Canadian magazine features 2 men in ‘8 incredible women’ article

ELLE magazine has been criticised for including two biological males in an article titled “8 incredible Canadian women”.

The article celebrated transgender musician, writer, actor and artist Vivek Shraya, as well as LGBT activist Fae Johnstone. Both are men who identify as women.

The Canadian branch of the international magazine changed the article’s name on the online version to “These Incredible Canadians Have Broken The Glass Ceiling”, after receiving backlash on social media.

Outrage

Many expressed outrage on X, with one user saying: “So now you’re comparing men to women in a women’s magazine and finding men to be better at breaking the glass ceiling? I don’t understand why you would diminish the efforts and successes of actual women.”

Another post expressed: “I am sure someone at Elle can work out how deeply offensive it is to women to have to include 2 men in a list of 8 incredible women.”

One critic added: “To post articles for a women’s magazine, you should surely have a basic understanding of what a woman is?”

Women’s sports

Radical gender ideology is widespread in Canada, and female athletes recently criticised rules which allow men to compete in women’s powerlifting.

Anne Andres, a man who identifies as a woman, won first place in the Females Masters Unequipped category last year, outlifting the females in the category by over 200 kilograms.

Powerlifter April Hutchinson explained that Andres competing had led to many women withdrawing from the competition: “They dropped, they quit, they wrote to the federation, and the federation basically did nothing about it.”