Trans person accused of exposing self in woman’s locker room was convicted of brutally beating ex-wife before taking her name

The transgender person caught up in a viral Los Angeles gym bathroom row had been convicted of assaulting their wife while living in Ohio as a man — before taking her first name as their own.

Alexis Black ran afoul of women at a gym in Beverly Hills, including singer-songwriter Tish Hyman, who accused them of exposing themself and harassing her in the locker room.

Black, formerly Grant Freeman, pleaded guilty in 2022 to savagely beating their wife Alexis Freeman, causing a compound fractured jaw among other serious injuries.

“Kyle Grant Freeman caused serious physical harm to the victim. The victim suffered a compound fractured mandible, which resulted in her needing surgery,” said court documents from Hamilton County, Ohio.

Black was sentenced to a year in prison, minus time served.

Black had been convicted of both domestic violence and drug trafficking in the past, and has faced a slew of other charges including resisting arrest, records show.

Freeman, now Alexis Black, recently spoke out after Hyman, who is an out lesbian, claimed she was recently kicked out of a former Gold’s Gym in Beverly Hills for confronting a person with male genitalia in the women’s locker room.

Footage of the shouting match quickly exploded on social media after Hyman, who boasts nearly 100,000 monthly Spotify listeners, accused the trans gym-goer of exposing their penis in the locker room and harassing women.

Black, who is currently transitioning, has since shot down the claims, insisting to TMZ that they were fully covered and denying that anything inappropriate unfolded ahead of the caught-on-camera fracas.