A model, writer and campaigner has become the first openly transgender woman to be featured in British Vogue.
Paris Lees is included in a feature celebrating 100 years since women have had the right to vote in the UK.
She is joined by writer Reni Eddo-Lodge, Women's Equality Party's Sophie Walker, artist Gillian Wearing, MP Stella Creasy, blogger Dina Tokio and Gal-Dem magazine founder Liv Little.
Lees thanked the magazine for including her in the "special moment".
"Look how far we've come," she said.
"It's insane that I could be in Vogue. A trans kid from a council estate.
"People at school told me I'd never be a girl, would never be pretty enough, would never be accepted – well here I am being celebrated as a woman."
April Ashley, one of the first Britons to undergo genital reconstruction surgery, modelled for Vogue in the 1950s. She was outed by tabloids as trans in the 1960s.
In 2017, French Vogue featured a transgender model on its cover for the first time.
And in 2014, American Vogue profiled trans model Andreja Pejic.
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April Ashley modelled for Vogue in the 50s. She was too scared to tell people she was trans. When she was outed by tabloids in the 60s her career was ruined. Same happened to Caroline Cossey in the 80s. All my life people have told me I'm not a woman. Thank God times are changing
— Paris Lees (@parislees) January 4, 2018
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Lees has also hit back at criticism of her inclusion in Vogue on Twitter, calling for the social media network's chief executive Jack Dorsey to take anti-trans hate crime seriously.
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I don't let these people get to me and I'd have crumbled a long time ago if I did but I do encourage anyone who sees people making these discriminatory, hateful, hurtful comments on here to report it to Twitter. It's about time @jack started taking anti trans hate crime seriously
— Paris Lees (@parislees) January 4, 2018
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Lees began her career writing for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) press and has written for newspapers including the Guardian, Independent and Telegraph.
She founded META, a digital magazine for trans people and was also the first transgender woman to appear on the cover of DIVA, a magazine for lesbian and bisexual women.
She said: "When I was growing up, you rarely saw trans people in public life and only then as objects of ridicule, pity or disgust.
"We've still got a long way to go before we reach equality and it's important we fight for all women."
Swedish fashion photographer Julia Hetta took the women's portrait that is in the February issue of the magazine.
It is the third issue of Vogue to be published with editor Edward Enninful at the helm.
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