A trans-woman has recorded a video at Disneyland using Minnie Mouse cake pops and chocolate covered marshmallows to explain how her penis will soon be surgically transformed into a vagina.
The video shared by @lillytino_, who has 85,000 followers has so far received more than 5500 likes.
In it, Lilly Contino, from Atlanta, Georgia, explains how the procedure will take place, while avoiding the use of any words that would reference genitalia.
Contino recorded the video while on a trip to the theme park with her mother and was not invited there by Disney.
‘I’m about to get banned from Disney’, she begins, before continuing to explain how her surgery has not gone as planned.
Lily Contino’s video at Disneyland, using Minnie Mouse cake pops, sees her discussing her upcoming gender-affirming surgery without using explicit terms
Contino used food metaphors to maintain discretion, ensuring that nearby children wouldn’t necessarily understand the conversation’s content should they have overheard
‘Last summer, I was about to get my cake pops removed’, she says, while holding a pair of Minnie Mouse chocolate covered cake pops to act as testicles.
‘The plan until recently was to convert my marshmallow wand into a marshmallow tunnel’, she explains while holding up another sugary treat to act as a penis and vagina.
‘Unfortunately, a few weeks ago, I noticed some hair regrowth on my marshmallow wand. That’s bad that’s bad because the outside of the wand is what becomes the inside of the tunnel so you don’t want hair growing there or else it’s very uncomfortable,’ she explains.
‘So I talked to my surgeon and he said that it would be best to postpone the procedure until after hair removal is complete’, Contino, 31, continues while wearing Minnie Mouse plastic ears and dressed in a pink T-shirt with full of Pride rainbows on the Disney characters.
‘This is obviously disappointing because I was really excited to have a marshmallow tunnel sooner’, she says.
‘That being said it is still happening, we’re just not sure when it’s happening. Hair removal is a fickle thing and it’s really hard to predict when it will finish but my hair removal technician thinks it will be before the end of the year.
Contino, right, recorded the video while on a trip to the theme park with her mother, seen left, and was not invited there by Disney
Contino used a ‘marshmallow wand’ to describe how her penis would be converted into a vagina
‘So fingers crossed!’, she continues, before taking a bite of the chocolate covered marshmallow treat and offering it to her mother, who is sitting at the same table and listening to her daughter’s surgical explanation.
The video drew a host of responses with many people outraged that Contino would pick possibly the most child friendly venue on the planet to discuss the most personal of procedures.
The Instagram video was bombarded with people criticizing her choices to share her personal news at the Disney theme park.
‘This isn’t the appropriate place to record this update’, wrote emma__esthetician.
‘This convo is in inappropriate at Disneyland and demonstrates that you are not in your right mind. Do better!’ added laurel.archambault.
The Instagram video was bombarded with people criticizing her choices
‘Even she said “we’re gonna get kicked out”. Obviously she too felt it was inappropriate’, added OohlookitsLaura
‘I dunno if it’s just me but you seem to like pushing your luck a lot. It’s like you’re trying to antagonize the bigots but also giving them the ammo they need to justify their cruel decisions,’ said shaunna_171717.
‘It’s disgusting you are using kid treats at Disney land to describe male parts.. we get ur proud of who u are and nothing to hide but there is a time and place and boundaries. And they were crossed. Like why was this necessary…’, wondered trinitilynnx0.
Nonetheless, there was also praise for the fact that she had chosen to disguise the intricate and graphic details using food terms.
There was also praise for the fact that she had chosen to disguise the graphic details using food terms
‘To the people complaining about the location of this conversation, she’s literally using food terms so any child nearby will literally have no idea what she’s talking about. Chill out,’ wrote Sleepy Mama.
Several commentators were pleased that although the detail was graphic, anybody, listening or overhearing the conversation would likely not have known exactly what was being discussed.
‘If a kid hear that, she is talking about candies… some people can be soooo malicious…,’ added sabrina.machado.102.
‘Those complaining about her discussing it at Disney grow up. I’ve heard far worse conversations at Disney without the decency of food terms being used and besides that I’m sure she didn’t sit right next to a child and start talking like this,’ stated pinellaspointofnoreturn.
Contino, 31, has featured previously when she secretly recorded restaurant staff repeatedly referring to her as ‘sir’ and again posted it to social media.
In an October 2023 video, she accused restaurant servers of misgendering her but some users criticized her for an ‘egocentric power trip’ directed at innocent staff
The trans woman can be seen wearing bright red lipstick, earrings, necklaces, and crop tops
Contino has featured previously when she secretly recorded restaurant staff repeatedly referring to her as ‘sir’ and again posted it to social media.
In the video she accused the restaurant servers of misgendering her, but some users also criticized her for an ‘egocentric power trip’ directed at innocent staff.
When restaurant staff said ‘thank you sir’ or ‘yes sir,’ she could be heard correcting them: ‘I use she/her pronouns. I’m not sir. I specifically asked not to be called sir.’
‘It’s always like a knife in the heart. It always hurts,’ she expressed the emotional impact of being misgendered in front of the camera.
‘I don’t need to be called ma’am, I just need to not be called sir,’ she can be heard saying in the clip from October 2023.