A picture of JD Vance allegedly dressed as a girl and sporting a blonde wig was posted to X, previously often known as Twitter, on Sunday. The unconfirmed picture shortly picked up steam and started trending below the hashtag #SofaLoren, a reference to false claims that the Republican senator had intercourse with a sofa.
A spokesperson for the Republican vice presidential decide didn’t deny the photograph’s authenticity when approached by the Day by day Beast, and didn’t supply any additional remark.
The supply who surfaced the alleged photograph, Travis Whitfill, says the image was taken by a fellow Yale classmate in 2012, when Vance was attending legislation college on the college. 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 advised the Day by day Beast. “I imagine it was grabbed from Fb and was taken at a Halloween celebration.”
Many commenters on-line related Vance’s alleged historical past of cross-dressing together with his legislative historical past—which has lengthy been some extent of concern for LGBTQ+ advocacy teams.
The Ohio senator launched the “Shield Kids’s Innocence Act,” which aims to criminalize medical establishments that present gender-affirming care to minors.
The Republican vice presidential decide additionally helps measures to restrict classroom dialogue of sexual orientation and gender identification, and labeled critics of so-called “don’t say homosexual” laws “groomers.”
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