Sports Illustrated faces backlash for naming transgender female pop star Kim Petras as swimsuit cover model
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Sports Illustrated on Monday received some backlash from fans after Kim Petras, a transgender female pop star, was named one of the swimsuit cover models.
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"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."
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