Using modern and respectful terms like "Transgender" or "Trans Woman" in descriptions improves professional image and ensures a broader, more inclusive reach.
Popular narratives often credit the Stonewall Riots of 1969 as the birth of the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement. However, trans women of color—specifically Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera—were central to that uprising. Rivera, a self-identified trans woman and drag queen, famously fought to include gender non-conforming and homeless queer youth in the early Gay Activists Alliance.