{"id":89321,"date":"2026-05-02T23:45:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T23:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/tommy-dorfman-slams-plane-passenger-for-trans-comments\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T23:45:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T23:45:12","slug":"tommy-dorfman-slams-plane-passenger-for-trans-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/tommy-dorfman-slams-plane-passenger-for-trans-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"Tommy Dorfman Slams Plane Passenger for Trans Comments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"p1\">Actress <b>Tommy Dorfman <\/b>isn\u2019t afraid to call out people who have a problem with her transgender identity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cObjectively, I know I\u2019m not \u2018passing\u2019 and I\u2019m \u2018bricky\u2019 and \u2018clocky\u2019 but passing hasn\u2019t been the point for me nor should it be for any trans person,\u201d Dorfman, 33, wrote via <span class=\"s1\">Instagram<\/span> on Friday, May 1. \u201cWe are all allowed to evolve in any way that feels true and that evolution can expand and contract. It\u2019s always been about alignment and autonomy for my own comfort, not the comfort of others or the expectations of society.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Dorfman claimed that she was sitting next to a man on a recent flight, who allegedly texted a group chat about her.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cI am in the first aisle of first class. Guess what is sitting next to me? A f***ing transsexual in the midst of going from a man to a woman,\u201d the alleged text read, per a screenshot shared via Dorfman\u2019s account. \u201cJust my luck. I was hoping for a hot babe.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"link-related article link-related__with-thumb\">\n<figure class=\"article__figure\">\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:56.25%;\" class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Tommy-Dorfman-Accuses-Delta-Staffer-of-Misgendering-Her.jpg?crop=0px%2C25px%2C1990px%2C1125px&amp;resize=400%2C225&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all\" srcset=\"\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 400px, (max-width: 770px) calc(100vw - 6em), 200px\" alt=\"Tommy Dorfman Accuses Delta Staffer of Misgendering Her\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" data-fallback-img=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Tommy-Dorfman-Accuses-Delta-Staffer-of-Misgendering-Her.jpg?quality=86&amp;strip=all\"\/><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<div class=\"article__content\">\n<h3 class=\"article__title\">\n<p>    <span class=\"related-badge\">Related: <\/span><span class=\"related-title\">Tommy Dorfman Accuses Delta Staffer of Misgendering Her \u2018Multiple Times\u2019<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\tGotham\/FilmMagic Tommy Dorfman is accusing a Delta Airlines employee of intentionally misgendering her at New York City\u2019s LaGuardia Airport. \u201cWhen you try to advocate for yourself at @delta and are met with even more transphobia and threats of being arrested at LaGuardia,\u201d Dorfman, 31, captioned a since-deleted TikTok video initially posted on Saturday, December 23. [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\">The <i>13 Reasons Why <\/i>actress was admittedly offended by the individual\u2019s messages.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cThe audacity of this man so blatantly blasting off texts about me (sparing you the deeply misogynistic and revolting comments on our flight attendants in contrast to my freak) only reaffirms the choices I\u2019ve made for myself to feel safe and comfortable in my body and spirit,\u201d she stated. \u201cThis does come at the cost of safety and comfort in the world, especially in America, and that\u2019s not without consequence internally and externally.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Dorfman added, \u201cI am lucky to have the life I have, the ability to fly freely (for now), and even post s*** like this, and why post, you may wonder? Because I can and this man is an alt-right vampire.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Dorfman publicly came out as transgender in 2021.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cIt\u2019s funny to think about coming out, because I haven\u2019t gone anywhere. I view today as a reintroduction to me as a woman, having made a transition medically,\u201d she told <span class=\"s1\"><i>TIME<\/i><\/span><i> <\/i>in July 2021 of her identity. \u201cComing out is always viewed as this grand reveal, but I was never not out. Today is about clarity: I am a trans woman. My pronouns are she\/her. My name is Tommy.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"news-block\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-form  \">\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/themes\/us-weekly\/assets\/img\/newsletter-bg-narrow.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"newsletter-form__background background-narrow\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/themes\/us-weekly\/assets\/img\/newsletter-bg-wide.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"newsletter-form__background background-wide\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"newsletter-signup__success\" aria-live=\"polite\">\n<h3>Thank You!<\/h3>\n<p>You have successfully subscribed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\">She continued, \u201cI\u2019ve been living in this other version of coming out where I don\u2019t feel safe enough to talk about it, so I just do it. But I recognize that transitioning is beautiful. Why not let the world see what that looks like?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Dorfman has since taken her experience to the big screen, directing the 2025 film <i>I Wish You All the Best <\/i>about a nonbinary teen\u2019s journey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cWhen I grew up I didn\u2019t have social media to even build trans community, and we have so much access to that in the real world, but I still hadn\u2019t really seen a nonbinary character in a film in cinema centered at the heart of the story in a story like this,\u201d Dorfman<span class=\"s1\"> exclusively told <i>Us Weekly <\/i><\/span>in October 2025. \u201cMy hope is that you can do less work trying to compartmentalize yourself to relate to cis characters and you can find some ease watching a movie like this with Ben\u2019s story and synergy and you can just really enjoy the ride.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async defer src=\"https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actress Tommy Dorfman isn\u2019t afraid to call out people who have a problem with her transgender identity. \u201cObjectively, I know I\u2019m not \u2018passing\u2019 and I\u2019m \u2018bricky\u2019 and \u2018clocky\u2019 but passing hasn\u2019t been the point for me nor should it be for any trans person,\u201d Dorfman, 33, wrote via Instagram on Friday, May 1. \u201cWe are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":89322,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_daextam_enable_autolinks":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrity-trends-and-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Tommy-Dorfman-GettyImages-2271525973.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}