Andrej Pejic, the male model who shot to fame in the fashion industry when he started modelling women's clothing, has recently been voted FHM's 98th sexiest woman.
But it seems that the magazine does not agree with it's readers who voted for Andrej, as an internet writer for FHM launched a foul-mouthed tirade aimed at the androgynous 19-year-old.
'Designers are hailing him as the next big thing', FHM reads. 'We think 'thing' is quite accurate!'
The small passage beneath Pejic's picture also says: 'The gender-bender has jumped the gun in hoping he might one day be signed as a Victoria's Secret model - pass the sick bucket!'
FHM's writer - who has yet to be named - then goes on to suggest that Pejic has been trying to deceive people by lying about his true gender, before stating: 'More troubling is the fact that Andrej is not the only one when it comes to supermodels that are not all they seem'.
The comments sparked widespread outrage, and FHM was forced to retract the piece of writing and apologize formally to Pejic and to the thousands of readers who had voted for him.
A spokesperson for FHM told the Telegraph: 'Andrej Pejic appears at number 98 in FHM Magazine's 100 Sexiest Women In The World 2011. Regrettably the copy accompanying Andrej's online entry was not subbed prior to going live. Once we realized, we removed it immediately and apologized for any offence caused'.