Paris Lees

thumb|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. She topped The Independent on Sundays 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. Lees is the first trans columnist at Vogue and was the first trans woman to present shows on BBC Radio 1 and Channel 4. Her first book, What It Feels Like For a Girl, was published by Penguin in 2021. Quotes People have been taking the piss out of trans people for 60 years. The narrative on trans issues has been controlled by people who have no understanding of them. Social media is about us grabbing the narrative back and telling our own stories – this is our reality, this is what we go through and this is what matters to us. We're here, we're in your face, we definitely exist. That's the most important thing – realising we exist. As quoted in Barkham Patrick Voices from the trans community: 'There will always be prejudice' https://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/jan/22/voices-from-trans-community-prejudice The Guardian 22 January 2013 External links Category:1986 births Category:Living people Category:Journalists from England Category:Transfeminists Category:LGBT people Category:Activists from England Category:Columnists from England Category:Editors from England Category:Women authors from England Category:Broadcasters Category:LGBT rights activists Category:Transgender and transsexual women Category:Media personalities Category:Transgender rights activists Category:Civil rights activists Category:Memoirists from England Category:Women born in the 1980s