A man who began using the women’s locker room at a Missouri gym after changing his legal gender marker has prompted outcry after a patron lodged a formal complaint against him with local police. Eris Discordia Montano, who posts photos of himself with weapons to his social media, was first reported to law enforcement on July 29 after being spotted in the female facilities of the Ellisville Life Time Fitness.
Following the first complaint, several more women came forward to express their concerns about Montano, prompting Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey to issue a statement announcing an investigation into the fitness center on August 2. According to a letter from the Attorney General’s office sent to the CEO of Life Time Fitness, Bahram Akradi, women who had complained about Montano’s presence in the women’s locker room were chastised and told to refer to him with the “correct” feminine pronouns.
“It has come to my attention that Life Time Fitness has proudly adopted a policy that permits biological men to use locker rooms designated specifically for women and young girls,” reads the Attorney General’s letter. “Even more concerning is the fact that instead of taking the safety concerns from your gym members seriously, you rudely correct them and insist they call this biological male by the ‘correct pronouns.’ While it might be considered fashionable in certain corporate boardrooms to pretend that biology is irrelevant, the American heartland still lives in reality.”
Bailey continues by notifying Life Time Fitness of a formal inquiry.
“Missourians recognize that allowing adult men to openly invade and disrobe in spaces set aside for women and young girls is indefensible and places political correctness above public safety. That is why I am putting you on notice that you are under investigation.”
The official statement issued by the Attorney General’s office informed Missouri residents that Bailey had “immediately put the gym on notice that they face both potential criminal and civil liability for putting women and girls in harm’s way,” and the process of issuing subpoenas had begun.
Montano, who until April this year was known as Oren Montano and identifies as a “trans-fem, polyamorous goddess of strife and discord,” has been actively posting about the ordeal on social media over the past week, beginning with remarks made on X immediately after using the women’s locker room wherein he referred to women who appeared to disapprove of his presence as “Karens,” a derogatory term typically used against white women.
“Having now gotten ready in the ladies locker room at the gym for the first time, am happy to report that unlike men’s locker rooms, where every guy over 40 is waving his penis around to prove to others that he has one, older women are as clothed as everyone else.”
“With the exception of a couple of visibly obvious Karens who gave me a look and used the furthest sink from me, literally everyone else was hyper welcoming,” he added.
As news of Montano’s use of the female facilities began to spread, Missouri State Representative Justin Sparks uploaded a video to Facebook commenting on the situation.
“I’m trying to calm down. I was really upset today by something that happened,” Sparks said. “It became apparent to my office that a grown man was going to Life Time Fitness and was using the women’s locker room to get changed and exposed himself to people in the female locker room.”
Sparks went on to explain that as a former police officer, he had “dealt with weirdos, men who like to show their genitals to women,” otherwise known as public exposure. “It was against the law then, and it’s against the law now… For a grown man to hide under the guise of transgenderism in order to reveal his genitals to women and children is abhorrent,” Sparks said. He also praised the Ellisville police department for responding “swiftly” and “professionally.”
Montano shared Sparks’ video with a comment that seemed to be a veiled threat of litigation, saying that he was “itchy” to find out “what the maximum award so far in the US has been for a public defamation lawsuit.”
In an August 4 Facebook post, Montano accused his critics of having sexual motivations themselves, and stated, “People who think others would find nudity in locker rooms tantalizing are literally telling on themselves. None of the rest of us get even slightly excited by that stuff.”
A woman who Reduxx has chosen not to name replied: “I think it’s more about the children being in the locker rooms that people are not okay with… This isn’t an adult locker room it’s for everyone including children and you’re pushing yourself in there to prove point is saying that no one else’s feelings matter except your own which is very narcissistic… I say this is all bullshit and that you’re doing this for attention.”
In response, Montano accused the woman of being a sexual predator, saying, “Beginning to wonder how many children you’ve exposed yourself to given that you’re speaking like someone who does not use the private changing rooms and the club’s modesty in the locker rooms policy? Exposing yourself to other people daughters is still exposure if they don’t want it.”
