Men's magazine Playboy has featured its first ever — transgender 'playmate' centerfold in its November issue, a move which the model hopes will pave the way for "all women - trans or otherwise — in fashion and other sectors." "No one deserves to be a woman more than those [trans women] who routinely suffer abuse and are treated like they're less than nothing." In March the French edition of Vogue featured a transgender model for the first time on its cover, as did Marie Claire Spain in 2016. In August French cosmetics giant L'Oreal hired is first transgender model, Munroe Bergdorf, to front an advertising campaign celebrating diversity. "Trans women are women.

Source: CBC News October 20, 2017 18:52 UTC