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The U.S. passes municipal ordinances that prevent men and women from appearing in public “in a dress not belonging to his or her sex.” (Stryker, 39)

“Between 1848-1900 thirty-four cities in twenty-one states passed prohibitions against cross-dressing.” (Sears, 3).

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William Dorsey “The Queen” Swann, who was formerly enslaved, is arrested in a Washington D.C. police raid during one of the cross-dressing balls he held throughout the late 1800s. Thirteen people–most of them Black freedmen–were arrested on vagrancy charges, while others escaped. Local newspapers reported on the raid describing “men in female attire” and described the event as a “drag party” in one of the earliest uses of the term.

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“A group of New York androgynes led by…Roland Reeves” formed a club called The Cercle Hermaphrodites, based on their desire to “unite for defense against the world’s bitter persecution.” (47) This is the first known organization in the US dedicated to what might now be called transgender social justice issues.

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Magnus Hirschfeld co-founds the Scientific-Humanitarian Committee– generally seen as the first organization in the world devoted to social reform on behalf of sexual minorities. The organization’s motto was “Per scientiam ad justitiam” (through science to justice).

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Hirschfeld writes The Transvestites– “the first book-length treatment of transgender phenomena” (47) that explores cross-dressing and transvestism. The book includes first person narratives, and works to distinguish transvestism from other forms of sexual and/or gender variance such as homosexuality.

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San Francisco repeals an anti-cross-dressing ordinance, but police continue arresting gender-non-conforming people for loitering, disorderly conduct, and morality laws.

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Henry Gerber, inspired by Magnus Hirschfield’s work, founded the Society for Human Rights in Chicago– the first gay rights organization in the United States.

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Dora Richter undergoes the first documented MTF genital transformation, under the care of Hirschfeld. Richter’s case enabled the Institute for Sexual Science to explore the effects of testosterone on sexuality and the body.

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Conferences and work on sexual reform are canceled due to the rise of fascism in Europe. Hitler denounces Hirschfeld as “the most dangerous Jew in Germany.” (47)

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Hirschfeld's Institute in Berlin is ransacked and his vast library of materials is burned by students of the Nazi German Student Association.

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In one of the earliest known cases of its kind, Barbara Ann Richards/Wilcox successfully petitions the Los Angeles Superior Court to change her legal name. Richards told the court, “I decided that I was, in every essential way, a woman, and I was determined that in justice to myself I should petition the court for feminine status.”

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Lucy Hicks Anderson, who lived as female since childhood, is convicted of fraud and perjury in a court in Ventura County, California for signing a marriage license as a woman and accepting government payments for the wives of soldiers. Her trial marks a significant intensification in the use of medical expertise as the primary adjudicator of sex and gender.

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Ebony publishes “The Man Who Lived 30 Years as a Woman” in October 1951. It reported on the story of Georgia Black, a Black woman who lived and died in Florida. Black was only found to have been a trans woman after her death, when the county physician who performed her autopsy leaked this information to the press.

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Cooper’s Donuts served police during the day and opened the doors to trans and other excluded people at night. One night, the police attempted to arrest a few people whose perceived gender did not match the one on their driver's licenses. John Rechy, and others, fought back; Rechy writes, “[The officers] fled into their car, called backups and soon the street was bustling with disobedience. Gay people danced about the cars.”

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The first issue of Transvestia magazine, founded by Virginia Prince, is published, with the journal’s objectives being: “to provide EXPRESSION for those interested in the subjects of exotic and unusual fashion; to provide INFORMATION for those who, through ignorance, condemn that which they do not understand; to provide EDUCATION for those who see evil where none exists.”

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Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a Black trans woman and veteran of the Stonewall uprising, is incarcerated at Dannemora Prison and meets some of those involved in the Attica Uprising. Her imprisonment and subsequent activism explicitly linked trans liberation to prison abolition, anti-racist struggle, and survivor-led organizing.

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Writer, musician and trans lesbian Beth Elliot was harassed and pushed out of performing and speaking at the West Coast Lesbian Conference, despite being invited. This moment exposed fractures in feminist spaces around the inclusion of trans women and marks a pivotal consolidation of TERF ideologies.

