The trans activist who received criticism for exposing his augmented breasts at the White House during a Pride event last June has now been accused of sexual assault. The alleged victim is a biological female who identifies as a “man.”
Rose Montoya, 28, was subsequently banned from attending any future events at the White House after a video went viral showing him groping his fake breasts while topless on the South Lawn. Montoya shared the video to his own TikTok account, and it quickly gathered attention.
After a groundswell of outrage, Montoya was condemned by White House Press Secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre.
“The behavior was simply unacceptable,” Jean-Pierre said at a press briefing. “It was unfair to the hundreds of attendees who were there to celebrate their families.”
Montoya later uploaded a video to TikTok defending his actions. In the video, captioned “free the nipple,” he said, “I was simply living my joy and my truth and existing in my body.”
However, he ended up backtracking and released an apology video after other trans activists began criticizing his actions, accusing him of “embarrassing the trans community” and “setting the community back” during an important event.
“I alongside other powerful voices in the queer and trans communities were invited to be represented, seen and heard in a unique and very special way,” Montoya said. “In a quick moment of fleeting and overwhelming trans joy, I decided to do something unbecoming of a guest of the president.”
He then went on to apologize to the LGBTQ community for his actions, particularly to Black transgender people who are “disproportionately impacted by the actions of others”, and his own friends and family members.
Just one year after the backlash, Montoya has now been accused of sexual assault by his ex-girlfriend, Jesse Diamond, a female who identifies as a “transgender man” and uses the name “transmusclebear” on social media.
On June 13, Diamond posted a thread to X accusing Montoya of sexually assaulting her while she was recovering from “phallo surgeries,” the surgeries that attempts to make female genitalia resemble male genitalia.
“I attempted to end my life on more than one occasion due to how depressed I was from the trauma,” Diamond explaines in the thread. Diamond goes on to directly name Montoya as the abuser in question.
In a video posted to TikTok, Diamond provides screenshots purported to be from Montoya admitting to the sexual assault.
The email, which was sent from rosalynnemontoya@gmail.com, reads: “I’m really sorry I broke your trust and violated you.” The email author then goes on to describe how being sexually rejected made them feel “dysphoric.”
@transmusclebear TW/CW: SA, suicide @therosemontoya SA’ed me Please share this video or any of the stories in my highlight section that is dedicated to addressing this cycle of abuse. I will be posting the full confession email on my ⏰ page shortly. My other social media page attached to my bio section will contain a series of tweets that explains the situation in fewer words in this video. Please do what you can to warn our community members. @devinedeceptionofficial and I just want to warn members of the community who might be at risk of being harmed. And if she is ready at this point in time, we would like Rose to come forward and take accountability to her followers on her platforms. Because we are not the only ones she has harmed. She needs to take accountability for her actions. Full video is pinned on my IG (same username: transmusclebear) Parts 2-30 coming soon. #tran #transman #transgender #ftm ♬ original sound – transmusclebear
“I genuinely thought for a while that you were triggered by me simply having a phallus. I thought maybe you’d like me more or want to be intimate with me if I had a vagina. This caused me so much pain and dysphoria,” the email continues. “I’m sorry I forced myself on you.”
While Reduxx was unable to confirm the authenticity of the email, the email address listed in the screenshots made public by Diamond matches an email on Montoya’s personal website.
Diamond has also revealed that Montoya accused her of domestic violence in response to the accusations. She also claimed that she was not the only female who identifies as a “man” that Montoya has abused or assaulted.
“Elijah, the other known victims, and I just want the cycle of abuse to stop,” Diamond wrote on X at the end of her thread.
Like Montoya, Diamond is a well-known trans activist on social media, and has shared her experience with genital surgery where she admitted that there were complications with the attempt to create a “penis” for her.
“It is technically broken but I believe there’s a 98% chance its still functional,” Diamond shared on TikTok in a video that was later reposted by Libs Of TikTok.
Diamond explained on her TikTok that the method of phalloplasty she received was the “semi-ridged rod” which is “broken at the base.” She also described the recovery process as “hell” and stated she was bed ridden and had to learn how to walk again.
It was during this time when Diamond was particularly vulnerable post surgery that she alleges the abuse by Montoya occurred.
“I was physically incapable of walking the first 10+ times that [he] r*ped me. I couldn’t run away if I tried & I couldn’t afford to stay anywhere else,” Diamond wrote in her Thread on X.
She continued, “I am so tired of living my life in fear. I feel the need to avoid going to public events because I’m afraid that [he] will find out where I live. I deserve peace and to move on with my life. But I can’t do that without doing whatever I can to warn others about this abusive person.”