A picture of JD Vance allegedly dressed as a girl and dressed in a blonde wig used to be posted to X, previously referred to as Twitter, on Sunday. The unconfirmed symbol briefly picked up steam and started trending underneath the hashtag #SofaLoren, a connection with the long-lasting Italian actress Sophia Loren and false claims that the Republican senator had intercourse with a sofa.A spokesperson for the Republican vice presidential pick out didn’t deny the photograph’s authenticity when approached by way of the Day-to-day Beast, and didn’t be offering any more remark.The supply who surfaced the alleged photograph, Travis Whitfill, says the image used to be taken by way of a fellow Yale classmate in 2012, when Vance used to be attending legislation college on the college, and despatched to him by way of every other good friend. Whitfill then despatched it to podcast host Matt Bernstein, who posted it to X.“It’s from a bunch chat of Vance’s fellow classmates and is from a pal of a pal,” he informed the Day-to-day Beast. “I imagine it used to be grabbed from Fb and used to be taken at a Halloween birthday party.”Whitfill additionally posted about his position in bringing the photograph to gentle, sharing screenshots of the textual content dialog wherein he first gained the photograph.“I didn’t know him,” Whitfill wrote, “from the entire resources I’ve heard, JD used to be in fact a excellent man in legislation college. No longer certain what took place after despite the fact that…”“Doing my section for democracy 💁🏻♂️,” he added in every other publish.Many commenters on-line hooked up Vance’s alleged historical past of cross-dressing along with his legislative historical past—which has lengthy been some extent of shock for LGBTQ+ advocacy teams.The Ohio senator presented the “Give protection to Youngsters’s Innocence Act,” which goals to criminalize scientific establishments that supply gender-affirming care to minors.The Republican vice presidential pick out additionally helps measures to restrict study room dialogue of sexual orientation and gender identification, and categorized critics of so-called “don’t say homosexual” regulation “groomers.”Learn extra at The Day-to-day Beast.Get the Day-to-day Beast’s largest scoops and scandals delivered proper for your inbox. Enroll now.Keep knowledgeable and achieve limitless get admission to to the Day-to-day Beast’s unrivaled reporting. Subscribe now.
