Model lies about being transgender after being accused of transphobia
Carissa Pinkston, a model who posed for Savage X Fenty, is facing Internet scorn after admitting she lied about being transgender. She initially “came out” on July 22 after transphobic Facebook posts of hers surfaced online, as HuffPost reports.
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“Being transgender does NOT make you a woman,” she wrote in one, posting under the name Rissa Danielle on May 23. “It makes you simply transgender.”
On June 5, she wrote, “If [transgender women] can say they’re women, I can reclaim my virginity.”
Yikes – big yikes. Screenshots. pic.twitter.com/0avsE02t1R
— Kyana (@itsamekyana) July 23, 2019
The 20-year-old has since deleted the posts, but she was nonetheless fired by Elite Models, according to Paper.
Then, on July 22, Pinkston claimed to be transgender: “I wasn’t ready to come out about it yet but today I got fired and I’ve been receiving hate mail and death threats ever since so I’m being forced to tell the truth,” she wrote. “I’m transgender. I transitioned at a very young age and I’ve lived my life as a female ever since.”
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Five days later, she backtracked. “I panicked and I thought if I came out as trans that I could somehow make things better for myself but it appears I’ve only made things worse,” she wrote a follow-up post. “I’m truly sorry. I’m only 20 and I’m human. I make mistakes but I refuse to let them define me.”
imagine being a model who got exposed for being a raging transphobe/saying extremely transphobic shit in the past and then resorting to LYING ABOUT BEING TRANSGENDER ONLINE FOR CLOUT IN ATTEMPT TO SAVE YOUR CAREER…? i know this person irl and she is SO CISGENDER?? Y’ALL I-? pic.twitter.com/GtB55p8Cr5
— aaron philip (@aaronphilipxo) July 23, 2019
Afterward, the model told BuzzFeed News that she is “taking full responsibility” for her words and that she is “definitely not transphobic.”
“The only reason I had lied was because of the death threats,” Pinkston explained to the site. “And I was scared, so I thought they would accept me only if I said I was trans. … I got an experience of what a transgender person goes through.”
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