Transgender rights movement

The transgender rights movement is a movement to promote the legal status of transgender people and to eliminate discrimination and violence against transgender people regarding housing, employment, public accommodations, education, and health care. A major goal of transgender activism is to allow changes to identification documents to conform with a person's current gender identity without the need for gender-affirming surgery or any medical requirements, which is known as gender self-identification.^[1]^[2]^[3] It is part of the broader LGBT rights movements.

In popular culture[edit]

Major events[edit]

Carey Purcell states that these moments have been key to bringing awareness to the transgender movement and fight for transgender rights.^[67]

the first openly transgender woman to be elected to office in Venezuela.

Tamara Adrián

American Baptist minister and LGBTQ activist who is a transgender woman^[108]

Donnie Anderson

Spanish actress and politician who was the first openly transgender person to participate in Spain's legislature.^[109]

Carla Antonelli

Cambridge, UK mayor who is also married to a transgender partner.^[110]

Jenny Bailey

former New Zealand politician who was the first openly transgender mayor and the first transgender politician to become member of Parliament in the world.^[111]

Georgina Beyer

British model and trans activist; she became an international cultural focus due to her early death.^[112]

Elie Che

Canadian sociologist and founder of the Transgender Archives and Moving Trans History Forward conferences.^[113]^[114]

Aaron Devor

a Polish politician and the first openly transgender person to be elected as an MP in Europe.^[115]

Anna Grodzdka

the first transgender person who ran for office in Canada.^[116]

Jamie Lee Hamilton

Hawaii's Civil Rights Commissioner and former member of the Board of Education.^[117]

Kim Coco Iwamoto

and Tomoya Hosoda, Japan's first openly transgender politicians.^[118]

Aya Kamikawa

transgender rights activist and educator in Indiana.

Kit Malone

the first transgender person in India to be elected for public office.^[119]^[120]

Shabnam Mausi

Delaware State Senator from Senate District 1, is the first openly transgender person elected to any state Senate in the United States in 2020.

Sarah McBride

Canadian politician, lawyer, and transgender rights activist.

Micheline Montreuil

Luisa Revilla Urcia, the first openly transgender woman to be elected to office in Uruguay.

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the first openly transgender woman to be elected to Congress in the Philippines.^[122]

Geraldine Roman

US LGBTQ activist who ran for Nevada Assembly as a Republican.^[123]

Lauren Scott

US Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Operational Energy and the highest ranking openly transgender appointee in the United States.^[124]

Amanda Simpson

former member of the European Parliament.^[125]

Nikki Sinclaire

the first openly transgender woman to be elected to office in Uruguay.

Michelle Suaréz

Colorado State Representative from HD27, is the first openly transgender person elected in 2018 and reelected in 2020.

Brianna Titone

a US democratic socialist politician and Vice Chair of the Arizona Democratic Party.^[126]

Brianna Westbrook

A list of notable transgender activists, listed in alphabetical order by surname.