Following the news of actor Malik Yoba penning a message on Instagram revealing that he’s trans attracted, one transgender woman’s post about Yoba is going viral.
“Surviving Malik Yoba: We had sex, when I was just a teen,” the woman who goes by Mariah Lopez Ebony wrote via her Facebook.
“For all who applaud and solute Malik Yoba for revealing he is so called ‘Trans Attracted’, understand that either because of deeper issues he has or, because of ‘society’ pushing him and others to deep, dark places, his admission to being sexually attracted to Trans women, is bound to open a Pandora’s box for him; not because the women are Trans, But because many of the Trans women he engaged in sexual exploration and exploitation with on 14th Street, Times Square and elsewhere, were minors. Including myself.”
“I started seeing him personally, with my own two eyes, cruising around the meatpacking district and Village, large black Jeep, looking for Trans fem sex workers, he preferred black trans girls; pretty, slim girls, but would pick up a latinx if she was put together and/or looked mixed.”
The allegations against the actor have not been addressed publicly, but they come just days after he revealed to the world that he loves trans women.
But according to Mariah, “love” is not the right word to describe his actions:
Ebony went on to say that the incidents happened when she was 13 and 16, “What Malik paid me to do, as a 13 and 16 year old, wasnt love. His ignoring that I was clearly a child prostitute, wasn’t love. Paying for cheap thrills and secret orgasms; begging for unsafe, unprotected sex from a runaway Trans teen, while enjoying stardom as a successful artist and business man …. isn’t love.”
On Aug. 26, Yoba posted a video of 20-year-old Maurice Willoughby being teased for his relationship with his transgender girlfriend Faith Palmer. Willoughby killed himself on Aug. 20 because of that bullying. Palmer revealed he had also threatened to kill her, as well, but she left his home before she was harmed.
Yoba’s post, which criticized the men in the video and others who attempt to humiliate Black men over sexual orientation, also declared that he, too, is attracted to both trans and cisgender women.
It was not until a week later that media outlets began to take notice. Some social media users criticized Yoba for his admission, but many came to his defense and praised the actor. That is when Ebony made the startling claim that the “New York Undercover” actor paid her for sex work almost 20 years ago while she was a minor.