<p>A man presenting himself as a woman will reportedly be modeling for a brand that markets itself exclusively to women.</p>
<p>According to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/victorias-secret-first-transgender-model">Fox News</a>, lingerie empire Victoria&#8217;s Secret has hired its first transgender model — Valentina Sampaio of Brazil.</p>
<p>&#8220;<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/entertainment/events/victoria-secret">Victoria&#8217;s Secret</a> has reportedly hired its first-ever transgender model — less than a year after the <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/style-and-beauty">lingerie company</a> came under fire after an executive made remarks about transgender people walking in its annual fashion show,&#8221; reports the outlet.</p>
<p>Speculation as to Sampaio&#8217;s inclusion among the Victoria&#8217;s Secret roster began when the transgender model posted a photo of himself at a shoot with &#8220;VS Pink&#8221; on Instagram. Shortly thereafter, the Brazilian model Lais Ribeiro tweeted that she was &#8220;so happy&#8221; that Sampaio experienced his first photoshoot with Victoria&#8217;s Secret.</p>
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<p>The inclusion of Sampaio comes months after L. Brands&#8217; (parent company of Victoria&#8217;s Secret) Chief Marketing Officer Ed Razek sparked the ire of social justice leftists <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/38289/you-wont-believe-what-victorias-secret-trouble-now-amanda-prestigiacomo">when he told Vogue</a> that little interest exists for plus-size and trans models on the runway.</p>
<p>&#8220;I think we address the way the market is shifting on a constant basis. If you&#8217;re asking if we&#8217;ve considered putting a transgender model in the show or looked at putting a plus-size model in the show, we have,&#8221; Razek said, adding that the sister division, Lane Bryant, was created to fill that consumer need.</p>
<p>&#8220;We invented the plus-size model show in what was our sister division, Lane Bryant,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;Lane Bryant still sells plus-size lingerie, but it sells a specific range, just like every specialty retailer in the world sells a range of clothing. As do we.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;We market to who we sell to, and we don&#8217;t market to the whole world,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We attempted to do a television special for plus-sizes [in 2000]. No one had any interest in it, still don&#8217;t.&#8221;</p>
<p>After significant backlash on social media, Razek later apologized, admitting his comments on trans models were &#8220;insensitive.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;My remark regarding the inclusion of transgender models in the Victoria&#8217;s Secret Fashion Show came across as insensitive,&#8221; he said in a statement. &#8220;I apologize. To be clear, we absolutely would cast a transgender model for the show. We&#8217;ve had transgender models come to castings &#8230; and like many others, they didn&#8217;t make it. &#8230; But it was never about gender. I admire and respect their journey to embrace who they really are.&#8221;</p>
<p>Shortly thereafter, People confirmed that <a href="https://people.com/style/victorias-secret-chief-executive-resigns/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Victoria&#8217;s Secret&#8217;s CEO Jan Singer</a> would be leaving the company, though no details were provided as to why. A week later, L Brands&#8217; chairman and chief executive officer <a href="http://investors.lb.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=94854&amp;p=irol-newsArticle&amp;id=2377717" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Leslie H. Wexner released a statement saying</a>, &#8220;I wish Jan well. I greatly appreciate her passion and know she will succeed in whatever she pursues next. We appreciate all that she brought to the brand.&#8221;</p>
<p>In 2017, Playboy broke barriers when the magazine introduced their first-ever transgender playmate — Ines Rau. The move drew immediate criticism on social media, with former porn star Jenna Jameson leading the way.</p>
<p>&#8220;I have a problem with it just like I have a problem with a transgender competing against biological women in sports,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/jennajameson/status/921117157806694401" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-beacon-parsed="true">Jameson tweeted.</a> &#8220;I think <a href="https://twitter.com/jennajameson/status/921125418014425090" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-beacon-parsed="true">it&#8217;s setting fire</a> to an iconic brand and pandering to this ridiculous PC world we live in.&#8221;</p>
<p>Deflecting the criticism, Playboy went as far as to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/22743/playboy-compares-first-transgender-playmate-first-paul-bois">compare</a> Ines Rau to the magazine&#8217;s first black playmate in 1965.</p>
<p>The magazine Vanity Fair, of course, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/gallery/2015/jun/05/caitlyn-jenner-vanity-fair-cover-transgender-gallery">helped spark the trend</a> by featuring Caitlyn Jenner on its cover in 2015.</p>

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