A model who falsely claimed to be transgender to deflect backlash over past transphobic social media comments now says she takes
“full responsibility”for her remarks.
In May, Carissa Pinkston, a model for Rihanna's Savage X Fenty lingerie line, posted a series of remarks to her Facebook account, where she went by the name Rissa Danielle.
“Being transgender does not NOT make you a woman. It simply makes you transgender,” Pinkston wrote in one of the posts.
In another, she stated that though transgender people “want to be perceived” as male or female, “in a biological context, there are males and females.”
When she was called out for her comments at the time, Pinkston did not apologize, but rather likened the notion of transgender identity to reclaiming virginity.
Screenshots of these now-deleted comments resurfaced on Twitter last week, and Pinkston was promptly fired from her agency, Elite Models.
