National Geographic Heralds 'Gender Revolution'
January issue marks first time magazine has featured transgender individuals on the cover.
Hitting newsstands Dec. 27 and posting online Jan. 3, National Geographic’s January 2017 issue is one of the gender ages.
We just published our historic special issue of @NatGeo on the #GenderRevolution. Get one at 1-800-777-2800.https://t.co/pXvHw5Kjz9 pic.twitter.com/jbjj48wb96
— Susan Goldberg (@susanbgoldberg) December 15, 2016
Subscription-issue cover girl Avery Jackson, 9, is from Kansas City. Per The Daily Mail, she was born a boy and announced she was a girl at age 4.
Earlier this year on Facebook, mom Debi, writing about Avery’s children’s book It’s Okay to Sparkle, noted that by virtue of the Jessica Udischas illustrations, it was a ‘book about being transgender, written by a transgender girl, and illustrated by a transgender woman! I think that combo is a first.’
Now Avery is part of another big media first–National Geographic’s first covers to feature transgender individuals.
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