Glamour UK, a women’s fashion magazine, has chosen a group of nine men, so-called “dolls,” who identify as women, for the cover of its Women of the Year issue.
The magazine has celebrated the non-advertisement “Dolls,” a popular term transgender women use to refer to each other.
“As transgender rights face a growing threat in the UK, Glamour is paying tribute to nine of the community’s most groundbreaking voices at this year’s Women of the Year awards,” the magazine said in its cover story.
The group is pictured wearing T-shirts emblazoned with the trans activist slogan “Protect the Dolls.”
The men, who identify as women, are Conner Eves, Munro Bergdorf, Maxine Heron, Tiara, Munya, Belle Priestley, Dani St. James, Seval Omar, and Mia Mehmi.
While the selection will undoubtedly be welcomed by radical trans activists everywhere, not everyone celebrated the honors. Harry Potter creator J.K. Rowling, for example, was appalled by the magazine’s move to name men as “women of the year.”
“I grew up in an era when mainstream women’s magazines told girls they should be thinner and prettier,” she wrote. “Now mainstream women’s magazines tell girls that men are better women than they are.”
Rowling was not alone in her condemnation of the magazine’s decision to name nine men as “women of the year.”