Ongoing efforts to secure and protect rights related to healthcare access, identity documents, and protection from discrimination.

The transgender (or "trans") community is an umbrella for people whose gender identity differs from the sex they were assigned at birth. HRC | Human Rights Campaign Growing Visibility : In the U.S. alone, an estimated 2 million+ people

An individual's internal sense of being male, female, both, neither, or another gender entirely.

Stein, L. (2018). The American LGBTQ Rights Movement: A History. New York: Routledge.