A YouTube star has blasted her Uber driver on Twitter after he spouted transphobic slurs.

NeonFiona has almost 20,000 YouTube subscribers where she discusses LGBT+ issues, social justice and politics in a light-hearted way.

In Seattle visiting friends, she decided to catch an Uber on Wednesday (28 February). She was off to get lunch with her trans girlfriend and another friend.

‘We were heading to grab some lunch and our Uber driver was just fifty shades of awful,’ she told Gay Star News.

‘It started with just a lot of conversation (dude, chill, we’re all on our phones).

‘Things got really bad when the radio station he had chosen stopped playing music… and began talking about trans people and race issues, with a LOT of damaging language such as “a man can live his life for fifty years as a man then suddenly say he’s a woman?! That’s crazy!”.’

he didn’t even know we had A Trans™ in the car, it was just kindly prompted by the tragically racist and transphobic radio station he had on — fiona 💞 (@neonfiona) February 28, 2018

It got even worse when the hosts argued doing ‘blackface’ was okay because “men can pretend to be women”.

‘The driver just kept trying to bring us into a conversation about it like “wow, yeah y’all agree right”. We were all just on our phones like “get us out of here”,’ NeonFiona said.

‘My girlfriend (who is trans) was obviously crazy uncomfortable, although it was my cis friend and I kicking up the biggest fuss because unfortunately my girlfriend is just used to hearing transphobic trash.’

Uber creeping

It got worse when the driver started following the trio after he dropped them off. According to NeonFiona, continued to charge them for the ride, by not ending the trip.

he kept following us after we got out and turns out he’s still pretending we’re in the car and charging us is this a joke — fiona 💞 (@neonfiona) February 28, 2018

The group immediately reported him to Uber who got back to them quickly.

‘Thankfully Uber were very quick to respond to our complaints and we have been refunded for the trip, and my friend’s account will not be matched with that driver again,’ NeonFiona said.

‘But it’s just wild that anybody would even consider having something like that playing during a ride. Just chuck on some Top 40 hits.’

Gay Star News has reached out to Uber for comment.