Cross-dressing Tik Toker Kelvin Kinuthia has disclosed that he has been denied access to male restrooms on several occasions.
Because of his cross-dressing, many people believe he is a woman. During an interview with Diana Marua, he revealed the following:
“I buy clothes to shoot videos from normal shops. Why shouldn’t I? We had gone to village Market and I decided to go to the washrooms. I wanted to get into the male washrooms.”
“As I wanted to enter, he told me to enter the ladies washrooms. My friend laughed and that is when the cleaner noticed that he had messed up. I also have trouble with security check up points as most people assume that I am a lady. I am told to go the ladies line every time I queue on the male line.
One time I called a cab and the driver had to confirm that I am indeed the one.”
Kinuthia discussed his strategy for gaining fans:
“The first video I shot I had 3k followers but after I shared it I got 3K more followers hence rose to 6K followers. My mum is the one who bought me my first Iphone so that I could shoot content.”
He claims he was approached by a make-up artist who paid him for the task the first time he applied cosmetics.
Kinuthia claims that her extended family first opposed what he was doing.
“I get calls from my aunties saying that I am doing a good job. But initially they were against what I was doing.”
Despite all of these difficulties, Kinuthia claims he enjoys cross-dressing and generating videos.
He claims, however, that he only uses makeup at events or when filming content, and that on regular days he is just Kinuthia.
