A video is circulating online of Rose McGowan being challenged during her book tour about comments she made during Rupaul's podcast What's The Tee.
The audience member stood up and began telling McGowan that she has done nothing for the transgender community during McGowan's promotional tour of her book Brave at a Barnes & Nobles in New York City:
Trans women are dying and you said that we, as trans women, are not like regular women. We get raped more often. We go through domestic violence more often. There was a trans woman killed here a few blocks from here. I have been followed home.
McGowan, who endlessly fights to expose Hollywood moguls like Harvey Weinstein, angrily reacted to the audience member, who was trans activist named Andi Dier:
Dier made the claims after hearing McGowan speak about trans identity on Rupaul's podcast:
They assume because they felt like a woman on the inside. That's not developing as a woman. That's not growing as a woman, that's not living in this world as a woman and a lot of the stuff I hear trans complaining about, yeah, ‘Welcome to the world.
McGowan believes the trans activist was a paid plant to distract her from work and tweeted that she would not be continuing with her public appearances:
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I am canceling upcoming public appearances because I have given enough. I have given beauty, in return I was VERBALLY ASSAULTED for two full minutes @BNBuzz by an actor paid to verbally assault a woman who has been terrorized by your system. And no ONE in that room did anything
— rose mcgowan (@rosemcgowan) February 2, 2018
I would like an apology from the manager of the Union Square @BNUnionSquareNY and all security people, and the audience, who did nothing and let the paid verbal assault of an assaulted woman happen. Cool?
— rose mcgowan (@rosemcgowan) February 2, 2018
Many people took umbrage with the media for sensationalizing the attack and witness the incident as a continued problem with intersectional feminism - McGowan for being opinionated about 'trans' identity when she is not trans and for Andi for verbally attacking what was suppose to be McGowan's 'safe space'.
McGowan has been criticised in the past for comments about trans* issues and once told Caitlyn Jenner through an online post that Jenner did not understand what being a woman was all about as she came from a place of privilege: "f**king learn that we have had a VERY different experience than your life of male privilege. Woman of the year? No, not until you wake up and join the fight. Being a woman comes with a lot of baggage". The comment was deleted and she reiterated her approach to the matter on Twitter:
— rose mcgowan (@rosemcgowan) November 17, 2015
Dier, speaking to The Daily Beast, has said she was not paid to be at the event.
