By Reduxx | Created at 2025-03-05 18:41:02 | Updated at 2025-03-06 04:17:34
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A group of trans activists are calling for a boycott of a clothing-optional spa in San Francisco after a trans-identified male was told he would not be allowed to go nude during a female-only event.
The Archimedes Banya, a Russian bathhouse on the shores of the San Francisco Bay, advertises itself as a space to hang out “with old friends, make new ones, or have a quiet time just to refresh and energize yourself.” As part of their offerings, the spa holds sex-segregated nights where only males or only females are allowed into the clothing-optional facility. The nights cater towards those of religious persuasions that restrict intimate mixing between the sexes.
However, transgender activists are now protesting against the spa after one activist, known as Breath Mormorer, was informed that he would have to remain clothed at all times if he wanted to attend the female-only night.
“It goes against everything that I came here for,” Mormorer said during an interview with local CBS News. “I came from Alabama specifically to escape that type of prejudice and hate. And I got here and I found out this city has just as much of it,” he added.
On his TikTok account, Mormorer, who pronounces his name Momor-ray, regularly uploads videos of him protesting for various trans causes in San Francisco. He is known for wrapping himself in clingfilm in order to produce life-size mannequins of trans-identified males, which he then distributes across San Francisco as performance art intended to raise awareness for “trans visibility.”
After the initial boycott started, Archimedes Banya issued a statement claiming that they stood by the “diversity of the Bay Area,” and wanted to respect both their “commitment to inclusivity” and the needs of religious and cultural communities who require gender-segregated spaces.
As such, they announced the introduction of two different events: an Inclusive Women’s Night, which they described as “open to all individuals who identify as women,” and a Cultural and Religious Women’s Night, which they state is “designed to provide a space that aligns with the needs of women from religious or cultural backgrounds who observe practices requiring a female-only environment based on sex assigned at birth.”
But despite the accommodation, trans activists continued their protest and took to form a picket line outside of the spa. One protestor, identified to CBS as ‘Jordan,’ claimed that the idea of biological sex, especially in religions, was not as simple as people claimed.
“In a lot of pre-Christian Slavic cultures there was a lot of, gender and sexuality was much more fluid than, and it was put down by the Christians, but even without all that, there are a lot of Catholic, Orthodox Jewish and Muslim people who are trans allies if not trans themselves,” he argued. “That response is really discriminatory when you think about it because if you had a night where you excluded, say, a certain race, that would not fly and we’re just saying, trans exclusive nights won’t fly.”
Another trans protester, Dakota Rose Austin, argued it was simply more evidence of hostility to transgenderism that has risen across the United States.
“As Latinos, as trans, as queer, as African American, the fear is turned now. If you weaponize DEI and affirmative action and all these other things that were a benefit of everyone in America and you weaponize them against us, now I’m in fear,” Austin said.
This is not the first time a spa has been targeted by trans activists for refusing to allow males to be nude around women.
As Reduxx reported last month, Archimedes Banya is not the first spa to face the ire of transgender activists. King Spa in Palisades Park in New Jersey, that models itself after the Korean jimjilbang spas that require full nudity in some areas, is currently being chased for compensation by Alexandra Goebert, a trans-identified man who was forced to leave from the women’s area after a manager became aware of his trans status in 2022.
In 2023, a court in Seattle ruled that a similarly Korean-based women’s only spa in Washington state did not have the “constitutional right” to ban biological males. Haven Wilvich, a trans-identified man, had complained to the Washington State Human Rights Commission, alleging that his application to use the facilities at the spa had been rejected after staff told him that “transgender women without surgery are not welcome because it could make other customers and staff uncomfortable.”
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