Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) — the scandal-plagued congressman now attempting to reinvent himself as a candidate for governor — was publicly embarrassed in spectacular fashion during a campaign stop in Orange County. The smackdown came courtesy of Grammy-nominated singer Tish Hyman, who confronted him over one of the most explosive issues in California politics: Democrats forcing women and girls to share locker rooms with biological men.
And Swalwell absolutely folded.
Hyman, who has become an unexpected voice for women’s safety after being expelled from a Beverly Hills Gold’s Gym for objecting to a biological male exposing himself in the women’s locker room, didn’t let Swalwell dodge the question. She demanded a clear answer on whether he supports allowing men into women’s spaces. Swalwell, as usual, tried to dance around the issue with word salads and platitudes.
“Are you against men in women’s locker rooms and sports? That’s all you need to answer,” Hyman pressed. She even confronted him about the **14 separate times** he previously dismissed concerns about transgender biological males harassing women — something that now rings especially hollow given what she recently experienced firsthand.
But Swalwell refused to give a straight answer. He weakly insisted he doesn’t want “men harassing women,” but refused to admit the obvious: biologically male individuals should not be in women’s locker rooms, period.
That’s when Hyman turned to the crowd — and the room erupted in agreement.
“Trans women are not women, and they’re r*ping women,” she said bluntly. “I don’t care if it’s the Democratic side or the Republican side — we need to be on the women’s side, people. If you wanna be the governor, you need to do something about it.”
Her frustration comes from experience. Hyman had been kicked out of her gym after confronting Alexis Black, a male-to-female transgender individual — and a convicted wife-beater — whom she says exposed male genitalia in the women’s locker room. Despite multiple complaints, gym staff punished *her*, not Black.
So when Swalwell tried to dodge responsibility, Hyman let him have it.
She blasted Democrats for hijacking the Civil Rights movement to justify dangerous gender-ideology policies that harm women — especially black women and girls. “They’re using our civil rights to push this,” she warned. “You want to be the governor, you need to do something about it, because I promise you this, I will not be the last.”
Hyman didn’t stop there. She called out the damage being done to confused and vulnerable children pushed into irreversible “gender transitions.” “Stop transforming children,” she said. “No one that young can make a decision like that. When I was 12, I would have transformed. There’s only men and women.”
Her courage contrasted sharply with Swalwell’s trademark cowardice — the same man who still hasn’t explained his relationship with a Chinese spy now can’t even say whether women deserve basic privacy.
The moment went viral for a reason: ordinary Americans — and increasingly, lifelong Democrats — are tired of politicians like Swalwell putting ideology above women’s safety.
California has become ground zero for this battle. And thanks to voices like Tish Hyman, voters may finally be waking up.
