Trans influencer filming in the women’s room is selfish


Trans influencer filming in the women’s room is selfish

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If you’re not perpetually online, perhaps you’ve never heard of trans influencer Lilly “Tino” Contino.


Unfortunately, if you are a waiter just trying to do your job or a woman in a Disney World restroom just trying to do your business, look out.


Since 2022, Contino’s 400,000 TikTok followers have witnessed his journey from hirsute man to linebacker dressed as a ’50s pin-up gal — all while terrorizing unsuspecting wait staff for


misgendering.


Yes, there are curls, kewpie lips, facial feminization surgery (also chronicled) and crop tops. But when Contino speaks, the influencer’s voice is lower than his regard for the hospitality


workers tortured for his content.


Contino, who claims to be a “trans girl on a mission,” has an even more disturbing and narcissistic social media project: lurking in the women’s bathrooms at Disney theme parks, snapping


mirror selfies and rating the experience depending on whether he was misgendered or complimented on his outfit.


Meanwhile, many of the photos show women in the background, sometimes with emojis over their faces.


One TikTok post starts with an image of Contino in Minnie Mouse ears and a hair bow meant for a 5-year-old girl, taking a selfie that shows three women in the background. The caption:


“Ranking every women’s bathroom at Disney World.”


The song on the post, “When You Wish Upon A Star,” is the perfect encapsulation of this delusion that a dude can simply bibbidi-bobbidi-boo into a lady.


It’s a Venn diagram of the worst the internet has to offer: infantilized Disney adults and performative trans content rolled into one.


“Got misgendered right before this pic so the vibe was off,” Contino wrote on one image. Perhaps being a man carrying a giant selfie stick in the ladies’ room killed the vibe. Just a wild


guess.


In another Disney video, Contino delivers a preamble about using women’s rooms in Florida as a trans person. Three minutes later, the influencer gives blow-by-blow commentary including


excruciatingly unnecessary detail about how he “peed standing up.”


In another photo with a woman visible in the background, Contino’s wearing Minnie Mouse ears decorated with the trans flag and flashing a peace sign. “Got complimented on my fit and there


was no line for a stall,” reads the caption.


Another says: “had a friend with me so I felt safe.” The inverted victimhood is this influencer’s entire shtick.


Contino is the one who is unsafe, you see — even while poking others, not for his security or freedom, but for content. Clicks.


Like Dylan Mulvaney, Contino’s online persona is about being trans. It’s also so trolling, so hyperbolic that, for a while, I simply assumed the idea was to paint the trans community in the


most loathsome light possible. But it seems that Contino is that awful.


There’s also an OnlyFans account — for only $8.99, Contino promises to shows “everything” — with an eggplant emoji in the bio.


More proof that this dude does not belong in a women’s bathroom.


While the demand for affirmation from complete strangers is bizarre, Contino’s need to be affirmed by other women in the loo is dangerous.


But the influencer isn’t alone in bathroom activism. There are also videos of trans activists having dance parties and sit-ins in ladies’ rooms to protest Rep. Nancy Mace’s proposed policy


that Rep. Sarah McBride, who is the first openly trans person in Congress, use the men’s room.


It’s as if they think toilet stalls are the next Greensboro lunch counters. They are not.


It’s awfully bizarre to fetishize a toilet and access to a place where women simply want privacy. We want to get in and out. We do not want some creep in Minnie ears taking photos and


posting them for the masses like it’s an act of public service.


It’s quite the opposite: a disservice to other trans people.


This is why women don’t want to simply open their spaces, no questions asked, for any Tom, Dick or Harry claiming to be Lilly, Dylan or Sally.


And why would Disney, which has loads of rules and regulations regarding inappropriate behavior and wardrobe, allow this invasion?


Contino can choose how he wants to live — posting “spicy things” on OnlyFans and hassling waiters — but that cannot include using women’s private spaces as the set for his perverted reality


show.