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Minneapolis becomes the first city to pass an ordinance prohibiting discrimination against trans people. This ordinance protected those “having or projecting a self-image not associated with one’s biological maleness or biological femaleness.”

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Leslie Feinberg publishes Transgender Liberation: A Movement Whose Time Has Come, one of the first attempts to map the history of trans communities in the United States.

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Phyllis Frye, the first openly trans judge in the United States, creates the International Conference on Transgender Law and Employment Policy, which holds six annual conferences.

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At a pride parade in Phoenix, Arizona, the Trans Pride flag is shown for the first time.

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CeCe McDonald is arrested and jailed after surviving an attack by Dean Schmitz, a white man who reportedly bore a Swastika tattoo on his chest. The attack and McDonald’s trial received extensive media coverage and fomented stronger abolitionist demands and protection for survivors and incarcerated trans people. McDonald was released from prison in 2014 and continues to advocate for abolition and trans liberation.

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The Department of Health and Human Services rules that Medicare must now cover sex reassignment surgery. This ruling came after it was decided that the exclusion was not reasonable based on updated medical evidence and expert testimony, It is important to note that it does not guarantee automatic coverage for all procedures.

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The Riley Gaines Act was signed into law in Georgia, banning trans student athletes from participating in sports that align with their gender. This was passed despite strong evidence to the contrary, and despite the fact that there are currently no openly trans athletes participating in student sports in the state.
(see our video “Trans Sports Bans”)

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Christine Jorgensen’s “sex-change” surgery makes news headlines around the world, with the New York Daily’s reading, “Ex-GI Becomes Blonde Beauty: Operations Transform Bronx Youth.”

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James McHarris, who was also known as Annie Lee Grant, was arrested during a traffic stop in Kosciusko, Mississippi. Despite receiving a minor sentence, McHarris/Grant became the subject of multiple publications in the Black media, which focused on “masquerading” as a man and working in masculine jobs.

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Ava Betty Brown testifies defiantly in a Chicago courtroom—“everything I own is in the name of Betty Brown. . . . If I am a man, I don’t know it” after being arrested for “female impersonation.” Unlike Jorgensen, she is denied access to surgery in Denmark. Her story was published later that year in the Chicago Daily Defender (Snorton 161-162).

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UCLA opens the Gender Identity Research Clinic. Initially a discussion group among doctors, the clinic focused primarily on addressing the needs of trans individuals, offering gender affirming surgeries and a place for discussing issues surrounding gender identity.

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The term “transgenderism” is coined by psychiatrist John F Oliven, who argued that sexuality did not account for the “all consuming belief that [transsexuals] are women who by some incredible error were given the bodies of men.” The term began to see a dramatic rise in popularity over the next few decades, and brought together a wide range of experiences and identities with overlapping needs and goals.

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Compton’s Cafeteria Riot took place in San Francisco, and was an act of collective resistance by trans women and queer people against police violence. Sparked by routine harassment and brutality from law enforcement, the uprising spilled into the streets and marked a refusal to be criminalized and erased.

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The Transsexual Phenomenon, written by Harry Benjamin, is published and examines transsexualism not as a physiological issue, but as a somatic condition that should be treated through medicine.

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Mario Martino founded The Labyrinth Foundation Counseling Service in New York, devoted to MTF trans people and provided a postoperative “halfway house.”

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The Stonewall Riot began in the early hours, when queer patrons at the Stonewall Inn fought back against a violent police raid. This ignited several nights of resistance as community members refused to disperse. Stonewall was not the beginning of queer resistance, but has become a national flashpoint of defiance, community power, and the pivotal role that trans and gender-nonconforming people played in demanding freedom.

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Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P Johnson, both of whom were on the frontlines of Stonewall, establish STAR (Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries), which provided shelter, support, and political advocacy to trans and queer youth. STAR embodied a vision of resistance, center trans’ people’s material needs as a form of resistance.

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TAO (Transsexual/Transvestite Action Organization) is founded by Angela Douglas, with the purpose of supporting and amplifying trans people, especially trans women who were left out of feminist or women’s liberation causes.

