What is Paris Lees?
[[File:Paris Lees (cropped).png|thumb|Paris Lees in 2014]] '''Paris Lees''' is a British [[journalist]] and [[activist]] for [[transgender rights]]. She is a [[bisexual]] [[trans woman]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/sex/9952009/Radio-1s-first-trans-woman-presenter-hating-is-a-national-sport.html|title=Radio 1's first trans woman presenter: hating is a national sport|first=Paris|last=Lees|date=25 March 2013|publisher=|via=www.telegraph.co.uk}}</ref> She is an editor for ''META'' magazine. She has written for newspapers including ''The Independent'', ''The Guardian'', and ''The Daily Telegraph''. She works with [[Trans Media Watch]]. In October 2013 Lees was the first transgender person to be on ''[[Question Time]]''. That month she was named by ''The Independent'' as the most influential [[LGBT]] person in the UK.she also went to the holgate academy in hucknall Nottinghamshire <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152020265746756&set=a.10150174826326756&type=3|title=Paris Lees|website=www.facebook.com}}</ref> ==Early life== Lees grew up in [[Hucknall]] in [[Nottingham]]. Until she was eighteen she thought that she was gay. When Lees was eighteen she was in [[prison]] for 8 months for [[robbery]]. While she was there she stopped smoking and decided she wanted to live as a woman and go back to college to do her A Levels. She moved to [[Brighton]] to study English at [[university]] after getting her A Levels.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-24538594|title=From prison to transgender role model|first=Caroline|last=Lowbridge|date=27 October 2013|publisher=|via=www.bbc.co.uk}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Lees, Paris}} [[Category:BBC 100 Women]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:British LGBT rights activists]] [[Category:Transgender women]] [[Category:1986 births]] [[Category:British columnists]] [[Category:British radio personalities]] [[Category:English journalists]] {{Biography-stub}}