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Sports Illustrated will feature its first openly transgender model for the magazine's annual swimsuit issue. Valentina Sampaio was named a 2020 Rookie of the Year for the upcoming issue that hits stands on July 21, marking the first time a trans beauty is featured on the pages of the iconic publication.
"I am excited and honored to be part of the iconic Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue," she wrote on Instagram. "The team at SI has created yet another groundbreaking issue by bringing together a diverse set of multitalented, beautiful women in a creative and dignified way."
Yet another magazine folds to political correctness just like Rolling Stone did when they put the Boston Marathon Bomber on the cover.. Can we file this under the cancel culture club doings?
The world is getting turned over into a Bizzaro realm where wrong is right and right is wrong. I wonder if that Brazilian trans model had the operation or it is a clever tuck and tape job or someone is really good at working the photo shop software?
I can't imagine the number of teen boys that will be questioning themselves when they find out she is really a he?
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I remember when they had their first Black woman on the cover, and then 4 years ago when they had their first plus-sized model.
People do get upset at their choices - funny. While Miss America has faded into complete obscurity, Sports Illustrated choosing what defines feminine beauty makes headlines often. And controversially.
I think this is the first one that's making men mad. In the past, it seems men were always, "yeah, that's fine she's hot", where women were upset with the plus sized model. Because that lessened their "brand" claim that only thin women were beautiful.
Times they are a'changin.
But I do think this will end up being a marketing error in judgement. All the models in the past have been "types" of traditional female beauty, that appeal to some grouping of heterosexual men, in a soft-porn way. This is a different message altogether, that won't be taken well by the man who views himself a "Sports Illustrated" customer.
This will cost them readership. Not because anyone cares about that guy, but because people are getting sick and tired of all the political correctness......
Ditto NFL and Nascar.......
I can't imagine the number of teen boys that will be questioning themselves when they find out she is really a he?
I don't think teenagers even know what a magazine is these days. It's like a newspaper or a flip phone.
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