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The Trans Liberation manifesto is published in Trans Liberation Newsletter.

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The New York Supreme Court rules in favor of Renee Richards, allowing her to play at the United States Open as a woman. The United States Tennis Open had originally banned her from participating. This legal battle and Richards subsequent career sparked an ongoing discussion of trans people’s access.

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The Transsexual Rights Committee was established by the ACLU to ensure that their civil liberties agenda included the struggles and goals of trans people. The Human Rights Campaign is founded by Steve Endean, and continues to focus on education and advocacy for the trans community.

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Over the next two decades, the AIDS epidemic would display the slow response, underfunding and neglect, and moral stigma and discrimination of governmental and social responses, but it would also demonstrate the activism and advocacy of LQBTQ+ communities, as they built coalitions across them. (fix)

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The APA classifies “transgender phenomena” as “gender identity disorder” in the DSM in an effort to reduce stigma. However, there are still critiques that this classification pathologized an identity. (Stryker, “Transgender Activism”)

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Sandy Stone publishes her landmark essay, “The Empire Strikes Back: A Posttranssexual Manifesto”, which examines how trans women have been historically been seen, studied, and treated by the Western medical complex, arguing that they have been excluded from participating in their own discourse.

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Minnesota becomes the first state to explicitly prohibit discrimination against trans people in areas like housing, employment, and public accommodations.

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Gwen Smith launches Remembering our Dead, a crowd-sourced website used to document anti-trans violence across the country. The project eventually leads to the start of the annual Transgender Day of Remembrance, co-founded by Smith, Nancy Nangeroni, and Jahaira DeAlto to commemorate the murder of Black trans women, Rita Hester and Chanelle Pickett. The first observance takes place in San Francisco and Boston in November 1999 and continues annually to this day.

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On June 20th, 2000, Amanda Milan is murdered by Dwayne McCuller and Eugene Celestine in New York City. Her death sparks widespread protests both in New York and throughout the country with a focus on the needs of trans people of color.

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The Transgender Law Center—a civil rights organization that advocates for trans communities—opens its first office in San Francisco.

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California becomes the first state to mandate transgender healthcare coverage with the Insurance Gender Nondiscrimination Act. The Transgender Law Center continues to help individuals appeal denials of coverage and work to ensure that insurance companies comply with state and federal policies.

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The U.S. Congress holds its first ever hearing on discrimination against trans people in the workplace taking testimony from retired US Army Colonel Diane Schroer who was denied a job at the Library of Congress after disclosing her trans identity.

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International Trans Day of Visibility is founded by Michigan-based trans activist, Rachel Crandall Crocker.

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The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) is updated, replacing the term “gender identity disorder” with “gender dysphoria.”

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Duke University Press publishes Transgender Studies Quarterly, the first academic journal to focus on trans studies as a field, with the stated mission of “foster[ing] a vigorous conversation among scholars, artists, activists, and others that examines how ‘transgender’ comes into play as a category.”

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The first bills explicitly prohibiting insurance coverage of gender affirming care are introduced. The bills ranged from restricting insurance companies, to prohibiting medical professionals from providing gender-affirming care. They demonstrate a new, concerted effort to restrict healthcare access for trans people.

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Georgia introduces the first bill to limit the participation of athletes based on biological “sex”. While it didn’t pass, it served as a blueprint for subsequent bills.

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The trans military ban goes into effect.

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Pose, a TV drama featuring a large cast of trans actors in lead roles, brings attention to the 80s/90s ballroom scene and the AIDS crisis.

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Supreme Court rules that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 extends employment protections to trans people. Title VII of the Civil Rights Act prohibits employment discrimination based on sex, sexual orientation, and gender identity.

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Trans lawmaker and Montana Rep. Zooey Zephyr is censured after protesting anti-trans legislation, and draws national attention.

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Increasing mental health and medical research supports the efficacy and necessity of gender-affirming care, countering growing misinformation and disinformation in the public sphere.

