By Kamal Sultan/DailyMail.com

A transgender woman who was forced to use a men’s locker room at a yoga studio in New York City is suing the company for $5million. 

Ali Miles, who also goes by Dylan Miles, was born a biological male but is in ‘the process of transitioning into [a] woman’, wears women’s clothing and is undergoing hormone therapy.

She claims to have been banned from using the women’s changing rooms and bathrooms on May 4 by management at Hot Yoga Chelsea – where classes can cost as much as $1,900 per year. 

But Miles went in anyway and it led to complaints from the other women in there, according to the lawsuit. 

It is the third gender-identity discrimination case she has filed in the city in the last 13 months, according to the New York Post.

Miles, originally from Arizona, turned up to the Manhattan studio before the 5pm class and wanted to get changed in the women’s locker room. 

But her presence was met with complaints and she was told to stop using the facilities and leave. 

‘Female patrons … complained and yelled at Miles about Miles’ presence and use of the single-sex locker room and bathroom labeled women, and they demanded Miles leave and cease using the facilities,’ the lawsuit states. 

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