--- title: First Transgender Woman on Cover of Women's Running Magazine description: Amelia Gapin is the first trans woman to be featured on the cover of Women's Running magazine, as the publication's July cover star. canonical: https://time.com/4367212/running-magazine-first-trans-woman-cover/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-06-13T20:46:11.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:46:36.648Z og:title: Meet the First Trans Woman on the Cover of 'Women's Running' og:description: Meet Amelia Gapin og:url: https://time.com/4367212/running-magazine-first-trans-woman-cover/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4cae2722d0391353/69889798ab6d770bec6aa0bc/amelia-gapin-womens-running-magazine.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2000 og:image:height: 1125 og:image:alt: Amelia-Gapin-Womens-Running-magazine og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Meet the First Trans Woman on the Cover of 'Women's Running' twitter:description: Meet Amelia Gapin twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4cae2722d0391353/69889798ab6d770bec6aa0bc/amelia-gapin-womens-running-magazine.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Meet the First Trans Woman Featured on the Cover of 'Women's Running' Magazine > Sponsored content. 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On Monday, the publication debuted the forthcoming cover with a photograph of Amelia Gapin, a 33-year-old software engineer at Tumblr and the co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of MyTransHealth, a group dedicated to helping [trans and gender nonconforming people find healthcare](http://time.com/4329609/transgender-discrimination-obamacare-healthcare/) that fits their needs. Gapin told [_People_](http://www.people.com/article/transgender-womans-running-cover) that she sees this first as a positive step for [transgender women](http://time.com/4352201/talleen-abu-hanna-first-miss-trans-israel/). “For me to be on the cover of a women’s magazine is kind of a sense of validation that other people are seeing transgender women as women,” Gapin said. “And having _Women’s Running_ want to put me on the cover says a lot about how they see transgender people.” Likewise, _Women’s Running_ editor-in-chief Jessie Sebor couldn’t be happier to have Gapin as the magazine’s latest cover girl. “Amelia’s bravery, openness and tough-runner spirit makes her a wonderful role model for _Women’s Running_‘s growing community — she’s certainly an inspiration to everyone on our team, myself included,” Sebor said. Gapin began transitioning four years ago with hormone treatments, but decided to undergo gender reassignment surgery in recent months in order to qualify for the Boston Marathon as a woman. See Gapin’s cover below.  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