Tommy Dorfman is known for having played the character Ryan Shaver in the Netflix series 13 Reasons Why. In 2021, Dorfman came out as transgender, and now in 2023, she claims to have been misgendered by Delta employees.
As you can see in a video shared below, the 31-year-old Netflix star claims to have been misgendered while at the LaGuardia Airport in New York City. The employees claim to have misgendered Dorfman by accident, but Dorfman alleges that their use of pronouns was intentional.
Dorfman initially shared the post on TikTok before it was deleted and later surfaced on X. “When you try to advocate for yourself at @delta and are met with [SIC] even more transphobia [SIC] and threats of being arrested at LaGuardia [SIC],” Dorfman shared in the original post.
In response to the clip, it was shared again on X by conservative Collin Rugg. He had a negative response to Dorfman’s claims, and writes in a follow-up tweet that “Most of America feels like this employee.”
NEW: Delta employee fed up with the pronoun police & threatens to kick man out of LaGuardia airport who whined about being “misgendered.”
Give this man a raise!
“Wasn’t intentional. But if you want to take it personal, that’s ok.”
The person in the video, a friend of Dylan… pic.twitter.com/KfC1ojMGln
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) December 26, 2023
Dorfman opens the video with the following line:
“What about when a Delta employee misgenders you intentionally?”
The employee then makes a statement using both “she” and then “he.” Dorfman points out that they were misgendered again, to which the employee responds “OK.”
The employee then tells Dorfman it wasn’t intentional, but that she’s free to “take it that way.” The employee adds that Dorfman is “condescending” and threatens to “escort” her out of the airport.
“Would you like to continue, three days before Christmas? I really don’t mind,” the employee concludes.
Of course, with Rugg being a conservative, he seems to be sharing the video to appeal to his fellow X followers. On that note, many of them agreed with Rugg, and expressed their disappointment with Dorfman and her reactions to the employees.
The person filming appears to be a friend of Dylan Mulvaney and was an actor on the Netflix series “13 Reasons Why.”
Shocker.https://t.co/LMalShWPI8
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) December 26, 2023
These malignant narcissists think everyone must be forced to validate their mental illness or else it’s a “human rights violation.”
Good for this man. The sooner this social blackmail ends, the better.
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) December 26, 2023
This is great! The minority cannot continue to bully people into playing along with their nonsense.
— Tyffani (@tyffanilately) December 26, 2023
Literally no one cares about pronoun preferences. They do this for attention and that’s it. This guy handled it perfectly and wasn’t giving in to it. Bravo delta employee! Follow me for the right angle of the story
— Right Angle News Network (@Rightanglenews) December 26, 2023
On the flip side, they sympathized with the employees and their frustration with Dorfman. Delta has since made a response on their website regarding the allegations of Dorfman being misgendered and said they’re “looking into the matter.”