Kate Moss & Lea T's LOVE Mag Cover Brings Out Media's Inner Transphobe

January 19, 2011
posted by Rachel K

http://www.autostraddle.com/everyone-is-transphobic-and-stupid-73757/

We spoke a while ago about the "hot new trend" of trans models being the "it girls" of the fashion industry, and how that entire discussion is fundamentally "transphobic and also stupid." There was the hope that maybe at least the people who buy that would get bored and move on, but apparently not! The exotifying fascination with trans models, especially with Givenchy's Lea T, lives on. Specifically, it lives on in a frenzy about the new cover of Love magazine, which features Lea T doing sexy makeouts with cis supermodel Kate Moss. Are you ready for this? No, me neither.

The first thing one notices about the media discussions of the cover are the rampant and unapologetic transphobia.