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Christine Jorgensen Creates Awareness of Trans issues
Christine Jorgensen was the first woman to have sex reassignment surgery. She went from man to woman. After high school she ( as a man) was drafted to World War 2. After she got back she heard about the surgery. She then traveled to Europe and in Copenhagen, Denmark, obtained special permission to undergo a series of operations starting in 1951. -
Reed Erickson Starts EFF
Reed Erickson transitioned from female to male. After his transition he started the Erickson Educational Foundation, which their goal was to provide assistance and support in areas where human potential was limited by adverse physical, mental, or social conditions, or where the scope of research was too new, controversial or imaginative to receive traditionally oriented -
Stonewall Riots
The stonewall riots were a series of spontaneous, violent demonstrations by members of the LGBTQ+ community against a police raid that took place in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn, located in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. They are widely considered to constitute the single most important event leading to the gay liberation movement and the modern fight for LGBT rights in the United States. -
Sweden Legalizes Gender re-assignment surgery
Sweden became the first country in the world to allow transgender persons to change their legal gender post-sex reassignment surgery in 1972 while transvestism was declassified as an illness. -
First TDOR
The Transgender Day of Remembrance was set aside to memorialize those who were killed due to anti-transgender hatred or prejudice.The Transgender Day of Remembrance serves several purposes. It raises public awareness of hate crimes against transgender people, an action that current media doesn’t perform. Day of Remembrance publicly mourns and honors the lives of our brothers and sisters who might otherwise be forgotten. -
Transgender Equality Fund
With a committed board of directors, a volunteer staff of one, and donated office space, they set out to provide a powerful transgender advocacy presence in Washington, D.C. -
Mrs. Universe 2012
A Canadian beauty pageant contestant was disqualified when the Miss Universe Canada organizers discovered she was transgender. She was devastated by the decision and wanted a clear change in the rules. -
Transgender Hawaiian Candidate Attacked for Gender Identity
Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu is a trans woman running inH awaii. If elected to the Office of Hawaiian Affairs Board of Trustees, she would not be the first transgender elected in the state. A respected leader and educator, she has done much for marriage equality and trans rights in the state. Many things have been published recently on how consistent could a dude be if he thinks he is a female. -
Bathroom Bill
LGBTQ+ advocates are renewing their calls for protests after North Carolina legislators ended late Friday without making changes to the law, which requires transgender people to use public bathrooms and changing facilities based on the sex stated on their birth certificate. -
Target Adds Non-gender Bathroom
The bathroom can be used by any customer who needs some privacy, including parents that have small children of a different gender or those who are uncomfortable with a public bathroom in which a transgender person is allowed.
