Caitlyn Jenner Honored as a Glamour Woman of the Year

This image provided by Conde Nast shows actress Reese Witherspoon on the cover of Glamour magazine’s 25th Anniversary Women of Year issue.

Cindi Leive, Glamour’s editor-in-chief, said in an interview that criticism of Jenner’s inclusion “certainly gives you an appreciation for the hostility to the trans community that still exists out there”.

The awards will take place on November 9, which will be declared Women of the Year Day by New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio. The EMPIRE State Building will illuminate its world-famous tower lights in Glamour pink to commemorate Women of the Year Day and symbolize the millions of women around the world who continue to break barriers.

“I think misogyny plays a really big part in all of this, that a man who goes to these lengths to become a woman will be a better woman than someone who is just born a woman”, she said.

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Jenner is the Transgender Champion.

“I started thinking, Maybe this is why God put me on earth”. “This issue has been swept under the rug for so long”. I was like, ‘I feel like Gloria Steinem told me to do Legally Blonde.

Richards is the Health Advocate, for stressing Planned Parenthood’s delivery of health services to millions of women, and for refusing to back down in the face of threats by Congress to defund the organization.

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Victoria said, ‘did have to find myself and my confidence. That’s the same message as the Spice Girls. It’s still Girl Power’. The Women of the Year awards are meant to thrive on winners’ diverse stories and experiences – such as Copeland’s journey to becoming the first African-American principal for the American Ballet Theatre.

“Go in there, no more pain”, she told the magazine she thought. Today, Holmes, 31, is the youngest self-made female billionaire in the world.

– Jenner: After years of hiding her true self, the Olympic hero and Kardashian-Jenner family reality TV parent has faced her share of critics since coming out as a trans woman earlier this year, including a few within the trans community who felt her wealth and privilege made her an outsider in their world, too.