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What is 1969
The year of the Stonewall Riots in New York.
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Who is Sarah McBride?
She was elected to the Delaware State Senate in November 2020.
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What is "gender non-conforming"?
GNC, referring to gender identity or presentation that defies gender expectations.
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What is Trans Lifeline?
This organization provides a crisis hotline run by and for trans people - the only one specific to the trans community.
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What is transition?
This word describes the social, medical, and legal changes a trans person may choose to undergo to affirm their gender.
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Who are Marsha P Johnson and Sylvia Rivera?
These two trans women of color who co-founded the Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries to help homeless young drag queens, gay youth, and trans women.
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Who is Andrea Jenkins?
She became the first black openly transgender woman elected to public office in the US after being elected in 2017.
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What is "assigned female at birth" and "assigned male at birth"?
AFAB and AMAB, referring to the gender one is assigned on their birth certificate.
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What is TranSanta?
This Instagram account promotes gift registries for trans, queer, and intersex youth during the holiday season so you can give gifts anonymously and safely.
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What is the sex-gender binary?
This sex-gender system classifies two distinct, opposite forms of male masculinity and female femininity.
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What is Compton's Cafeteria Riot?
Trans women and drag queens fought back against harassment, discrimination, and police brutality in this 1966 San Francisco riot.
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Who is Mauree Turner?
They were elected to the Oklahoma legislature in November 2020, and is the first non-binary lawmaker in the US and the first Muslim member of the Oklahoma legislature.
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What is "trans for trans"?
T4T, referring to attraction and relationships exclusively between trans people.
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What is Southerners on New Ground (SONG)?
This organization serving the LGBTQIA+ community focuses its work in the southern US through community organizing for economic and racial justice.
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What is Gender Studies?
This interdisciplinary field focuses on the complex interaction of gender with other identity markers such as race, ethnicity, sexuality, nation, and religion.
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Who is We'wha?
This Zuni Native American weaver acted as a cultural ambassador to missionaries, anthropologists, and the US government, including Grover Cleveland.
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Who is Petra de Sutter?
As the deputy prime minister of Belgium, she became the most senior trans politician in Europe in October 2020.
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What is "two-spirit"?
2S, referring to the umbrella term used by some Native people to describe those who fulfill a traditional third-gender ceremonial and social role.
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What is the Okra Project?
Based in New York, this grassroots mutual aid collective provides home cooked, healthy, and culturally specific meals and resources to Black trans people.
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What is intersectionality?
This term, coined by Kimberle Crenshaw, is an analytical framework for understanding how multiple aspects of a person's identity combine in different ways.
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Who is Miss Major Griffin-Gracy (or simply Miss Major)?
She is the Black trans woman who participated in the Stonewall Riots and served as the original executive director for the Trans Gender Variant Intersex Justice Project.
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Who is Jay Irwin?
He was the first trans man to be elected in the US by winning a seat on the School Board of Ralston, Nebraska in 2016.
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What is "trans-exclusionary radical feminist" (or "feminism")?
TERF, referring to someone who defends their transphobia with "feminism."
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What is Trans Empowerment Project?
This organization was founded in 2016 in Knoxville, Tennessee, and features many programs to help bring trans folks out of crisis and into empowerment.
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What is transfeminism?
This movement was coined by Emi Koyama as "a movement by and for trans women who view their liberation to be intrinsically linked to the liberation of all women and beyond."
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