Despite positive messages that they originally try to deliver on the magazine's cover, these stars' appearances on the front page of a publication eventually backfire and spark debate.
- Nov 22, 2020
AceShowbiz - Caitlyn Jenner officially bid farewell to Bruce Jenner by gracing the cover of Vanity Fair in 2015 after her very public transition. While she's clearly not the first openly female transgender in the U.S., her fame and high profile even before her transition made her coming out story have a great impact across the nation. On the day the cover was unveiled, the former Olympic gold medalist gained over a million Twitter followers in four hours, beating a record set by Barack Obama.
The important landmark, however, received mixed response from the trans community, with many members expressing displease with the praise gifted almost instantly to the celebrity for her bravery, which seemed to disregard the daily fight average trans people encounter daily. Some others decried the length of time it took the former reality TV star to cast out her past identity and use of male pronouns, while wishing she had done more with her celebrity power to help the still embattled transgender people.
