When you stop to think about the real heroes of the LGBT community, the first people that come to mind are the activists - those who protest long and hard to repeal and make new laws. But sometimes, it doesn't take a new foundation or vigorous debate. Sometimes, to change the face of public perception forever, all it takes is one simple stance and the courage to follow it through.
Jenna Talackova was that woman. Her life was always going to be an interesting one, born in Vancouver to a Babine First Nation mother and Czech father, and things only got more interesting when throughout her early childhood she experienced a keen sense of gender dysphoria. She began her transition at age 14, and completed reassignment surgery at age 19. Then, when she was 22, she changed the world.