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Jenna Jameson Slams Playboy's First Trans Model in Series of Transphobic Tweets

Jenna Jameson Slams Playboy's First Trans Model in Series of Transphobic Tweets

Jenna Jameson

The former adult film star wrote offensive tweets about French model Ines Rau, who is trans, appearing in Playboy.

Even as she proclaimed that she's not transphobic, Jenna Jameson, who rose to fame as an adult film actress, sent out a series of anti-trans tweets upon hearing the news that French model Ines Rau would become Playboy's first transgender playmate, according to HuffPost.

"So Playboy just announced it will be featuring its first transgender playmate...' Jameson, 43, tweeted. "I have a problem with it just like I have a problem with a transgender competing against biological women in sports." Although, Jameson failed to elaborate on her opposition to trans women competing with cisgender women.

If it weren't clear that Jameson's comments about Rau, who will be Playboy's November centerfold, were headed down a one-way path to transphobia, she then tweeted, "I think it's setting fire to an iconic brand and pandering to this ridiculous PC world we live in."

Clearly aware on some level that her tweets were offensive, Jameson also tweeted that she's not a transphobe (despite the transphobic things she actually wrote).

If it weren't damning enough that Jameson opted to speak out negatively about Playboy's decision to feature a trans woman in its pages, she then liked a series of deeply offensive transphobic tweets including one that used a homophobic slur to describe Rau as a gay man rather than as a trans woman and one that read, "Men buy Playboy to look at women in states of undress. Not a dude, pretending to be a woman. That is a freak show."

Jameson told Fox News that the magazine's decision to feature a trans model was "A ridiculous attempt by Playboy to stay relevant."

Cooper Hefner, Playboy's Chief Creative Officer and son of the late Hugh Hefner, told The New York Times, "It's the right thing to do. We're at a moment where gender roles are evolving."

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Tracy E. Gilchrist

Tracy E. Gilchrist is the VP, Executive Producer of Entertainment for the Advocate Channel. A media veteran, she writes about the intersections of LGBTQ+ equality and pop culture. Previously, she was the editor-in-chief of The Advocate and the first feminism editor for the 55-year-old brand. In 2017, she launched the company's first podcast, The Advocates. She is an experienced broadcast interviewer, panel moderator, and public speaker who has delivered her talk, "Pandora's Box to Pose: Game-changing Visibility in Film and TV," at universities throughout the country.
Tracy E. Gilchrist is the VP, Executive Producer of Entertainment for the Advocate Channel. A media veteran, she writes about the intersections of LGBTQ+ equality and pop culture. Previously, she was the editor-in-chief of The Advocate and the first feminism editor for the 55-year-old brand. In 2017, she launched the company's first podcast, The Advocates. She is an experienced broadcast interviewer, panel moderator, and public speaker who has delivered her talk, "Pandora's Box to Pose: Game-changing Visibility in Film and TV," at universities throughout the country.