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Playboy makes history by having the first openly transgender person named as an official playmate. Check out the full story below:

Via Huffington Post

A French model named Ines Rau has become the first openly transgender person to be named a Playboy Playmate in the 64-year history of the publication.

The 26-year-old will receive the title in in the November/December 2017 issue of Playboy where she takes part in a photo-spread and opens up in an interview about her transgender identity.

“I lived a long time without saying I was transgender,” the Rau tells Playboy. “I dated a lot and almost forgot. I was scared of never finding a boyfriend and being seen as weird. Then I was like, You know, you should just be who you are. It’s a salvation to speak the truth about yourself, whether it’s your gender, sexuality, whatever. The people who reject you aren’t worth it. It’s not about being loved by others; it’s about loving yourself.

Later in the interview, the model reflects on society’s limited notions of womanhood, saying that “Being a woman doesn’t mean being extremely feminine all the time. Being a woman is just being a woman.”

Playmate is a title given to select women who appear in the centerfold pictorial in each issue of Playboy magazine.