Changemakers, Events, Locations
This event is one of the first know instances where trans and gay people collectively resisted arrest to protest police mistreatment
What is Compton’s Cafeteria Riot of August 1966?
This person created the Transgender PRIDE flag in 1999. She gave the original flag to the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History in 2014.
Who is Monica Helms?
This was previously known as the Christopher Street Liberation March
What is the first Pride parade?
This date corresponds to the first Trans Day of Visibility Celebration.
What is March 31, 2009?
This term involves concepts, language, and behavior that problematize people’s own definitions and classifications of their genders and bodies. While this concept may manifest as individual instances of prejudice and discrimination, it is rooted in systemic practices and ideology.
What is cisgenderism?
In the United States, these laws operated as a popular tool for policing gender and sexual transgressions from the 1840s to the 1970s. At least 34 cities adopted these laws in the mid-19th century, beginning with Columbus, Ohio, in 1848.
What are crossdressing laws?
This person has received over 30 awards for various performances. You may him from Inception and The Umbrella Academy.
Who is Elliot Page?
This flag includes the color of the rainbow to identify those in the LGBTQ community. Many iterations exist to include other identities (trans, intersex, black and brown peoples)
What is the Pride Flag?
These are some reasons to celebrate TDOV
What is to: help build self-esteem and well-being among trans people as well as educate the larger society about anti-trans discrimination?
This term assumes a person falls under an “LGBTQIA+” umbrella when they may not identify or live that way
What is coercive queering?
This event followed a violent police raid on drag queen, transgender people, and gay people at Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village.
What is the Stonewall Uprising?
This person was the first openly transgender NCAA Division 1 college athlete. He played for George Washington University. In 2015, he was inducted into the National Gay and Lesbian Sports Hall of Fame since his advocacy continues to positively impact the transgender community and help initiate systemic change.
Who is Kye Allums?
This flag consists of five horizontal stripes of equal width: light blue stripes on the top and bottom, pink stripes next to them, and a white stripe in the middle. These colors were selected because light blue is traditionally associated with boys and masculinity and pink with girls and femininity. The white stripe stands for nonbinary trans people. The flag, designed by Monica Helms, is horizontally symmetrical because “no matter which way you fly it, it is always correct, signifying us finding correctness in our lives”
What is the Trans Pride Flag?
The following outlines policies from the NCAA: Trans male athletes need to receive a medical exception to begin taking testosterone. Once these athletes start on testosterone, they can immediately play on a men’s team but are no longer eligible to compete on a women’s team. Trans male athletes who socially transition, which may include changing their name, pronouns, and/or appearance but who do not take testosterone, may continue to compete on a women’s team. In contrast, trans female athletes must complete 1 calendar year of testosterone suppression treatment before they can join a women’s team. In the interim, they can continue to compete on a men’s team, even if they socially transition. This is an example of...
What is a double standard?
This bill was introduced in 2016 and quickly overturned in 2017 in the North Carolina that required trans people to use the restrooms and locker rooms in government buildings and schools on the basis of the gender marker on their birth certificates, rather than their gender identity. Nationwide pressure, including boycotts of the state by conventions, performers, and sporting events, led to this provision of the law being repealed in 2017.
What is a bathroom bill?
This person was central to the Stonewall Uprising by actively resisting against the police.
Who is Marsha P. Johnson?
This person created Trans Day of Visibility in 2009 in response to the need for a day to celebrate trans people. She is a licensed psychotherapist specializing in transgender issues in Michigan.
Who is Rachel Crandall Crocker?
Celebrated annually in June, these events commemorate the lives and work LGBTQ people continue to provide to society
What is Pride?
This city is where the first TDOV was celebrated.
What is Royal Oaks, Michigan?
This is a bill that would ban mental and medical care for LGBTQ youth, specifically targeting trans youth receiving gender affirming care.
What is House Bill 454?
Under this presidential administration, Trans Day of Visibility was celebrated for the first time in The White House.
What is the Biden Administration?
This person has the second-longest win streak (40) in Jeopardy. She was born and raised in Dayton, OH and now works as an engineering manager.
Who is Amy Schneider?
There are at least 24 of these to help bridge and identify people.
What are Pride flags?
This harmful practice ignores a person's updated name and pronouns.
What is misgendering?
This place uses an informed consent model to provide gender affirming hormones, including pubertal suppression (with parental consent), along with testosterone and estradiol therapies. This place also provide information and links to accessing necessary information and local resources for both legal name change and gender marker change on birth certificates and other legal documents.
What is Planned Parenthood?