Actress Rosario Dawson has been accused of transgender assault in a new lawsuit.
A transgender handyman named Dedreck Finley who worked for Dawson filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles court that says the actress and her mother were transphobic towards him.
Finley, 55, was first called Deidre when he was hired by the Dawson family to work in Los Angeles in December 2017.
After coming out, the suit says “the family misgendered him multiple times each day, with deliberate indifference.”
The lawsuit specifically claims that Dawson, 40, “acted with deliberate indifference and did nothing to correct the situation.”
When Finley would complain about his treatment by her mother, the actress and activist would reportedly say, “You’re a grown woman.”
After the family tried to evict Finley from his Los Angeles home and he refused to go, he claims that he got into a physical fight with Dawson’s mother, Isabel Dawson. The lawsuit reads: “While beating Mr. Finley, Isabel screamed, ‘You’re not so much of a man now,’ which was a clear and denigrating reference to Mr. Finley’s gender identity.”
The actress reportedly restrained “him while he was on the ground to ensure that her mother could continue battering him.”
Dawson is currently in a relationship with Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker. The Senator recently said she would make an "incredible First Lady."
Dawson and her family have not commented on the lawsuit.
However, Dawson has posted two new photos to Instagram. One is an Ulta Beauty ad for Burt's Bees chapstick while the other is far more serious. She paid tribute to her late cousin, Vanesa Vasquez, who passed away in her twenties from natural causes related to heart disease.
In her Instagram stories, she shared the movie poster for Glimmer, a film that she will appear in as the voice of the mother.
The image was originally shared by artistic director Sofia Hurtado, who called the movie, "a universal story of loss and generational understanding as shown through the lens of an immigrant, trans, non-binary narrative."
