Glamour UK defended its newest cowl that includes 9 trans girls, which struck a nerve amongst right-wing influencers and “Harry Potter” writer JK Rowling.
The journal cowl, revealed Thursday, honors a gaggle of trans girls concerned in several fields. They’re pictured sporting “Shield the Dolls” shirts created by designer Connor Ives to lift funds for charity Trans Lifeline.
The quilt story celebrates the journal’s annual Ladies of the Yr Awards, which it says “shine a light-weight on the significance of celebrating sisterhood and solidarity throughout a very fraught 12 months for ladies’s rights.”
Along with trans girls, this 12 months’s awards additionally honored a number of cisgender girls, together with actors Rachel Zegler and Demi Moore.
The slogan “Shield the Dolls” originated in Black and Latinx Eighties ballroom and drag tradition, and is used to specific assist for trans girls. Celebrities together with actor Pedro Pascal, singer Troye Sivan and TikTok star-turned-hit-pop artist Addison Rae have worn the slogan in public.
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“As trans rights face rising menace within the UK, Glamour honours 9 of the group’s most ground-breaking voices at this 12 months’s Ladies of the Yr Awards,” the journal mentioned whereas saying the duvet. “From trend and music to charity and activism work, these trailblazers work tirelessly to empower, uplift and have fun trans voices.”
A number of right-wing activists and personalities, together with Katie Miller, the spouse of White Home homeland safety adviser Stephen Miller, took concern with the duvet.
Rowling, who has routinely expressed transphobic views and reportedly donated tens of 1000’s of kilos to efforts to exclude transgender folks from the authorized definition of “girls” within the UK, was amongst those that had been outraged.
“I grew up in an period when mainstream girls’s magazines advised women they wanted to be thinner and prettier,” Rowling wrote Thursday on X. “Now mainstream girls’s magazines inform women that males are higher girls than they’re.”
Glamour UK replied to the writer’s publish, writing, “Higher luck subsequent 12 months Jo x.”
The journal additionally launched a for much longer assertion on its web site saying workers was “unmoved” by JK Rowling’s publish on X.
“We categorically reject Rowling’s misgendering of our sensible cowl stars,” the journal wrote.
The assertion additionally included the subheading, “Keep mad, JK.”