Meet The Model Who Lied About Being Transgender

After Model Carissa Pinkston was caught making transphobic statements on twitter, she responded to the controversy by coming out as transgender herself… except she wasn’t.

Pinkston, who has graced the pages of VOUGE and is represented by the legendary Elite Modeling agency in the US and Premiere Model Management in the UK, made the now deleted anti-trans posts back in May, insisting that “Trans women are not women.”

Backlash to the remarks immediately ensued, even from fellow models. In the aftermath, Pinkston alleges she retrieved hate mail, death threats and was fired from her job once her tweets went viral. In an attempt to salvage what remained of her spiraling career, she took to her Instagram and made an unexpected move- she came out as a male-to-female trans person.