Appointed as the trans girlfriend of the French player Kylian Mbappé, the model Ines Rau should not go to Qatar to follow the World Cup final between France and Argentina. The reason would be the fact that the country criminalizes the LGBTQIA+ public.
However, she has not even needed to leave the house to receive transphobic attacks. In the last photo published by her, on October 19, there are many homophobic insults, older and more recent. Some attacks are also directed at the alleged player boyfriend.
The model has avoided making publications since the beginning of the Cup. The statement that the athlete and the model were a couple was made by the website of the Italian sports newspaper Corriere Dello Sport and reproduced, among others, by the Spanish Marca, which cites “the French and Italian press” as sources of information. Rau and Mbappé, of Paris Saint Germain and the French national team, have not confirmed the relationship.
Rumors about the romance began during the Cannes Film Festival in May, when photos of the attacker holding Rau in his arms went viral on social media during a jet ski ride along the French coast. Images of the two aboard a yacht also traveled the world.
The model underwent a gender reassignment surgery at age 24 and became famous in 2017, when she posed nude for the American version of Playboy magazine – something unheard of in the publication until then. She said that she was personally chosen by the founder of the magazine, Hugh Hefner, the stereotype of the big-grandfather-straight-taker – at least that was the image he tried to convey until her death, also in 2017.
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