I'd like to say I'm surprised, but I'm not surprised at all, and you won't be either. The transgender individual who tried to accuse a Delta Airlines employee of "misgendering" him in a now-viral video has been identified as trans activist and "influencer" Tommy Dorfman. The absurdity doesn't stop there either.

As RedState reported, the previously unidentified man confronted a Delta Airlines gate agent, claiming he had been purposely "misgendered" multiple times. After a brief back and forth between the two, the gate agent threatened to have him escorted out of the building with a "make my day" style threat about it being three days before Christmas. Dorfman quickly backed down, realizing he would end up not getting on a flight if he continued his snarky crusade. 

Here's the original video as well as a picture of Dorfman. 

The tiktoker who bullied an airline employee for “misgendering” is radical trans activist Tommy Dorfman. He recently had his friend Dylan Mulvaney on his podcast. pic.twitter.com/lpxHjslKU2

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) December 27, 2023

You read that correctly. This trans activist has a podcast and recently hosted Dylan Mulvaney, another trans influencer most infamous for helping destroy Bud Light as a brand with his disturbing "girlhood" antics. Are you starting to understand how this is all one big grift yet? 

Dorfman is also an actor who once appeared in a Netflix film. In a post on Instagram, he accused the Delta employees of "transphobia," describing their "misgendering" as a "human rights violation."

"When you try to advocate for yourself at @delta and are met woth [SIC] even more transpbobia [SIC] and threats of being arrested at LaGuardia [SIC]," Dorfman said in the post, which included the video of part of the incident. "Tristan, the employee, said he was fine with me posting this. didn't realize it was condescending to flag a human rights violation after another employee misgendered me incessantly.

Of note is that Dorfman was not actually "misgendered." Further, he is a self-identified transgender individual who looks and sounds like a man while also retaining the male name Tommy. It is unworkable to expect employees of an airline, who deal with thousands of customers a day, to magically know what "pronouns" a male-presenting transgender person prefers. It should not be up to normal people in polite society to have to affirm the irrational demands of someone who is just looking for attention and clout. 

It's going to be very interesting to see how Delta Airlines responds to this. Given the company's culture, you'd expect the employees to be disciplined, though those in the airline industry do enjoy broad protections in dealing with customers, given the stakes they are dealing with. I would highly advise Delta Airlines not to take action here. Doing so will only invite a much larger backlash than whatever Dorfman has produced with his limited influence. People are watching, and they want to do business with companies that respect the sanity and the basic dignity of their employees.