00:00Senator Wainer, as the only black lesbian here, can I please ask you a question because I flew here to do that.
00:05Yeah.
00:05Okay.
00:07As a lesbian woman who was attacked in a woman's locker room at Gold's Gym this week by a self-identifying trans woman
00:15with a documented history of domestic violence, I'm deeply concerned about women's safety in female-only spaces.
00:22What would you say to women who are seeking assurance that their safety will be protected from men who, by California law, can self-ID as women in women-only spaces, sir?
00:35Please tell me.
00:36Yeah.
00:37So we want, I mean, everyone to be safe.
00:40And we also know that we have trans people, both men and women, who are men and women.
00:49And so, you know, we, so if you're trans women, or women.
00:55Senator, you've done great things with the bills you've passed with the housing.
00:58I've read a lot of your bills.
01:00And like you said, there are bills that need to be opened up.
01:03And I'm telling you now, millions of women across America are being harassed and sexually assaulted in locker rooms.
01:09I'm a lesbian black woman.
01:11I'm not transphobic.
01:12I'm not homophobic.
01:13And I do respect a lot of the things you've done.
01:15But I do see a lot of these bills that you've passed that are dangerous for women and young children.
01:20And I understand that you're trying to be on a level playing field.
01:23And I'm here to represent my community, because I hear a lot of things about my community in these bills.
01:27And I'm telling you as a woman, first and foremost, that this is dangerous.
01:31And we need your help, because you're in the office.
01:33You're going to go in the Poliski spot.
01:34I want to support you.
01:36I have millions of people behind me watching this right now.
01:39And we want to know, are you going to protect women, not trans women?
01:43Women.
01:43Women, trans women are a different thing.
01:45Women.
01:45Women.
01:46Listen, we need to protect women's safety.
01:48I was assaulted.
01:49Women are women.
01:49I was assaulted.
01:50No, they are not.
01:51They are men.
01:52I was assaulted by women.
01:53Men.
01:53Women are women.
01:54Yes.
01:55He broke his wife's jaw so bad she needed reconstructive surgery.
01:59I'm a lesbian.
02:00I'm not transphobic.
02:01And I'm black.
02:02So if there's another black woman in here who wants to tell me how they feel, please join in.
02:06But all of you are not.
02:07And I don't know who you are or what you are.
02:09But I'm a lesbian.
02:10And I'm telling you right now, men are harassing women in the locker room.
02:13Let's let him answer the question.
02:15I'm just telling you.
02:16Since I want to woo, woo, woo.
02:17No, just let's.
02:18Now I'm done.
02:19And by the way, I respect what you have done.
02:20I just want to let you know that.
02:22I know.
02:22Let's give this in without.
02:24I'm done.
02:24I'm done.
02:25I'm done.
02:25I appreciate your point of view.
02:26I'm so sorry that you were lost.
02:28Multiple times.
02:29And I appreciate you talking about it.
02:31I think we need to protect the safety of all women.
02:35Please.
02:35And obviously that's incredibly important.
02:40And I also know that trans women are also brutalized in this country.
02:45So women and cisgender women are brutalized in this country.
02:50And we have to protect the safety of all women.
02:52We have to protect women.
02:53We cannot be raped in the bathrooms by men that want to say they're women.
02:56They're not women.
02:57They're not women.
02:58I'm leaving.
02:59It's okay.
02:59But I'm not going to take it.
03:00You have to leave.
03:01I am leaving.
03:01Because you know what?
03:02You guys are not protecting women.
03:04You're doing a lot.
03:05The bills that you're passing for the law.
03:06I read a lot of them.
03:07They're great.
03:07But this thing with the trans, it's not right.
03:10Thank you very much.
03:11You're welcome.
03:13And my name is Tish Hyman.
03:18You heard me, sister?
03:20All right.
03:20Don't let them use our blackness and our civil rights as a reason to pass weird laws for children to transform.
03:26It's wrong.
03:27My sister's in jail.
03:28She can't get free tampons herself.
03:30Or she can get free transformation medication.
03:32Big Pharma is best.
03:33Tired of it.
03:34Yeah, Scott.
03:37Well, things were going so smoothly.
03:41Well, let's talk about another uncomfortable moment.
03:43When we first started talking in 2008, when Aaron Peskin challenged you for...
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