Portal:Transgender

This article addresses the history of transgender people in the United States from prior to Western contact until the present. There are a few historical accounts of transgender people that have been present in the land now known as the United States at least since the early 1600s. Before Western contact, some Native American tribes had third gender people whose social roles varied from tribe to tribe. People dressing and living differently from the gender roles typical of their sex assigned at birth and contributing to various aspects of American history and culture have been documented from the 17th century to the present day. In the 20th and 21st centuries, advances in gender-affirming surgery as well as transgender activism have influenced transgender life and the popular perception of transgender people in the United States.

Chelsea Elizabeth Manning (born December 17, 1987) is an American activist and whistleblower. She is a former United States Army soldier who was convicted by court-martial in July 2013 of violations of the Espionage Act and other offenses, after disclosing to WikiLeaks nearly 750,000 classified, or unclassified but sensitive, military and diplomatic documents. These documents include the video Collateral Murder showing U.S. soldiers laugh during a firefight where they kill civilians and reporters and included more accurate, larger estimates of civilian casualties from the Iraq and Afghan wars than publicly available. She was imprisoned from 2010 until 2017 when her sentence was commuted. Manning was jailed again for 62 days in 2019 for her continued refusal to testify before a grand jury against Julian Assange. A trans woman, Manning released a statement in 2013 explaining she had a female gender identity since childhood and wanted to be known as Chelsea Manning. She also expressed a desire to begin hormone replacement therapy.

• ... that home repair and maintenance educator Mercury Stardust and her friend Jory Vizcaino have raised more than $4 million for transgender healthcare through their TikTok-A-Thon for Trans Healthcare?
• ... that Precious Brady-Davis and her husband were the first transgender couple to have their gender identities listed correctly on an Illinois birth certificate?
• ... that The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes discusses the history of transgender man Ewan Forbes and his 1968 legal case to inherit his family's baronetcy that was silenced from public records?
• ... that The Gospel According to Jesus, Queen of Heaven, Jo Clifford's 2009 play featuring Jesus as a trans woman, was called an "offensive abuse of Christian beliefs" by Archbishop Mario Conti?
• ... that transgender activist Ky Schevers transitioned to male, detransitioned to female, then retransitioned as transmasculine and genderqueer?
• ... that the 2021 film West Side Story was banned in the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Oman, and Bahrain, likely due to the transgender character Anybodys?

• 3 - Nemo (1999), Swiss non-binary singer
• 9 – Sarah McBride (1990), American transgender rights activist, politician and author
• 11 – Quinn (1995), Canadian transgender non-binary soccer player and Olympic medallist
• 12 – Cara Delevingne (1992), English gender-fluid model, singer, and actress
• 12 – Bex Taylor-Klaus (1994), American non-binary actor
• 13 – Jin Xing (1967), Chinese dancer, choreographer and actress
• 14 – Arca (1989), Venezuelan singer, songwriter, producer
• 17 – Rachel Pollack (1945), American author
• 19 – Renée Richards (1934), American tennis player and ophthalmologist
• 20 – Demi Lovato (1992), American non-binary singer and performer
• 23 – Coccinelle (1931–2006), French actress, entertainer and singer
• 24 – Marsha P. Johnson (1945–1992), American transgender rights activist
• 27 – Kim Petras (1992), German singer songwriter
• 28 – Andreja Pejić (1991), Bosnian-Australian transgender model and actress
• 29 – Candis Cayne (1971), American actress
• 31 – Caroline Cossey (1954), British model
• 31 – Sara Ramirez (1975), Mexican-American non-binary actress and singer

• ... that African-American gay and transgender youth Ali Forney, once homeless himself, had a homeless LGBT youth center in New York City named after him for his work helping other youths?
• ... that non-binary transgender actor Indya Moore became the first transgender person to be featured on the cover of the US version of Elle magazine when they were featured in May 2019?
• ... that Jennie June (b. 1874), one of the earliest transgender people to publish an autobiography in the US, published the first and second volumes in 1918 and 1922, and wrote a third volume which was discovered in 2010?

I took a certain pleasure in informing the gender clinic that even though their program told me I could not live as a Gay man, it looks like I'm going to die like one.