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The 70s were characterized by more visible organizing post-Stonewall, with people like Sylvia Rivera, Marsha P Johnson, Angela Douglas, and Beth Elliott pushing for inclusion within feminist and gay liberation spaces. Grassroots organizing centered on housing, mutual aid, and direct action. Early, and often inconsistent, legal pathways to name and gender marker changes began to develop. Newsletters and zines circulated in counterpublic networks while mainstream media continued to pathologize or criminalize trans people in their representations.

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The rise of AIDs activism like ACT UP brought many trans people into broader coalitions. The increased pathologization of trans identities under the diagnosis of “gender identity disorder” both enabled and constrained access to medical care. Critiques of the medical industrial complex challenged the medicine-centered approach to trans visibility. Anti-cross dressing laws and police profiling continued to harm trans people.

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A strong wave of trans activism emerged in the 90s, built on zines, community organizing and protest. Groups like Transexual Menace challenged media depictions and fought for inclusion in LGB rights movements. Anti-discrimination laws in some cities and states that included “gender identity” began to crop up. Legal advocacy grew around workplace rights and prison conditions. A rise of media visibility brought national attention to trans lives, often through narratives of violence and tragedy. Trans Studies emerged as a field and incorporated growing critiques of the medical-industrial complex. Tensions between assimilationist LGB politics and more radical queer and trans liberation grew.

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National trans advocacy organizations like the National Center for Transgender Equality and the Transgender Law Center emerged, many of which focused on reform and legal rights. Landmark policy efforts like the push for gender marker changes and non-discrimination policies in the workplace marked the legal efforts of the early 2000s. A growing, but limited, media presence of trans voices gave exposure. Anti-trans sentiment grew alongside increased visibility, evident in conservative policy pushes and messaging from the religious right.

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The “trans tipping point” era emerged, with rising public figures like Laverne Cox and Janet Mock challenging mainstream narrative of trans life. Major wins and setbacks in the legal arena included expanded healthcare access for trans people, the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”, and fights over bathroom bills and school access. Conservative lawmakers coalesced around the issues of bathrooms, sports, and healthcare, signaling a new phase of organized anti-trans legislation. Increased public awareness in this climate brought more support and more polarization. Trans youth became central figures in cultural and legal battles.

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The unprecedented visibility of the mid 2010s began to be challenged, as activists critiqued the centering of respectability and the exclusion of poor, disabled, Black and brown trans communities. While some states passed robust gender identity protections, others became pushing “bathroom bills”, school restrictions, and religious exemption laws. Despite the increased visibility, trans people, especially Black trans women, faced disproportionate violence and data on violence towards trans people gained mainstream attention. However, the 2016 election, marked in some part as a mandate on gender identity, marked a sharp rise in transphobic political rhetoric. The Trump administration rolled back healthcare protections, banned trans people from military service, and gutted civil rights guidance on school inclusion. The trans rights movement became more visibly connected with abolitionist, disability justice, and anti-racist efforts. Mutual aid, grassroots organizing, and direct action surged, especially after the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests. An unprecedented wave of anti-trans legislation (especially targeting youth) was introduced and passed in dozens of states. Trans-led legal organizations (TLDEF, ACLU, TGIJP) have challenged these laws in courts, with some federal judges blocking or striking down the most extreme policies. Misinformation campaigns surged online, using the rhetoric of protecting children to gain support. These coordinated campaigns have attempted to link trans rights to conspiracy and child abuse.

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Laverne Cox becomes the first trans person to appear on the cover of Time magazine and a few months later becomes the first trans person to be nominated for an Emmy. Cox’s appearance is often referred to as the beginning of a new era of increased trans visibility. 

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Leslie Feinberg publishes Stone Butch Blues advocating for transgender liberation through Marxist organizing.

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California enacts America’s first law protecting trans students with the passage of the School Success and Opportunity Act. The Act mandates that trans students have access to restrooms, locker rooms, and other sex-separated activities and spaces based on their gender identity.

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The U.S. passes municipal ordinances that prevent men and women from appearing in public “in a dress not belonging to his or her sex.” (Stryker, 39)

“Between 1848-1900 thirty-four cities in twenty-one states passed prohibitions against cross-dressing.” (Sears, 3).

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