![]() Yet the struggle continues: We are currently facing an epidemic of violence against transgender people. ![]() Although some have tried to erase that transgender women were at the forefront of those fights, we are indebted to them as a movement. Over fifty years ago, at the Stonewall Inn in NYC, and years earlier at Compton’s Cafeteria in San Francisco, the modern movement for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) rights started with riots and rebellion against police violence, and the belief that LGBTQ+ people have the right to live our lives openly. ![]() By Chinyere Ezie, Senior Staff Attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, and Richard Saenz, Senior Attorney, Criminal Justice and Police Misconduct Strategist at Lambda Legal.
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