"I fly away, I'm free, I'm beside myself. I feel like my soul is finally liberated as if the padlock that has kept me locked up for so long has been opened. This time, yes, I am a woman. Totally."
According to Wikipedia, Inès Rau, (sometimes written Ines Rau or Ines-Loan Rau), is a French model and actress born in 1990 in Nancy.
She is known for being Playboy magazine's "Playmate of the Month" in November 2017, to have become the first openly trans Playmate.
Her mother is French-Moroccan and her father is Algerian. She grew up in Paris.
Assigned male at birth, she made a transition from the age of 16, first in secret by obtaining hormones on the black market. She reveals her gender dysphoria to her parents a year later and receives support from them. On her 18th birthday, she undergoes gender reassignment surgery, stating that it is not a "transition" but "a true living reincarnation of herself".
In October 2017, Cooper Hefner, son of Playboy founder Hugh Hefner, announces that Rau would be the "Playmate of the Month" in the November/December 2017 issue, making her the first openly transgender woman to be presented in this way. He likens Rau's choice to her father's decision regarding Jennifer Jackson, the first African-American woman to appear in Playboy as a Playmate in 1965. Rau sees the choice of the magazine as an act of activism for the LGBTQ cause
In 2017, she began an acting career with a minor role in the film The Success Award by Teddy Lussi-Modeste. In 2019, she played the role of Marcia in the Canal+ television series Vernon Subutex, adapted from the novels by Virginie Despentes. Since her coming out she has become one of the most charismatic advocates of the transgender community.
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