Last Saturday, August 3, a crowd of protesters demonstrated outside of the Ellisville Life Time Fitness demanding that men be denied permission to self-identify into the women’s changing facilities and showers. On X, Montano described the protest as a “mob of hateful people” whose intentions were to “show how much they hate me for existing as a trans woman”. Trans activists were also present and attempted to drown out speakers with chants of “bigotry has got to go”.
However, under threat of legal action being filed against the company by the state, and facing mounting public pressure, Life Time Fitness terminated Montano’s gym membership, and, on August 5 Montano claimed that the police escorted him out of the building.
Lifetime Fitness just decided to solve their trans girl in the locker room problem by misreading my remarks today as threats of violence rather than threats of law suits and terminating my membership, and having the police walk me out
— Eris (Discordia, הרס, Sylvie, Lilith, blahblah, 🙄 (@oren_ai) August 5, 2024
But despite his repeated claims of victimhood and pattern of accusing his critics of sexual deviancy, Montano had apparently been undergoing the process of altering his identification with the thought of using a women’s locker room in mind.
In March, just a month before his legal name change and four months before he altered his sex marker on his ID, Montano remarked on X, “Transphobes will demand that I come into the men’s locker room and show underage boys my boobs and then have the audacity to call anyone but themselves a pedophile.”
In the days following the controversy, Montano has also made repeated posts to social media about his sexual behavior. On August 7, a day after his gym membership was terminated, Montano was especially prolific and made a series of unhinged posts on Facebook.
“One thing most people don’t get is that once a person can have girly orgasms, no one I know of would opt for a penile orgasm,” Montano wrote. “Why take a sneeze over seeing the face of god for multiple minutes?”
The same day, Montano again lashed out at critics by boasting of his sexual encounters. “I’ve had weekends that contained more sex than these yahoos’ entire lifetimes, yet they still see themselves as alpha something or other,” he wrote. “Is that only true when their wife unlocks their cock cage?”
Another post from Wednesday alleged that Rep. Sparks was running cover for pedophiles: “With idiots like Justin Sparks crying wolf accusing innocents like myself of heinous crimes against children, is he going to make us miss the real predators? Intentional or not, is he covering for them with noise?”
Yet another status update contained an image of a vibrator designed for women, which Montano had shared to the social media platform X with the caption, “OG MILF vibe, better than the corded ones… I once saw a friend almost get electrocuted when the girl they were using it on splooshed.”
Disturbingly, before claiming a transgender status, Montano had also been posting online about BDSM, kink, ‘polyamory‘, and “bespoke porn” generated using artificial intelligence.
“You understand that Open Source Porn is 100% computer generated and you could download and run the models right now,” Montano, a programmer, posted to X last June.
The same day, he added, “Womyn don’t need men. Period. Men watching porn indefinitely in a locked room drugged out of their minds is a great way for them to no longer trouble womyn.”
Prior to claiming to be transgender, Montano had been creating AI-generated music containing political messaging and gender identity theory, sung in a woman’s voice.
He also had unsuccessfully attempted to become a cult leader and created a Facebook page and website for his belief system which he called The Church of Chaos.
He also designed a website for an AI company, one of multiple such endeavors, which he named Eldritch, Inc., and invited the unpaid participation of “cultists,” who he described as “people who have been touched by the company’s message and have chosen to spread it.”
“The benefits of being a cultist will be access to our technology before the general public, and the ability to help shape the future of our technology,” he explains on the site. Montano appears to believe that technology will save humanity from imminent destruction, but that only a few will be chosen while the majority of the population is abandoned. He has written extensively about his belief system online in blog posts where he seems convinced that emotions can be mapped out in code.
Montano’s conflict with Life Time Fitness was sympathetically reported by the Associated Press last week in an article that referred to him as a “woman.”
