Just yesterday, Shay Neary was hailed as the first plus-size transgender model to land a fashion campaign. In 2016 more than ever, trans people are visible in the fashion world, gracing magazine covers, runways, and podiums as leaders in fashion and activism. Just yesterday, Shay Neary was hailed as the first plus-size transgender model to land a fashion campaign. In 2016 more than ever, trans people are visible in the fashion world, gracing magazine covers, runways, and podiums as leaders in fashion and activism.
Here are 9 times (in no particular order) the fashion industry put transgender people in the spotlight in 2016:
This is a major win for diversity in fashion, but we obviously still have a lot more work to do. Neary still says it is difficult for her to get casted in fashion shoots, as she “ticks off too many diversity boxes.”
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