Paris Lees’ inspiring journey to become the first trans woman in Vogue

Unfiltered with Oli Dugmore

Unfiltered with Oli Dugmore || JOE Media

Society & Culture

4.6 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2018

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Even as a young child, Paris Lees knew that she didn’t feel right in her body. In a bold and revealing interview, Paris takes James O’Brien on a journey from experimenting with tights and make-up, a reckless adolescence selling sex and spending time in prison, to becoming the first trans woman to feature in Vogue.

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0:20.0	You're listening to Unfiltered with James O'Brien, brought to you by Joe.
0:24.0	Hello, welcome to the very latest Unfiltered, which is arguably the most important one so far, because as I'm sure you've noticed,
0:37.5	transgender issues have assumed a new prominence in the British media that is rather hard to understand my own theory sadly is that as a former tabloid show business journalist I think I speak the lingo
0:50.9	They've become the section of society that it's okay to criticize, lamp, mock, denigrate,
0:59.6	undermine and even accused of somehow being fraudulent in this case gender in previous generations it would be sexuality.
1:09.0	So you're about to meet Paris Lees who's probably the most prominent transgender person in the country.
1:14.8	She's certainly one of the most articulate and outspoken, but the whole point of this, and I hope
1:19.2	it works, I've only met her once before, is to introduce you to a trans person, because you've
1:26.8	probably never met one before.
1:28.4	If you have, I apologize.
1:29.6	If you haven't, well, see how we get on.
1:34.0	We didn't know when we set this up.
1:37.0	We didn't know when we set this up that by the time you sat here you would have become the first
1:45.7	transgender person to feature on the front cover of Vogue magazine.
1:48.6	Well I knew that I was going to be in Vogue.
1:52.0	On Vogue, not just in vogue.
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