The French edition of the fashion monthly Vogue is to become the country’s first magazine to feature a transgender model on its cover.

Valentina Sampaio, a Brazilian, will appear in the April issue of Vogue Paris. It describes the 22-year-old model as a “femme fatale” who happened to be born a boy, saying she is the “glam standard-bearer of a cause that is on the march… in a post-gender world.”