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Joy Reid Says She’d ‘Freak Out’ at Male Genitals in a Women’s Locker Room

Her podcast comments respond to a viral Los Angeles Gold’s Gym dispute under California’s gender-identity access rules.

Overview

  • On her Reid This Reid That podcast, the former MSNBC host weighed in on a Nov. 2 incident at Gold’s Gym Beverly Center highlighted by musician Tish Hyman’s video.
  • Reid said her reaction is about privacy and safety, stressing it was not aimed at transgender people and that she would report such a situation to management.
  • Hyman has alleged a person with male genitalia entered the women’s locker room, was removed, and that the gym later canceled her membership.
  • The New York Post identified the trans woman seen in the confrontation as Alexis Black and published images from the exchange.
  • Coverage notes that California law permits individuals to use facilities consistent with their gender identity, framing the dispute’s legal context.