Trans influencer accused of being “inappropriate” with a child. No child was present.

A well-known trans influencer was falsely accused of “inappropriate” behavior with a child while she was live streaming from a restaurant in San Francisco recently.

“While I was streaming at a restaurant, an anonymous transphobe texted the owner to try and get me thrown out,” Lilly Contino posted to TikTok, along with a video that’s gone viral showing the hateful incident live as it happened.

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Even his dog seemed embarrassed of him.

In the clip, Amy Denebeim Dean, the owner of San Francisco’s Crown & Crumpet tea shop, can be seen handing Contino her phone to reveal a text she received from an anonymous troll trying to disrupt the popular creator’s livestream.

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While I was streaming at a restaurant, an anonymous transphobe texted the owner to try and get me thrown out.

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“Someone texted you and said that I had said something inappropriate to a child,” Contino confirms to the owner as she scans the text.

“Three times, they’ve done it.”

“Which child?” Contino asks.

“No child has been in here,” the owner replies.

“No child has been in here.”

Contino, a self-described “professional transgender person,” was at the tea shop for one of her regular restaurant live streams from San Francisco eateries.

“When I’m sitting there and just eating, it’s like you’re sharing a meal with me,” Contino told The Daily Dot. “And a lot of times, sharing a meal with someone is all it takes to understand them.”

“If you see a trans person eating, you already have something in common with them.”

That open-door policy also sets the table for unwanted trolls to join the party.

“Even if it didn’t happen, they assumed that because I’m a trans person that it is my nature to do so,” Contino says in the video. 

“It’s dumbfounding,” Dean replies.

It wasn’t the first time Contino has faced harassment during one of her live streams, or the last.

In March, Contino was confronted at San Francisco’s Cheesecake Factory by an older woman who explained loudly that she’s a TERF.

“You’re a boy right?” the woman sneered at Contino. “Don’t f**k with me. Because honestly, I hit. I hit hard.”

“I’d like to see you try,” Contino replied.

Then just days after the Crown & Crumpet trolling, Contino was approached by a waiter at another restaurant saying he had the influencer’s brother on the phone. When Contino asked the waiter to ask for the caller’s name, he hung up. 

“The reality of being a trans person in the United States right now is that we are the scapegoats for the world’s problems,” Contino said. “And it’s only getting worse and worse every day.”