Glamour UK defended its latest cover featuring nine trans women, which struck a nerve among right-wing influencers and “Harry Potter” author JK Rowling. The magazine cover, revealed Thursday, honors a group of trans women involved in different fields. They are pictured wearing “Protect the Dolls” shirts created by designer Connor Ives to raise funds for charity Trans Lifeline. The cover story celebrates the magazine’s annual Women of the Year Awards, which it says “shine a light on the importance of celebrating sisterhood and solidarity during a particularly fraught year for women’s rights.”In addition to trans women, this year’s awards also honored multiple cisgender women, including actors Rachel Zegler and Demi Moore.The slogan “Protect the Dolls” originated in Black and Latinx 1980s ballroom and drag culture, and is used to express support for trans women. Celebrities including actor Pedro Pascal, singer Troye Sivan and TikTok star-turned-hit-pop artist Addison Rae have worn the slogan in public. Pedro Pascal wearing a "Protect The Dolls" shirt in April.Scott A Garfitt/Invision/AP“As trans rights face increasing threat in the UK, Glamour honours nine of the community’s most ground-breaking voices at this year’s Women of the Year Awards,” the magazine said while announcing the cover. “From fashion and music to charity and activism work, these trailblazers work tirelessly to empower, uplift and celebrate trans voices.” Several right-wing activists and personalities, including Katie Miller, the wife of White House homeland security adviser Stephen Miller, took issue with the cover.Glamour UK honored 9 men on their cover. Men aren’t better at being a woman than women. Girls don’t grow up wanting to be men. Between grooming gangs, senseless murders by Afghanis - the UK has been destroyed by woke ideology and open borders. pic.twitter.com/paI4AckIwG— Katie Miller (@KatieMiller) October 31, 2025Rowling, who has routinely expressed transphobic views and reportedly donated tens of thousands of pounds to efforts to exclude transgender people from the legal definition of “women” in the UK, was among those who were outraged. “I grew up in an era when mainstream women’s magazines told girls they needed to be thinner and prettier,” Rowling wrote Thursday on X. “Now mainstream women’s magazines tell girls that men are better women than they are.” Glamour UK replied to the author’s post, writing, “Better luck next year Jo x.”The magazine also released a much longer statement on its website saying staff was “unmoved” by JK Rowling’s post on X.“We categorically reject Rowling’s misgendering of our brilliant cover stars,” the magazine wrote. The statement also included the subheading, “Stay mad, JK.”Close