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transgender political organizing  

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  • Transgender people, individuals whose self-identification and/or expression challenges traditional notions of “male” and “female,” have been formally organizing since the early 1950s, following the international news coverage accorded to Christine Jorgensen for being the first person from the United States publicly known to have had a “sex change.” With transgender people as a whole becoming increasingly visible during the past 50 years, particularly since the early 1990s, political organizing in transgender communities has greatly expanded and diversified. The proliferation of local groups throughout the United States has led to the development of several national organizations and the growth of movements for transgender rights and for an end to violence against transgender people. [Source: Encyclopedia of Gender and Society; Transgender Political Organizing]

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