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model pretends to be trans

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Bezalelle · 31/07/2019 14:54

Did anyone see this?

Goes to show how far people will go to deflect accusations of transphobia:

"After being dropped by her agency for transphobic comments, model Carissa Pinkston — who has appeared in Savage x FENTY ads — pretended she was a trans woman herself so as to avoid being called out for her transphobia.

The model wrote in multiple since-deleted Facebook posts from May, under the name Rissa Danielle, that trans women were not women. Social media users who were able to find the receipts and have been witness to Pinkston's transphobia have also said that on Instagram Live videos, she went as far as likening trans women to pedophiles. And on Monday, after being called out and getting fired, she took to Instagram Live, crying and seen to be saying something, but without audio as the video was muted. After the Live, she also posted a “coming out" note, trying to repair the damage by claiming that she was trans herself."

www.papermag.com/carissa-pinkston-trans-lie-2639425349.html

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Bezalelle · 31/07/2019 15:59

Oh - maybe I missed your sarcasm there Blush

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Bezalelle · 31/07/2019 15:59

Best for this thread to be deleted.

Why, @nauticant? It's a thing that's happened and been reported on. Why can't we discuss it?

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Bezalelle · 31/07/2019 15:58

Why would someone claim to be trans when they aren’t?

To try and escape accusations of transphobia from rabid TRAs. This girl made perfectly valid and reasonable statements on Twitter that transwomen are not women. She was rounded on, predictably - death threats, etc. She was sacked from her job. So she pretended she had been born male and transitioned young.

Such a shitshow.

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PancakeAndKeith · 31/07/2019 15:41

Why would someone claim to be trans when they aren’t?

nauticant · 31/07/2019 15:31

As we've been told countless times, no one would ever claim to be trans simply for their own benefit. The process of transition is so incredibly arduous that the idea of someone claiming a transition flies in the face of common sense and reality.

Therefore, although people believe they've seen a claim of ID-ing as trans for personal benefit, it just cannot have happened.

Best for this thread to be deleted.

Wishihad · 31/07/2019 15:12

Why can't she identify as trans?

ArcheryAnnie · 31/07/2019 15:10

I don't see how any TRA can say that anyone claiming trans status is lying. Either self-ID is sacrosanct or it isn't. Either trans people should always, always be believed, or they shouldn't. Either sex is a "spectrum" or it isn't.

I think it's all utter bollocks, but to a true believer in gender identity, if this person wishes to state that they are trans, surely that's enough for them to be accepted as trans? And since trans encompassed non-binary (which I also think is bollocks, since we are all nonbinary) then not ever having had meat and two veg is surely irrelevant to someone claiming transwoman status?

If nothing else, it shows the whole caboodle up for the misogynistic shitshow that it is.

EweSurname · 31/07/2019 15:07

She might be circumgender in which case all those will cis-trans privilege will have to acknowledge that she is more oppressed than them

placemats · 31/07/2019 15:05

Who gets to say whether someone is trans or not?