Trans History
A series of queer rights riots which took place in 1969 in New York City.
What are the Stonewall Riots?
The name of our organization.
What is Louisiana Trans Advocates at LSU?
An actor, known for roles in Juno and The Umbrella Academy, who came out as a transgender man in 2020.
Who is Elliot Page?
A widely recognized pan-Indigenous nonbinary gender identity.
What is two-spirit?
A term for recognizing that a person you have met is transgender, particularly when said person is attempting to appear cisgender.
What is clocking?
A singer, actress, and activist, most known for becoming the first transgender woman in the United States to attain fame for her gender reassignment surgery.
Who is Christine Jorgensen?
An LSU facility that, among many things, provides access to free contraceptives.
What is the Women’s Center?
The 2019 television show often considered a breakout acting role for transgender actress Hunter Schafer.
What is Euphoria?
A category of nonbinary gender linked to concepts entirely separate from traditional binary gender identity e.g. catgender.
What is a xenogender?
A trans person who does not know that they are trans.
What is an egg?
First used in 1851, this word almost became known as the English gender neutral pronoun and is the first documented English neopronoun.
What is thon?
The location of an on campus mental health clinic where services are covered by your student health fee.
What is the Student Health Center?
The character played by the late Tim Curry in the cult classic film Rocky Horror Picture Show.
Who is Dr. Frank N. Furter?
This Albanian third gender has become less common over time as women have gained more rights.
What is virgjinesha / “sworn virgin”?
A colloquial term for image boards, particularly 4Chan, when used by trans people.
What is 4Tran?
The first American trans man to publicly identify as gay, before the diagnostic requirements for gender dysphoria came to include gay trans men.
Who is Lou Sullivan?
The website you can go to to change your preferred name in the LSU system.
What is Workday?
According to Ray Geiger, this character in the main cast of She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (2018-2020) was designed to be read as a transgender woman, though it was never made canon.
Who is Perfuma?
In this African country, the Igbo had a practice of allowing daughters or wives to be treated socially as sons or husbands.
What is Nigeria?
The day on which Trans Day of Visibility occurs.
When is March 31st?
The full name of Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera’s organization which supported the transgender community, typically referred to with the acronym S.T.A.R.
What was Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries?
A local Baton Rouge health clinic which provides sliding scale low-cost access to HRT.
What is OpenHealth?
Released by Vocaloid artist Teniwoha in 2020, this song about gender dysphoria has 54 million views on YouTube and has its own manga adaptation.
What is Villain?
An Indian third gender concept linked to femininity, acting as a guru, and temple worship.
What is a hijra?
The creator of the transgender pride flag.
Who is Monica Helms?