{"id":1107,"date":"2014-07-31T08:28:46","date_gmt":"2014-07-31T13:28:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=1107"},"modified":"2014-07-31T08:28:46","modified_gmt":"2014-07-31T13:28:46","slug":"model-andreja-pejic-comes-out-as-a-transgender-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/1107","title":{"rendered":"Model Andreja Pejic Comes Out As A Transgender Woman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Contributed by Ashley R. Lierman<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Via\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.advocate.com\/politics\/transgender\/2014\/07\/25\/watch-model-andreja-pejic-comes-out-transgender-woman\">the Advocate<\/a>\u00a0(link includes video):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Australian model\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.glaad.org\/blog\/model-andreja-pejic-comes-out-publicly-transgender-woman-shares-her-experience-media-and\"><strong>Andreja Pejic<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0announced in interviews with\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.etonline.com\/media\/video\/meet_the_world_most_successful_transgendered_model-148839\/index.html\"><strong>Entertainment Tonight<\/strong><\/a><\/em>,\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.people.com\/article\/andrej-pejic-sex-reassignment-surgery-exclusive\"><strong>People.com<\/strong><\/a><\/em>, and\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.style.com\/stylefile\/2014\/07\/andreja-pejic-sexual-reassignment-surgery\/\"><strong>Style.com<\/strong><\/a><\/em>, that she is a woman\u00a0<span data-term=\"goog_633897352\">on Thursday<\/span>. The 22-year-old model has long indicated a nonbinary transgender identity, and made use of feminine pronouns, but it was only last night that she came forward, confirming that she has been taking steps to medically transition.<\/p>\n<p>The Bosnian-born Pejic entered the public consciousness in 2011 when she appeared modeling both men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s wear as part of Jean-Paul Gaultier fashion shows, becoming one of the world&#8217;s most versatile and visible, androgynous models. Since then, she&#8217;s appeared on the covers of\u00a0<em>Elle&#8217;s<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em>Siberian edition, and\u00a0<em>New York<\/em>\u00a0magazine, among a number of other publications, and was featured in David Bowie&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gH7dMBcg-gE\"><strong>The Stars are Out Tonight<\/strong><\/a>&#8221; music video alongside Tilda Swinton. Earlier this year, Pejic was cast in Sophia Coppola&#8217;s upcoming live-action film adaptation of\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mtv.com\/news\/1846778\/andrej-pejic-sofia-coppola-the-little-mermaid\/\"><strong>The Little Mermaid<\/strong><\/a>.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[Image credit: Entertainment Tonight]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contributed by Ashley R. Lierman Via\u00a0the Advocate\u00a0(link includes video): Australian model\u00a0Andreja Pejic\u00a0announced in interviews with\u00a0Entertainment Tonight,\u00a0People.com, and\u00a0Style.com, that she is a woman\u00a0on Thursday. The 22-year-old model has long indicated a nonbinary transgender identity, and made use of feminine pronouns, but it was only last night that she came forward, confirming that she has been taking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":1108,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carousel","category-media-of-note"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}