Hollywood Toys & Costumes has created a "Call Me Caitlyn" Halloween costume that has outraged many people.

The costume reportedly comes with a padded corset, wig and pageant sash and is meant to poke fun at Caitlyn Jenner's recent Vanity Fair cover where she officially came out transgender, CBS News reports.

Social media users have slammed the costume and company for what they perceive as mocking the transgender community.

Check out some of their tweets below.

Alex Schmider of the Los Angeles LGBT Center recently told CBS he feels the costume "opens the door" for bullying and increased hate crimes against the transgender community.

"Any parody, especially this one of Caitlyn Jenner, opens the door for bullies and bigots to mock with impunity," he said. "If I had seen a woman in that costume sort of celebrating Caitlyn Jenner as a hero, that would have felt different to me than the man that was in the costume feeling like it was making a mockery of her."

But despite the backlash the costume has received since its debut, Derek Rogers, the manager and buyer at Hollywood Toys & Costumes said the "Call Me Caitlyn" costume is all in good fun and completely harmless.

"I thought it's a perfect costume. They imitate the president. They do Michael Jackson. It's all, anybody, anybody's fair game," he told CBS.

The New York Daily News reports that the "Call Me Caitlyn" costume has been picked up by many online retailers for $49.90. Another online retail store, Spirit Halloween, has revamped the costume and is selling it for $74.99.

So far, Caitlyn Jenner has yet to respond to the controversy surrounding the "Call Me Caitlyn" costume.

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