Meet Lea T, Another Out Trans Model

Trans models aren't unique to the fashion world. Ask Caroline Cossey, Lauren Foster, Teri Toye, Jenny Hiloudaki and Tracy Africa Norman.

Tracy was doing her modeling thang back in the 70's but wasn't getting the news coverage as a trans pioneer.

Isis King has the looks and potential to get to that level if she's only given the opportunity to walk on New York runways. But even cis African American women have trouble cracking the vanilla ranks of the runways, and I'm willing to bet that next month's fashion shows in New York and elsewhere will see disproportionate numbers of Eastern European glamazons on the catwalks.

Now comes word that Givenchy has a trans model in their fall campaign and the media is all over it.

But Brazilian model Lea is just part of a long line of glamorous trans women who have been fortunate enough to be in the right place at the right moment in time.

28 year old Lea happens to be the personal assistant for Givenchy's creative director Riccardo Tisci, and modeled at Givenchy's haute couture show.

Requests for her shot through the roof and she's about to get her opportunity at becoming a trailblazer. She'll have the choice of either making it to supermodel status like fellow Brazilian Gisele Bundchen or not because she's studying veterinary medicine in Milan.

Whatever Lea decides, her opportunity to do so will come under the unblinking eyes of media scrutiny.

Dr. Marci Bowers '98% Certain' She's Leaving Trinidad

Looks like I'm not the only well known transperson who is changing addresses this year.

Dr. Marci Bowers is '98% certain' she'll will be moving herself and her practice to the San Francisco bay area October 1.

According to an AP article she is in a relationship with a first year surgical resident in San Francisco and if she moves, she would join an office in San Mateo, CA with two plastic surgeons and a surgery center.

Dr. Bowers has been practicing in Trinidad, CO since the late surgeon Dr. Stanley Biber, who began doing SRS surgeries there in 1969, retired in 2003 and passed away in 2006.

She's been disappointed with the leadership of the Mt. San Rafael hospital where her practice is housed, and also noted in an AP interview that "There are advantages to being in a bigger city with access to airports."

Dr. Bowers is also one of the few surgeons trained in genital reconstruction techniques for people who have been harmed by genital mutilation.

She noted that Trinidad's location three hours driving time on I-25 south of Denver on the Colorado-New Mexico border has been a barrier to some potential patients, but didn't rule out a future return to the area.

Whatever you do Dr. Bowers, good luck and hope that whatever decision you make not only makes you happy, but helps your potential clients as well.

Trans People Are Part Of The Diverse Mosaic Of Life 8

If it isn't clear to our haters by now, it should be obvious that trans people are part of the diverse mosaic of life.



Nadia Almada from UK Big Brother



Indian transwomen



UK police officer Jan Hamilton



Protest of SEPTA transit passes gender code policy in Philadelphia



Brazilian actress Maria Clara Spinelli



Texan Christie Lee Littleton on the cover of IFGE's Tapestry magazine



Iranian transwoman