The journal Glamour UK has launched its 2025 Girls of the Yr concern, that includes 9 transgender girls on the quilt. Writer JK Rowling reacted sharply to the choice, saying it tells “ladies that males are higher girls than they’re.”
“I grew up in an period when mainstream girls’s magazines advised ladies they wanted to be thinner and prettier,” Rowling wrote on X (previously Twitter). “Now mainstream girls’s magazines inform ladies that males are higher girls than they’re,” she added.
The duvet, unveiled on October 29, consists of 9 transgender girls — Munroe Bergdorf, Maxine Heron, Taira, Munya, Bel Priestley, Dani St. James, Ceval Omar, Mya Mehmi and Shon Faye — who’re described as fashions, activists, writers, actors and extra.
Rowling, a long-time advocate of preserving female-only areas for these born girls, has beforehand voiced her issues on comparable points. Rowling’s submit, which included a hyperlink to the journal’s cowl, has acquired over 850,000 views as of Thursday morning.
Rapper and influencer Zuby additionally commented on her submit, calling the “trans motion… probably the most misogynistic motion in fashionable historical past.” One other X consumer described Glamour UK’s choice as “completely demeaning” and “insulting to girls,” writing, “girls usually are not a fancy dress… Glamour can F proper off.”
Oli London, a British influencer who has spoken out in opposition to the trans neighborhood after de-transitioning, has joined the criticism of Glamour UK’s newest Girls of the Yr cowl.
“Glamour journal UK options 9 Transgender males on the quilt and calls them ‘Girls of the Yr’,” London wrote on social media.
The controversy follows an analogous backlash confronted by Glamour US earlier this week after naming actress Rachel Zegler and kids’s YouTuber Ms. Rachel amongst its newest Girls of the Yr. Each have drawn consideration for his or her feedback on Israel’s conflict in Gaza.
Zegler sparked debate after posting “and at all times keep in mind, free Palestine” shortly after Disney launched the trailer for Snow White. Studies later steered tensions between her and Israeli co-star Gal Gadot over the difficulty.
Ms. Rachel — whose actual title is Rachel Griffin Accurso — has additionally spoken publicly in regards to the deaths of youngsters in Gaza and shared movies of herself praying for Palestinian youngsters.
Her activism prompted the group StopAntisemitism to name for a US Division of Justice investigation into whether or not she was being supported by Hamas.
