Twenty-six-year-old Miles Yardley — formerly known in downtown New York City as a musician, influencer, and model named Salomé — publicly renounced his trans identity this year, sold his women’s clothing online, and began posting grim details to his 20,000 or so followers on X about how his medical transition as a teenager has affected his body over the past decade. Yardley is a microcelebrity — as Salomé, he modeled for fashion brands Elena Velez and Batsheva, and he’s currently auditioning for a show on HBO. His detransition was, in part, spurred by another micro-celebrity, the alt-right provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos, with whom Yardley is sharing a house in Los Angeles. Yiannopoulos now claims to be “ex-gay” and has launched Tarantula, a talent agency for scandal-plagued celebrities; Yardley is a Tarantula client. Yardley also says he’s ex-gay and is undergoing a form of conversion therapy — a branch of therapy as debunked as possible in a changing world — and has made a public embrace of Roman Catholicism.
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