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Beloved actress Anne Hathaway, who is currently five months pregnant, is being “transvestigated” for showing off her nearly fully exposed baby bump on the red carpet. Yes, we had to read that twice also.At the August 9 Los Angeles premiere of The End of Oak Street, starring Hathaway and Ewan McGregor, the actress appeared in a custom Atelier Prabal Gurung blue silk crop top and low-rise jeans, proudly displaying the bottom of her baby bump. After footage from the carpet made the rounds on social media, transvestigators — a group of transphobes who have made it their mission to falsely accuse prominent cisgender celebrities of being transgender — made her their latest target.“Here she’s wearing a fake pregnant belly. They all do it,” one commenter wrote on X. “They know it’s fake. We know it's fake. They know that we know that it's fake,” another wrote on X. Rather than engage with and entertain these unnamed commenters, Hathaway used her notable wit to shut the questions about her bump down: “Fake hair, real bump,” she wrote in an Instagram Reel, taking a playful jab at transvestigators everywhere.InstagramAnne Hathaway (@annehathaway) • Instagram reel1M likes, 6,331 comments - annehathaway on August 10, 2026: “Fake hair, real bump 😘 ✌️🦖🔥☀️🦕😅Enjoy The @endofoakstreet Block Party chaos with me as my outfit literally melts in the heat!!”.Though it’s an egregious example of the fringe conspiracy theory in action, this isn’t even the first time transvestigators have gone after a prominent pregnant cisgender woman. Transveistigators also targeted Daniel Radcliffe’s girlfriend Erin Darke, who like Hathaway, was pregnant at the time of the online vitriol.Other recent examples of people targeted by this online subset of transphobes include first lady Michelle Obama, Taylor Swift, and Algerian Olympic gold medalist Imane Khalif, with Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling making baseless and incorrect accusations about her assigned sex. Emerging from shadowy corners of the internet in the late 2010s, per GLAAD, transvestigstors frequently use racist, antisemetic, and white supremacist standards of beauty to make false accusations about a celebrity’s alleged transness. Similar to alt-right conspiracy theories like QAnon and Pizzagate, transvestigating inhabits similar corners of the extremist internet. In recent years, however, as the conservative right has used transphobia as an effective political tool to further its policy agenda, transvestigation has gone more mainstream, with figuressuch as JD Vance and Elon Musk spouting talking points ripped from the conspiracy theory. But as with many right-wing conspiracy theories, the snake eats its own tail in the ouroboros of hate. In November 2025, Erika Kirk, wife of late conservative pundit and Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, was accused of being trans and faced her own transvesitgation online. Even first lady Melania Trump has faced accusations from transvestigators for years. This is because many transvestigators believe that all celebrities and people in positions of power are trans in a phenomenon they call “Elite Gender Inversion.” More than anything, perhaps, transvestigation is yet another example of how flagrant transphobia ends up hurting everyone, not just trans people.Get the best of what’s queer. Sign up for Them’s weekly newsletter here.
Beloved actress Anne Hathaway, who is currently five months pregnant, is being “transvestigated” for showing off her nearly fully exposed baby bump on the red carpet. Yes, we had to read that twice also.
At the August 9 Los Angeles premiere of The End of Oak Street, starring Hathaway and Ewan McGregor, the actress appeared in a custom Atelier Prabal Gurung blue silk crop top and low-rise jeans, proudly displaying the bottom of her baby bump. After footage from the carpet made the rounds on social media, transvestigators — a group of transphobes who have made it their mission to falsely accuse prominent cisgender celebrities of being transgender — made her their latest target.
“Here she’s wearing a fake pregnant belly. They all do it,” one commenter wrote on X.
“They know it’s fake. We know it's fake. They know that we know that it's fake,” another wrote on X.
Rather than engage with and entertain these unnamed commenters, Hathaway used her notable wit to shut the questions about her bump down: “Fake hair, real bump,” she wrote in an Instagram Reel, taking a playful jab at transvestigators everywhere.
Though it’s an egregious example of the fringe conspiracy theory in action, this isn’t even the first time transvestigators have gone after a prominent pregnant cisgender woman. Transveistigators also targeted Daniel Radcliffe’s girlfriend Erin Darke, who like Hathaway, was pregnant at the time of the online vitriol.
Other recent examples of people targeted by this online subset of transphobes include first lady Michelle Obama, Taylor Swift, and Algerian Olympic gold medalist Imane Khalif, with Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling making baseless and incorrect accusations about her assigned sex.
Emerging from shadowy corners of the internet in the late 2010s, per GLAAD, transvestigstors frequently use racist, antisemetic, and white supremacist standards of beauty to make false accusations about a celebrity’s alleged transness. Similar to alt-right conspiracy theories like QAnon and Pizzagate, transvestigating inhabits similar corners of the extremist internet. In recent years, however, as the conservative right has used transphobia as an effective political tool to further its policy agenda, transvestigation has gone more mainstream, with figuressuch as JD Vance and Elon Musk spouting talking points ripped from the conspiracy theory.
But as with many right-wing conspiracy theories, the snake eats its own tail in the ouroboros of hate. In November 2025, Erika Kirk, wife of late conservative pundit and Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, was accused of being trans and faced her own transvesitgation online. Even first lady Melania Trump has faced accusations from transvestigators for years. This is because many transvestigators believe that all celebrities and people in positions of power are trans in a phenomenon they call “Elite Gender Inversion.” More than anything, perhaps, transvestigation is yet another example of how flagrant transphobia ends up hurting everyone, not just trans people.
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