Former MSNBC host Joy Reid shocked listeners this week by admitting something she’s spent years attacking conservatives over: she doesn’t want biological men in women’s locker rooms either. On her podcast “Reid This Reid That,” Reid openly said that seeing male genitalia in a women’s space would “freak” her out. It was a rare moment of honesty from a media figure who usually blasts anyone who expresses those same concerns.
Reid didn’t sugarcoat her reaction. “I’m alarmed enough when I see a woman with her dangling boobies,” she said. “If I saw a penis in the ladies’ locker room, I would freak out too.” Her comments came as she discussed a viral story out of California involving a woman repeatedly encountering a transgender-identifying biological male in a Gold’s Gym locker room.
Despite years of ridiculing conservatives for demanding basic privacy protections, Reid admitted she would have gone straight to management. “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?’” she said.
Reid insisted she wasn’t attacking transgender people, but simply acknowledging reality. “I would be disturbed. I’m telling you. I would be alarmed,” she repeated. “This is nothing against trans anybody.” But her admission undercut years of MSNBC outrage directed toward women who said the exact same thing.
She went further, saying she understood the California woman’s concerns from a “safety” and “privacy” perspective. “If she’s uncomfortable, does she not have the right to be at least uncomfortable with the situation?” Reid asked. Even her co-host agreed, saying she also doesn’t want to see male genitalia in women’s spaces.
The pair then floated solutions that conservatives have been proposing for years. Reid’s co-host suggested “separate locker rooms” for transgender individuals. Reid herself floated gender-neutral facilities: “Give people the choice.”
Reid’s sudden shift stands in stark contrast to her past rhetoric. For years, she condemned anyone who voiced concerns about biological males in female locker rooms or women’s sports. Now she’s openly saying she’d react the same way — and that women deserve to have their discomfort taken seriously.
Her confession is part of a growing trend: more Democrats are quietly acknowledging that the far-left’s gender policies don’t align with basic common sense. But Reid’s admission hit harder because it came from one of the very voices who helped push the issue in the first place.