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Fellas, Is It Trans To Be a Pregnant Woman? Anne Hathaway's Haters Say Yes

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

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