.
Conservative commentator and women’s rights advocate Riley Gaines posted the footage and praised Hyman: “God bless you for speaking the truth loudly.” Gaines, a former NCAA swimmer who’s become a prominent voice pushing back on biological males competing in women’s sports and entering female-only spaces, called the episode “yet another example of corporate cowardice.”
And cowardice is one word for it. Another might be capitulation.
This is the environment women are being asked to accept — one where voicing discomfort with the presence of biological males in intimate, vulnerable spaces is not only dismissed but punished. The chilling irony? It took a gay, left-leaning woman with industry clout to say the quiet part out loud: that gender policies in public accommodations are not merely abstract social theories — they’re policies that play out in the most personal and private places of all.
And when a woman says “I felt unsafe,” the institutions that once championed “believe women” suddenly go quiet.
