A Trans Rights Timeline

A Trans Rights Timeline. .

"How many years has it taken to realize that we are all brothers and sisters and human beings in the human race?" , -Marsha P. Johnson

, The transgender rights movement is intertwined with others, here are some of its milestones, 1959 | Cooper Do-Nuts , A crowd at a doughnut shop in Los Angeles, CA prevents police from harassing and arresting transgender and gay customers., 1964 | Dewey's Lunch Counter , In Philadelphia, PA, local Black and gender non-conforming teenagers and members of the Janus Society stage a sit-in that forces the restaurant to drop its policy of refusing to serve gay and trans people., 1965 | Gay Mardi Gras , Despite police pressure, a San Francisco, CA organization puts on a drag ball. After arrests are made, the organizers win a trial against the police, with help from allies and the American Civil Liberties Union., 1966 | Compton's Cafeteria Riot , Trans women, drag queens, gay hustlers, and queer street youth fight back when police raid a popular late-night restaurant where they regularly gather in San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhood., 1969 | Stonewall Rebellion , Members of the TLGBQ+ community, including Marsha P. Johnson, Sylvia Rivera, and Stormé DeLaverie, clash with the police for several days around the Stonewall Inn, a bar in New York, NY frequented by TLGBQ+ customers., 1969 | Queens Liberation Front , Lee Brewster founds the Queens Liberation Front in New York, NY in response to the prejudices that gender non-conforming persons face., 1970 | STAR House , Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera create STAR House in New York, NY, a safe house for trans youth. STAR (now known as STARR: Strategic Trans Alliance For Radical Reform) is an activist organization., 1976 | M.T. v. J.T. , In a case before the Superior Court of New Jersey, judges rule that transgender people can marry based on their gender identity, regardless of their gender at birth., 1993 | Minnesota Milestone , Minnesota becomes the first state in America to ban employment discrimination based on perceived gender identity., 1999 | Remembrance , Trans activist Gwendolyn Ann Smith starts the Remembering Our Dead web project and annual Transgender Day of Remembrance in San Francisco, CA, which quickly spreads to other cities., 2000 | Jean Doe v. Bell , Foster teen Jean Doe acquires a New York State Supreme Court order that forces her boys-home residence to allow her to dress according to her gender identity., 2012 | Kylar Broadus testifies , Founder of the Trans People of Color Coalition, Kylar Broadus becomes the first trans person to testify before the U.S. Senate when he does so in support of the Employee Non-Discrimination Act., 2014 | Transgender Tipping Point , Transgender actress Lavern Cox appears on the cover of the June 9th edition of Time Magazine. The interview with her inside is titled, "The Transgender Tipping Point: America's Next Civil Rights Frontier.", 2015 | Task Force , In the U.S. Congress, the House Equality Caucus announces a new Transgender Equality Task Force to develop legislation protecting transgender people., 2015 | The President Acknowledges Trans People , In his State of the Union Address, Barack Obama becomes the first U.S. President to acknowledge transgender people. "We do these things not only because they're right," he says, "but because they make us safer.", 2016 | Gavin Grimm wins , Virginia teenager Gavin Grimm sues his high school for the right to use a bathroom corresponding with his gender identity. The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rules in Grimm's favor., 2018 | Welcome, Andrea Jenkins , In Minneapolis, MN, Andrea Jenkins becomes the first openly transgender Black woman elected to City Council, making her the first to serve in any public office in America., 2019 | GENDA Passes , After years of activism on the issue, the New York State Assembly passes the Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act, protecting trans people of all ages in school and the workplace., 2019 | Trans Visibility March , More than 1,500 people in Washington, D.C. march down Pennsylvania Avenue from Freedom Plaza to demonstrate against hate and discrimination aimed at trans people., 2020 | Workplace Non-Discrimination , The U.S. Supreme Court rules that workplace protection under the 1964 Civil Rights Act apply to gay and transgender employees., 2021 | Rachel Levine and Sarah McBride , Sarah McBride becomes the first openly trans state senator (Delaware), and Rachel Levine the first openly trans federal official, as Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services.