Paris Lees

Paris Lees at the Brick Lane Bookshop in London holding her book 'What It Feels Like For A Girl' in 2022.

Paris Lees is an English author, journalist, presenter and campaigner.[1][2][3] She topped The Independent on Sunday's 2013 Pink List, came second in the 2014 Rainbow List, and was awarded the Positive Role Model Award for LGBT in the 2012 National Diversity Awards.[1][4][5][6] Lees is the first trans columnist at Vogue and was the first trans woman to present shows on BBC Radio 1 and Channel 4.[7] Her first book, What It Feels Like For a Girl, was published by Penguin in 2021.[8]

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  2. ^ "Life as a trans woman". BBC. 4 February 2018. Archived from the original on 7 March 2023. Retrieved 17 February 2021.
  3. ^ "Paris Lees: 'It drives me crazy when people introduce me as a trans activist'". The Guardian. 22 May 2021. Archived from the original on 24 May 2024. Retrieved 26 May 2021.
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  7. ^ "Paris Lees is Vogue's first trans columnist". 30 November 2018. Archived from the original on 19 April 2019. Retrieved 19 April 2019.
  8. ^ Dazed (27 May 2021). "Paris Lees: 'I'm refusing the trans misery narrative'". Dazed. Archived from the original on 23 June 2021. Retrieved 19 June 2021.