Ousted MSNBC Host Admits She’d ‘Freak Out’ If She Saw A Naked Man In The Women’s Locker Room

Ousted MSNBC host Joy Reid admitted that she would probably “freak out” if she saw a naked man while she was changing her clothes in a women’s locker room.

Reid was discussing the issue on Sunday’s episode of her “Reid This Reid That” podcast, and she referenced a recent incident that took place in California. Singer Tish Hyman went viral after she confronted a man in the women’s locker room at a Los Angeles gym — and she was kicked out because the man in question identified as transgender.

“I would be disturbed. I would be alarmed. I’m alarmed enough when I see a woman with her dangling boobies,” Reid was careful to qualify her statement. “If I saw a penis in the ladies’ locker room, I would freak out, too.”

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“What it’s saying is if I turn around and I see a pee pee, a penis in front of me inside of the room, I would probably go to management and say, ‘Wait a minute. Why is there somebody — a naked man — in this room?’” Reid said. “Because just the world we live in, just from a safety standpoint and just from a privacy standpoint … I can see why she would have gone and reported to management.”

“Because if she’s uncomfortable, does she not have the right to be at least uncomfortable with the situation?” Reid asked.

Former collegiate swimmer Riley Gaines — who was forced at the 2022 NCAA championships to not only compete against a biological male but to change in the same locker rooms — was not terribly impressed with Reid’s sudden conversion.

“Ah. Joy Reid says she doesn’t want to see a penis in the women’s locker room,” she posted. “She’s going to pretend she’s believed this all along, never addressing the years she spent attacking and smearing women who said this exact thing.”

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Ah. Joy Reid says she doesn’t want to see a penis in the women’s locker room.

She’s going to pretend she’s believed this all along, never addressing the years she spent attacking and smearing women who said this exact thing. pic.twitter.com/sNLz2DrvU7

— Riley Gaines (@Riley_Gaines_) November 19, 2025

Reid sang a very different tune in 2016, when she used the phrase “bathroom panic” to describe the people who were freaking out about trans-identifying individuals using bathrooms that corresponded to their adopted gender rather than their biological sex.

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In 2016, Joy Reid repeatedly mocked anyone worried about biological males in women’s spaces:

“The sort of apocalyptic language… ‘bathroom panic’… which is the term I’ve coined for it as well”

“Should a transgender man with a mustache and beard be forced to walk into the… https://t.co/7xPRxuS5px pic.twitter.com/nrdBFCNzg8

— Media Lies (@MediasLies) November 19, 2025