: Decades before the 1969 Stonewall Uprising, trans individuals led resistance efforts, such as the 1959 Cooper Do-nuts Riot in Los Angeles and the 1966 Compton’s Cafeteria Riot in San Francisco.

: Iconic trans figures like Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera were central to the 1969 rebellion at the Stonewall Inn, which sparked the modern LGBT rights movement.

The transgender community currently faces what many advocates call a "crisis of political displacement" within the United States.