{"id":1265,"date":"2015-12-18T14:48:12","date_gmt":"2015-12-18T14:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/?p=1265"},"modified":"2015-12-18T14:48:12","modified_gmt":"2015-12-18T14:48:12","slug":"be-inspired-by-these-thai-transgender-models-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/?p=1265","title":{"rendered":"Be inspired by these Thai transgender models\u2019 stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1266\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1266\" style=\"width: 776px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/artsandculture\/article\/28886\/1\/be-inspired-by-these-thai-transgender-models-stories\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1266 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/1153167.jpg\" alt=\"Shiraz Randeria\" width=\"786\" height=\"524\" srcset=\"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/1153167.jpg 786w, https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/1153167-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/1153167-199x133.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 786px) 100vw, 786px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1266\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shiraz Randeria<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2 class=\"strapline\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Palatino; font-size: 10pt;\">Apple Model agency opened the world\u2019s first transgender division this year, but these girls have long been standing up for their beliefs \u2013 no matter the cost<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/applemodels.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Apple models<\/a>\u00a0has been going for thirteen years, but this year opened the world\u2019s first\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/applemodels.com\/transgender\/\" target=\"_blank\">transgender division<\/a>. \u201cIt\u2019s good news,\u201d says Noam Lev, co-director of Bangkok\u2019s Apple Model agency. \u201cSome of our transgender girls have had problems with their passports; you have a beautiful woman turn up at airport immigration and their photo, maybe taken years before, is of a guy. So even being able to address that issue officially is another step in the right direction.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1268\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1268\" style=\"width: 776px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/artsandculture\/article\/28886\/1\/be-inspired-by-these-thai-transgender-models-stories\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1268 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/1153175.jpg\" alt=\"Shiraz Randeria\" width=\"786\" height=\"524\" srcset=\"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/1153175.jpg 786w, https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/1153175-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/1153175-199x133.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 786px) 100vw, 786px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1268\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shiraz Randeria<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">But while the fashion industry, (and the rest of the world), seemingly takes leaps forward in terms of trans acceptance, signing transgender models is just another day at the office for many Bangkok based modelling agencies. \u201cIt\u2019s not a new thing here in Bangkok \u2013 many of the agencies have had trans models but they\u2019ve always been pushed as girls, so the clients would never know. If a model became very successful, then it was easier for them to come out, but otherwise they were always in hiding. What we\u2019re doing is being upfront: We tell the girls that we represent them as who they are.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Read the whole article and see more pictures on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/artsandculture\/article\/28886\/1\/be-inspired-by-these-thai-transgender-models-stories\"><strong>dazed digital<\/strong><\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/artsandculture\/article\/28886\/1\/be-inspired-by-these-thai-transgender-models-stories\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">http:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/artsandculture\/article\/28886\/1\/be-inspired-by-these-thai-transgender-models-stories<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shirazranderia.com\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Shiraz Randeria<\/strong><\/span><\/a> is a freelance editorial and creative director working for magazines and fashion clients. He is based between\u00a0London, Shanghai and Hong Kong.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple Model agency opened the world\u2019s first transgender division this year, but these girls have long been standing up for their beliefs \u2013 no matter the cost Apple models\u00a0has been going for thirteen years, but this year opened the world\u2019s first\u00a0transgender division. \u201cIt\u2019s good news,\u201d says Noam Lev, co-director of Bangkok\u2019s Apple Model agency. \u201cSome &#8230; <a title=\"Be inspired by these Thai transgender models\u2019 stories\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/?p=1265\" aria-label=\"Mehr Informationen \u00fcber Be inspired by these Thai transgender models\u2019 stories\">Weiterlesen<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1265"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1269,"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265\/revisions\/1269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}