The push for gender-neutral pronouns (they/them/ze) and inclusive language originated within trans and non-binary circles and has since permeated mainstream corporate and social environments.
Today, the transgender community stands at a paradoxical peak. Culturally, trans visibility is higher than ever. Medically and legally, hard-won rights have been secured. Yet politically and socially, trans people—particularly trans youth and trans women of color—face a ferocious backlash that eclipses mainstream homophobia of the previous decade.
Three years before the famous events in New York, transgender women and drag queens in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district stood up against systemic police harassment. The riot at Gene Compton’s Cafeteria marked one of the first recorded instances of collective, physical resistance to the oppression of queer people in United States history. It directly led to the creation of a network of trans-led social, psychological, and medical support services. The Stonewall Inn (1969)