The transgender model and activist faced backlash after dropping her shirt at the White House and clasping her breasts moments after shaking hands with President Joe Biden on Saturday, saying she had no intention of being “vulgar”.
Rose Montoya, 27, who was on the long list of guests invited to the Pride celebration, was recorded taking off her dress and covering her exposed breasts in front of Truman’s balcony with the Pride flag hanging within the background.
“Are we topless within the White House?” the recorder said in a video posted on Montoya’s Instagram.
Before going topless to the Executive Mansion, the Idaho-born model had the chance to fulfill President and First Lady Jill Biden, each of whom gave speeches to a whole bunch of invited guests.
“It’s an honour. Transgender rights are human rights,” Montoya told Biden as they shook hands in one in all the clips.
![Rose Montoya, a transgender woman, is seen top to bottom, covering her breasts with her hands in front of the White House.](https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/Rose-7.jpg?w=682)
Montoya, who shared a combined video of the event with her 103,000 followers on Monday, even had the chance to record an accidental selfie video of the commander as an alternative of the intended photo.
The video included an excerpt from a speech by the 80-year-old president, who said that members of the LGBTQ+ community were “among the bravest and most inspiring people” he had “ever known.”
“You might be loved, you’re beautiful, you hear, you belong,” the primary lady said during her speech.
![Before removing her blouse, the activist was seen shaking Biden's hand.](https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/Rose-6.jpg?w=682)
![Biden called some members of the LGBTQ+ community he knows](https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/Rose-2.jpg?w=682)
After uproar from “conservatives” who Montoya says try to make use of her clip for instance of the transgender community “hairing” young people, video with video answerstating that being topless shouldn’t be against the law in Washington.
“It’s legal to be topless in Washington, and I fully support the nipple liberation movement,” she said. “Why is my chest now considered inappropriate or illegal after I show it off? Nevertheless, before coming out as trans, this was not the case.
“All you are doing is proving I’m a woman,” she clapped at the haters.
Montoya – who began her transformation in 2015 – says she intentionally covered her nipples to “play it protected”, “with no intention of being vulgar” and that she “just lived in joy. To live my truth and exist in my body.
![First Lady Jill Biden also briefly dated a transgender model.](https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/Rose-4.jpg?w=682)
![Montoya made a response video to call out critics who were trying to put a label on her](https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/Rose-3.jpg?w=682)
![Biden is seen mistakenly recording a video of Montoya and others that was supposed to be a photo.](https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/Rose-5.jpg?w=682)
“Pleased pride. Free the nipple,” he says, ending his answer video.
To be considered public nudity, a woman’s breast have to be exposed below the highest of the nipple without full “opaque coverage”, in line with law on obscenity within the District of Columbia.
Montoya was not the just one to face criticism of the Pride celebration.
Outstanding military veterans have accused the Biden administration of shrinking the American flag by placing the Pride banner in the middle of the display.
![The pride flag hangs between American flags from the White House balcony during a pride celebration on the South Lawn hosted by President Joe Biden, June 10, 2023.](https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/2023-06-10T215359Z_392627298_RC2IG1A69EWO_RTRMADP_3_USA-BIDEN-PRIDE.jpg?w=1024)
“No flag needs to be flown on a par with the American flag,” said Army veteran and Florida representative Cory Mills, who called the flag’s placement “disgraceful.”
“The flag of america of America shall be in the middle and at the very best point of a group when several state or locality flags or association pennants are grouped and flown from staffs,” in line with US flag code.
“You’d think the White House knows about it,” veteran Marine Chad Robichaux said in a statement to The Post. “Yeah, they only don’t care.”