20 Celebrities Who Have Changed The Way We View Gender
Andreja Pejic
“Society doesn’t tell you that you can be trans. I thought about being gay, but it didn’t fit. . . . I thought, Well, maybe this ‘the fantasy of living life as a girl ‘s just something you like to imagine sometimes. Try to be a boy and try to be normal. […] “There are just more categories now. It’s good. We’re finally figuring out that gender and sexuality are more complicated.”
This Bosnian model completed her transition into a woman in 2013. Before that she was known as the first completely androgynous supermodel and today is known as the most recognizable transgender model in the world. She is currently working on a film about her reassignment surgery and transgender women in general. She is also the first openly transgender model that has been profiled by Vogue in their May 2015 issue. Also in 2015, she became the first transgender woman to sign a cosmetics contract. It’s easy to say that she is shattering the glass ceiling for transgender models.