(The Lion) — With a global population of nearly 4 billion women, Glamour UK announced nine biological men who identify as female as its 2025 Women of the Year.

The magazine dubbed the men “The Dolls” in an Oct. 29 article honoring them for their “tireless” work “to empower, uplift and celebrate trans voices.”

In response, author J.K. Rowling, who has publicly opposed the transgender movement as anti-women, mourned the cultural failure Glamour presents.

“I grew up in an era when mainstream women’s magazines told girls they needed to be thinner and prettier,” she wrote in a post on X. “Now mainstream women’s magazines tell girls that men are better women than they are.”

Indeed, Glamour depicts the men as pioneers of womanhood.

“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 posted on X, excerpted from the article’s subhead.

“From fashion and music to charity and activism work, these trailblazers work tirelessly to empower, uplift and celebrate trans voices.”

Glamour’s choice to recognize men as women follows an April ruling of the UK Supreme Court clarifying that the word “sex” in the Equality Act 2010 refers to a person’s “biological sex” or “sex at birth.”

The headline photo of Glamour’s article, “The Dolls: ‘What we really crave is to work, love and exist with dignity,’” features each of the men boasting a “Protect the Dolls” white shirt – a cultural statement to demonstrate support for “trans women.”

After designer Conner Ives first wore the shirt in February, multiple celebrities including Madonna, Addison Rae and Mariah Carey have sported the clothing, instigating a larger trend, Glamour reports.

The use of “doll” dates to “Black and Latina queer communities or ‘houses’ in the Ballroom scene” of the 1980s, according to Glamour.

“The term ‘doll’ comes from ballroom,” MUNYA, a model based in London and one of the nine “women of the year” told Glamour. “So, if you’re all going to be ‘dolling’, please acknowledge that a lot of lingo – a lot of vernacular that’s out here in mainstream used by cis people … acknowledge the fact that it’s Black trans women that this is all coming from.

“It would be nice to see that appreciation from the world, rather than seeing our culture popping up in the mainstream but not the actual people who should be also celebrated for that creativity.”

Before the 1980s, “doll” implied quite the opposite. In fact, “doll” was often a derogatory term to degrade women, implying women have little to no autonomy but are instead only for men’s entertainment. Playwright Henrik Ibsen commented on this misogynistic perspective in his work, A Doll’s House, published in 1879.

In a peculiar twist, biological men claiming to be women now use the term “doll” to promote “transgender rights,” especially in their demand for money and healthcare.

“I think it should, first and foremost, be ‘pay the dolls’ because there’s no protection like having stability and having money to secure yourself with housing and hormones and all these things,” model Ceval Omar told Glamour. “So, ‘paying the dolls,’ I think, is very important, even when you think of protecting the dolls. And next is showing up for them in rooms and spaces where they’re not present.”

British journalist Piers Morgan argues honoring nine men as “women of the year” is “beyond parody even by ludicrous woke virtue-signaling standards,” warning Glamour will likely face backlash.

(Image credit: Screenshot/glamourmagazine.co.uk)