Meet Tish Hyman, The California Lesbian Fighting To Keep Men Out Of Women’s Locker Rooms

The war to keep men who believe that they are women out of women’s locker rooms found unlikely fighter this month: a lesbian gym-rat from Los Angeles who has ran into so many men in the women’s locker room she’s screaming about it at the top of her lungs.

In the video that has more than 18 million views on X, Hyman was getting kicked out of her gym after complaining about men invading her privacy in the locker room. She told The Daily Wire that the now-viral outburst was her last chance to tell other ladies at the gym what was going on before she was banished.

“That moment was me trying to warn the ladies in the gym,” Hyman told The Daily Wire. “I didn’t know it would warn ladies around the world.”

“I knew I wasn’t going to be there anymore to warn the girls, so I just yelled out. I’m not usually that loud and disruptive, but this was the only way that I could warn the ladies in that gym. You have young ladies in there just being traumatized.”

One of the men traumatizing Hyman in the locker room was Grant Freeman, and he was certainly worth a warning label. He’s a convicted criminal of domestic assault who slammed his now ex-wife’s head into a toilet seat. Hyman said she’s seen at least seven men in the women’s locker room over the last month, including Freeman, who now identifies as a woman and goes by “Alexis,” on multiple occasions.

Hyman said Freeman was disrupting her daily habit, and that she’d pray that she’d miss him.

“I go to the gym a different time every day. I just pray…please God, don’t let me see him today.” But she did. Her last run in with Freeman she said was the most intense.

 

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He is the one with the criminal past, yet Hyman said she was the one escorted out of the gym by police after she raised the alarm.

She didn’t get help from the people she wanted to at the gym, but someone pulled out their phone, took a video, and changed Hyman’s life.

It caught the attention of Riley Gaines, who knows all to well what it’s like to share a locker room with a man. Gaines, who swam at the University of Kentucky, shared a locker room with Lia Thomas, the first openly trans-identifying woman NCAA champion. Gaines has been the leader for keeping trans-identifying women out of women’s sports ever since.

It’s no surprise a repost from Gaines turned int0 millions of views for Hyman’s video, making the black and lesbian entertainer from the Bronx a new face in the protect women movement.

“The reason why we got here is because we’re not standing in truth. We’re lying to these men and telling them that they’re women.”

Being bold comes natural for Hyman — she said the “social pressure” others feel has never stopped her from speaking up.

“So when I saw this I was like what is going on? Why is no one speaking about this? Are you crazy? This is dangerous.”

Hyman didn’t think protecting women would come with the amount of internet fame she’s experienced over the last week. Primetime interviews and countless new followers. She said the attention is sometimes “overwhelming,” but worth it to stop people from thinking men and women are interchangeable.

“There are boys and girls. Ladies and gentlemen. You know, dresses and pants,” she said. “It’s okay if you want to swap them, but you don’t have to change who you are physically to do that. And we know that.”

And she wanted to make sure California state lawmaker and hopeful to replace Nancy Pelosi in the House, Scott Weiner, knew the truth too. Hyman flew to San Francisco Monday to question Weiner on his pro-transgender policies.

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Hyman was front and center of the room, sitting feet from Weiner. She said she saw the moderator at the event toss her question for Weiner aside, and knew it was time for Hyman to be bold again. She took the mic and asked the question herself.

“What would you say to women who are seeking assurance that their safety will be protected from men who, by California law, can self-identify as women in women-only spaces?” Hyman asked.

Weiner replied in part: “Trans women are women.” When Hyman corrected the senator telling him “trans women are men,” the crowd turned on Hyman. She said men were shouting “boo” toward her and yelling “trans women are women.”

Had a chance to have a conversation with Senator Weiner. It was an honest one. I am hopeful that this is the first of many conversations we will have regarding women’s safety .

Senator Weiner said he likes working with fresh young people and that he is open to ideas.

And… pic.twitter.com/qEWcuh6DXJ

— Tish Hyman (@listen2tish) November 11, 2025

A room of men telling a woman they can change biology if they want to. She wasn’t backed by a single person in that room, but she kept going.

“No they’re not, they’re men,” she said, in a conversation that never went further than that. She didn’t get the answers she wanted, but she left the room wanting to speak out more.

“I am motivated for change. I can’t be okay until I know that women are protected by law.”

It’s not about politics to Hyman. She said women’s safety should be a nonpartisan issue.

“Don’t let people brainwash you. Undo the brainwashing. We know what pink is for, and we know what blue is for. There’s nothing wrong with the indications and separations here,” Hyman said.

“You’re not women, you’re men, and you should be okay with that.”

Hyman is flying to Minnesota this weekend to meet with another woman who said she had trans-identifying men in an all-women’s prison. There is no way the two would have connected if it wasn’t for Hyman speaking out on the issue, and none of it would be happening if not for the events of the last 10 days.

“This experience has changed my life. It’s extended my purpose, and I am grateful to this experience as traumatic as it has been.”

Hyman is convinced that her side is going to win the fight for common sense.

“Everybody’s gonna get back to normal,” Hyman said. “Once everybody starts telling the truth, and people stop lying to these grown men. We’re lying to these men and telling them that they’re women. That’s how we got here.”

Don’t expect the woman who sings for a living and went viral for screaming at the top of her lungs in the gym to turn down the volume.

“I’m gonna be loud until all women are loud and our voices are heard.”