{"id":412667,"date":"2026-05-05T09:45:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T09:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/412667\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T09:45:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T09:45:10","slug":"actor-tommy-dorfman-shares-viral-instagram-post-exposing-transphobic-passenger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/412667\/","title":{"rendered":"Actor Tommy Dorfman shares viral Instagram post exposing transphobic passenger"},"content":{"rendered":"
A second photo showed the man texting another person named Samantha with the same message, but adding, \u201c2 and a half hours of sitting next to this freak!!\u201d<\/p>\n
Samantha was not impressed.<\/p>\n
\u201cJust remember many people you love are lgbtq+ and this country sucks for them right now. Be kind!\u201d Samantha replied.<\/p>\n
A response from a woman named Samantha. Photo \/ Tommy Dorfman<\/p>\n
Dorfman is best known for playing Ryan Shaver in the Netflix series 13 Reasons Why, which first aired in 2017.<\/p>\n
Dorfman captioned the photos with her own message about being trans in America.<\/p>\n
\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 wrote.<\/p>\n
The 13 Reasons Why actor used her camera to zoom in and take photos of text messages while flying. Photo \/ Tommy Dorfman<\/p>\n
Dorfman came out as transgender in 2021. <\/p>\n
\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. I am lucky to have the life I have, the ability to fly freely (for now), and even post sh*t like this.\u201d<\/p>\n
She added: \u201cAnd why post, you may wonder? Because I can and this man is an alt-right vampire AND because Samantha deserves her flowers.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dorfman\u2019s followers were quick to defend her.<\/p>\n
\u201cScared and dumb, all of \u2018em \u2018cept Sam,\u201d fellow actor Amanda Seyfried commented on the photos.<\/p>\n
Singer Ellie Goulding added: \u201cWhat a sad, deranged, troubled person. I\u2019m angry. Sending you love.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A second photo showed the man texting another person named Samantha with the same message, but adding, \u201c2…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":412668,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1443,3376,74,1559,13633,212169,2837,156,180179,29052,70,4791,60677,111,139,69,14734,15026,3117,3466,180,7364,85450,11099,212170,5143],"class_list":["post-412667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-about","tag-actor","tag-after","tag-called","tag-catching","tag-dorfman","tag-during","tag-entertainment","tag-exposing","tag-fellow","tag-flight","tag-instagram","tag-messages","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-passenger","tag-plane","tag-post","tag-sending","tag-shares","tag-text","tag-tommy","tag-transgender","tag-transphobic","tag-viral"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}