Glamour UK unveiled its 2025 Women of the Year issue on Wednesday and the cover features… nine men pretending to be women.
The women’s magazine chose to honor a group of ‘trans women’ in this year’s issue because, according to Glamour, “trans rights face increasing threat in the U.K.”
On Thursday’s show, Megyn was joined by Allie Beth Stuckey, host of Relatable, to discuss the stunning selection and why it is “egregious” and “disturbing.”
The Cover Story
Adorned in white t-shirts that read “Protect the Dolls,” Glamour UK put Munroe Bergdorf, Maxine Heron, Taira, Munya, Bel Priestley, Dani St. James, Ceval Omar, Mya Mehmi, and Shon Faye on the cover of the latest issue under the headlines “The Dolls” and “Women of the Year.”
Inside, the mag explained that ‘the dolls’ is “an affectionate term sometimes given to trans women that originally came from black and Latina queer communities or ‘houses’ in the Ballroom scene.”
The nine people featured were born male and identify as ‘trans women.’ Their professions are listed as models, activists, writers, actors, and more, and the accompanying article refers to them as “trailblazers work tirelessly to empower, uplift, and celebrate trans voices.”
Celebrating such “trailblazers” was necessary, according to Glamour, because “trans people – and especially trans women – are facing a committed attempt from anti-trans pressure groups and right-wing politicians to make exclusionary policy the default across British public life including toilets, changing rooms, leisure facilities, workplaces, hospital wards, and crisis support services.”
The Honorees
As Megyn recounted, the profiles of the cover stars are chock full of the leftist buzzwords you would expect. Munya, a model from London, lamented that there is “a level of privilege whiteness provides, for dark-skinned black people – including in fashion – it’s also harder for us to access the opportunities than our white counterparts.”
“So, this guy has got it all going on,” she quipped. “[He’s] black; [he’s] a man pretending to be a woman; and [he] objects to white privilege and also women privilege, which [he] wants to have but can’t.”
London-based TikToker Bel Priestley, meanwhile, was asked to name “one big thing you would really like to see change for trans women.” His answer: “I’d love the narrative to be changed about dating us, particularly for guys – it’s not a crime to fancy trans women. It’s not a negative thing to fancy trans women. It doesn’t need to be this big taboo thing. The stigma makes our lives hell.”
Not to be outdone, DJ and musician Mya Mehmi had this message for critics: “I think people just need to understand, not only are we human, most of us are badder than everyone else. Put some respect on it, bitch! I look better than you. I dress better than you. I smell better than you. Please learn that and understand that. That’s what I would like for the dolls.”
‘Very Disturbing’
While Megyn acknowledged that “no one really cares what Glamour UK thinks,” she said the cover is too “egregious” to ignore. Stuckey agreed and said the messaging is sending, well, mixed messages.
“So, a doll is a fake woman. Are they trying to be on the nose with ‘protect the dolls’? Are they a fake woman like a doll,” she asked. “I’m just not totally sure what the positive PR messaging is surrounding that. I find this very disturbing.”
Given the progress that has been made in the U.K. and other parts of Europe to rein in radical gender ideology, especially as it relates to the treatment of minors, Stuckey said Glamour should be ashamed.
“The U.K. has made some really good advances and recognizing that things like puberty blockers are dangerous for children… should not be given to adolescents,” she noted. “And yet, a media company is hoisting up this absolute delusion that a man can be born in the wrong body and can be a woman by declaration, and that we should submit to that, that women should submit to no man – except for the man who puts himself in a skirt and comes into my bathroom? No thank you.”
You can check out Megyn’s full interview with Stuckey by tuning in to episode 1,183 on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you like to listen. And don’t forget that you can catch The Megyn Kelly Show live on SiriusXM’s Triumph (channel 111) weekdays from 12pm to 2pm ET.