Paris Lees
British journalist and activist for transgender rights · United Kingdom · On the map · Journalists · Born 1986 · age 40
Paris Lees is an English author, journalist, presenter and campaigner. 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.
Paris Lees is read about 80 times a day, in 14 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 6 November 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 400 days, one point a day.
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, 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.
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Lees is the first transgender columnist at Vogue and was the first transgender 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 and adapted into a television series in 2025.
