Transgender rights.1960 Virginia Prince publishes the magazine Transvestia and in 1961 forms the national Foundation for Full Personality Expression for straight cross-dressers. 1966 Transgender transgender or transgendered adj. Transsexual. prostitutes rally against police in San Francisco's Tenderloin district. 1970 In response to the Stonewall riots, Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR) was a transgender activist organization founded in 1970 by Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera. It was the first political organization for transgender rights in the world. and the Transsexual/ Transvestite trans·ves·tite n. One who practices transvestism. transvestite Sexology A person with a compulsion to dress as a member of the other sex, which may be essential to maintaining an erection and achieving orgasm. See Transsexual. Action Organization are founded. 1975 Minneapolis becomes the first U.S. city to legally protect transgender people. 1986 Activist Lou Sullivan forms the San Francisco-based support group that would become FTM FTM Free Throws Made (basketball) FTM Family Tree Maker (Brøderbund) FTM Female to Male Transsexual FTM For The Moment FTM Fair to Midland (band) FTM Forgot to Mention International. 1992 The group Transgender Nation is formed in San Francisco, Activist Leslie Feinberg publishes Transgender Liberation: A Movement Whose Time Has Come. 1994 Riki Wilchins founds Transexual Noun 1. transexual - a person who has undergone a sex change operation transsexual unusual person, anomaly - a person who is unusual 2. transexual - a person whose sexual identification is entirely with the opposite sex transsexual Menace. A year later Wilchins helps launch the Gender Public Advocacy Coalition. 2001 San Francisco becomes the first U.S. city to grant its employees health coverage for medical needs related to being transgender. 2005 The U.S. House of Representatives passes to the Senate a transgender-inclusive federal hate crimes law. |
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