Over 2.8 million individuals in the U.S. identify as transgender, including approximately 724,000 youth (ages 13–17).
Prior to the 1969 Stonewall riots, transvestite (an older, often pejorative term for cross-dressers and early trans people) and butch/femme bar cultures overlapped significantly. Figures like Marsha P. Johnson (a self-identified transvestite and gay liberation activist) and Sylvia Rivera (a trans woman and co-founder of STAR—Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries) were central to the riots. However, mainstream gay liberation groups, seeking respectability, often marginalized trans people, viewing them as too radical or damaging to the public image of homosexuality. tube shemale revenge exclusive
Transgender and gender non-conforming individuals were central to the early, most radical acts of resistance against state-sanctioned harassment. Early Resistance Over 2
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