A transgender model has been banned from the White House after going topless at a Pride Event where she met President Joe Biden.
A White House official condemned the behavior as “inappropriate and disrespectful.”
Rose Montoya, 27, unhooked the top of her dress and clutched her chest on the South Lawn as someone shouted, “Are we topless in the White House?”
Video of the move went viral on social media.
“This behavior is inappropriate and disrespectful to any event at the White House. It is not a reflection of the event we organized to honor LGBTQI+ families or the other hundreds of guests who attended. Individuals in the video will not be invited to future events,” a White House spokesman said in a statement to DailyMail.com.
Rose Montoya, 27, attended a Pride party at the White House on Saturday and posed topless
Montoya was one of thousands invited to a Pride Month concert on the South Lawn Saturday at the White House.
Montoya shared an Instagram montage of the day with her 103,000 followers on Monday, seen dancing to the DJ and striking poses in front of landmarks like the Washington Monument and the White House Truman Balcony.
She also meets Jill Biden and tries to take a selfie with the president – accidentally shooting the camera on video instead of photo.
During her meeting with President Biden, she also said, “Trans rights are human rights.”
She captioned the video: “I had the honor of attending the White House Pride, the largest in history where the Pride flag flew for the first time.
“This is trans joy. We are unapologetically trans, queer and brown here in the White House.”
When the video went viral, she pointed out that being topless in public wasn’t illegal in Washington DC.
Montoya is seen with Joe Biden and declares: ‘Trans rights are human rights’
Jill Biden and President Biden at Saturday’s Pride event at the White House
She published a second video in which she declared, “Free the nipple!” The Idaho-born model, who began her transition in 2015, films how she meets her hosts.
“Hello, Mr. President!” she says when greeting Joe Biden. ‘Hello how are you?’ he answers. She says, “It’s an honor. Trans rights are human rights.’
The White House hosted the concert after it was postponed from its original Thursday date due to smoke blanketing the city from the Canadian wildfires.
Biden and his administration have emphasized that they are allies of the LGBTQ movement.
“You are loved, you are beautiful, you are heard, you belong,” Jill Biden told the audience on Saturday.
Montoya has been open about her breast augmentation in September 2020, tracheal shave in November 2020 – to remove an Adam’s apple, and genioplasty in March 2021, which makes the chin more feminine. Montoya has not had buttock surgery.
After her latest surgery, Montoya went viral after denouncing airport controls, calling them insensitive and inappropriate.
The Idaho-born model is also seen with Jill Biden dancing with the trans 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 US flags at the White House
Montoya was flying from Phoenix to Los Angeles when she was stopped by security after the full-body scanner detected an “abnormality” between her legs.
Can we talk about how horrible it is sometimes to travel while being transgender? I always have a huge fear of going through security,” the Spanish model explained in her viral TikTokwhich has been viewed 19 million times.
“And this means I fully acknowledge the privilege of having all my documents correct,” she continued.
“So, for example, the gender marker on my driver’s license says female.
“But when we go through the scanner, there’s a male scanner and a female scanner in the TSA checkpoint.”
Montoya, who has more than 481,000 TikTok followers, uses her platform to educate others about the difficulties transgender people face.