Sports Illustrated faces backlash for naming transgender female pop star Kim Petras as swimsuit cover model

foxnews.com ^ | May 16, 2023 | Ryan Gaydos |

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Sports Illustrated came under fire on Monday for using Kim Petras, a transgender female pop star, as one of its cover models for the Swimsuit Edition.

It was Petras’ first time on the cover of the Swimsuit Edition. Petras joined Martha Stewart, Megan Fox and Brooks Nader as the other cover models for this year’s magazine.

"There is no theme [to this year’s issue]—rather, there is a vision, a sentiment, a hope that women can live in a world where they feel no limitations, internally or externally," SI Swimsuit Editor-in-Chief MJ Day said. "But the absence of a theme is not to say that [these women] don’t share certain common traits. They’re constantly evolving."

Day said of Petras, "The Grammy-winning pop star, a beacon of inspiration for the LGBTQ+ community, has blazed her own path to superstardom, but it has been anything but a straight line."

However, not everyone was pleased with SI deciding to use Petras as one of its models.

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Day, who has been with the brand since 1999 has led the charge in evolving the concept to reflect the times."

She may have been with the brand since 1999, but she's learned nothing, The magazine no longer caters to its subscribers.

[mfish13]

Rubbish.

[Schatze]

OMG! Sadly, these people actually seem to think they look good.

[crusty old prospector]

I liked the burqinis.

[doorgunner69]

Martha Stewart???

Good thing Helen Thomas is gone....

[No name given]

Is MJ even a woman?!

[lightman]

When the SISI would come out in mid-February it would warm the cockles of the heart...

...now it makes one say “MAYDAY”.

[Nifster]

Insanity. As a female who worked in a male job I am tired of these mentally ill twits thinking they can claim whatever they want makes it so. Shoot the idiot now. Put it out of our misery

[FreedomPoster]

AKA a groomer clown in womanface.

[pangaea6]

Bud Light “We really blew up our brand”

Sports Illustrated “Hold my beer”

[gibsonguy]

“female pop start”

FNC all in for the big lie of our time maybe bigger and more destructive than the Climate BS

[where's_the_Outrage?]

Sports Illustrated faces backlash for naming transgender female pop star Kim Petras as swimsuit cover model

Ya think?!!! Years ago I remember waiting for the SI Swimsuit issue to come out, then they added plus sized models and the mystique was gone. The SI Swimsuit was no longer special. Now with a non female, I don't even care to see it.

[The Louiswu]

I have an opinion that this rush to normalize transgenderism is just another avenue to deny the existence of God and another way to seek to destroy God in the mind of weak willed people.

First, Gay's said "God made me this way and God does not make mistakes..." but now it seems that transgenders feel that God DID make a mistake by making them the wrong sex/gender and they have to use modern science to correct what God made wrong, so I suspect that the next line of thought will be, there can't be a God if that God makes mistakes...

The push to remove God in society, indeed making the very mention of God a crime is ongoing and one we need to keep fighting.

[TigersEye]

Next year ...

[arthurus]

You can call him “transgender” but calling him female is a claim that no words have any meaning and humans are unable to communicate except by gesture and grunt.

[gathersnomoss]

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ENOUGH ALREADY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[aquila48]

I remember when most sports fans used to be conservatives.

[LouAvul]

We are awash with Satan in control of Western Civilization. We expelled Christ and created a vacuum. We’re not going to like where it leads.

[Tom Tetroxide]

All you have to do is just walk away from SI by not visiting their website, buying their magazine, buying products from their advertisers, or buying any of their merch. Completely ignore them.

[joshua c]

dylan wasnt available?