reminder that trans men also fought for your rights and refusal to acknowledge this is tantamount to denying historical fact
Some sources for those who may not know:
The legendary trans activist's personal writing is a radical gift.
Lou Sullivan was arguably one of the first publicly gay trans men, known for campaigning for gay trans men to access transition healthcare.
Other US (+ CA) trans men you should know about:
Steve Dain, whose public transition led to him being fired from his job as a teacher. Trans men in the Bay Area would go on a pilgrimage to meet when when they started their transition.
Jamison Green, who took over FTM International and it's newsletter after Lou's death
Reed Erickson, who used his inherited wealth to bankroll early LGBT movements (and also did other wild rich people shit). His foundation "helped to support, both through direct financial contributions and through contributions of human and material resources, almost every aspect of work being done in the 1960s and 1970s in the field of transsexualism in the US and, to a lesser degree, in other countries."
Alexander John Goodrum, who founded TGNet Arizona and helped pass Tuscon's nondiscrimination ordinance. In 2001 he wrote "Gender, Identity Politics, and Eating Our Own," an essay on infighting in the trans community.
Rupert Raj, who started some of Canada's earliest trans advocacy organizations
Kylar Broadus, the first openly trans person to testify before the Senate
Pauli Murray also deserves more recognition; he was a Black feminist legal scholar who did invaluable work for the Civil Rights Movement. He never transitioned, having lived much of his life before trans (and especially FTM) treatment was standardized and accessible. He was labeled schizophrenic by doctors for seeking testosterone and testing to see if he was intersex, to explain his gender identity.
Additionally, while they identified as women, both Leslie Feinberg and Stormé DeLarverie were masculine people who considered themselves under the umbrella of "transgender" and did invaluable work for our community.
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