A transgender model who flashed her breasts at the White House has been branded “disrespectful” by the Joe Biden administration.
Rose Montoya, 27, met the US president and First Lady Jill Biden at the largest Pride celebration in White House history on Saturday.
In a short video shared to her Instagram page, Ms Montoya can be seen shaking Mr Biden’s hand and telling him “trans rights are human rights”.
A later clip shows the model standing with several friends as she briefly exposes her breasts on the South Lawn while someone shouts: “Are we topless at the White House?”
A White House spokesman later said that Ms Montoya had been “inappropriate and disrespectful” and would not be invited to future events.
“It is not reflective of the event we hosted to celebrate LGBTQI+ families or the other hundreds of guests who were in attendance,” they added.
The video sparked an online backlash, with many claiming her actions were in bad taste.
Responding to those critics, the model shared a further video with her 103,000 followers in which she defended herself.
She said: “Why is my chest now deemed inappropriate or illegal when I show it off, however before coming out as trans it was not?
“All you’re doing is affirming that I am a woman. All you’re doing is saying that trans women are women because for some reason, people like to sexualise women’s bodies and say that they’re inappropriate.
“My transmasculine friends were showing off their top surgery scars and living in joy, and I wanted to join them.”
She added: “And because it is perfectly within the law in Washington, DC, I decided to join them and cover my nipples just to play it safe, because I wanted to be fully free and myself.
“I had zero intention of trying to be vulgar or be profane in any way, I was simply living in joy, living my truth and existing in my body.”
At the event, Mr Biden made a speech calling for the protection of the rights and safety of LGBT people amid a spate of “terrifying” attacks on the community.
“When families across the country face excruciating decisions to relocate to a different state to protect their child from dangerous anti-LGTBQ laws, we have to act. We need to push back against the hundreds of callous and cynical bills introduced in states targeting transgender children, terrifying families and criminalising doctors and nurses,” he said.
“These bills and laws attack the most basic values and freedoms we have as Americans,” he said.
His speech drew cheers and applause from the crowd, many of whom wore shorts and sundresses in rainbow colours along with some dressed in drag.
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