TRANS/gressive - Wilchins, Riki
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In the early 1990s, no one talked about transgender people, and no one knew one. We were not on TV or in movies. What formed the visible part of the transcommunity - overwhelmingly white, urban, and middle class - was also overwhelmingly focused on conferences, surgery or hormones and cisgender acceptance. This was still a determinedly non-political population, often in defensive crouch because it was also constantly under attack by the media, police, local legislatures, feminists and even LGB-but-never-T advocates. We were a group that still thought of ourselves as a collection of separate…mehr

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In the early 1990s, no one talked about transgender people, and no one knew one. We were not on TV or in movies. What formed the visible part of the transcommunity - overwhelmingly white, urban, and middle class - was also overwhelmingly focused on conferences, surgery or hormones and cisgender acceptance. This was still a determinedly non-political population, often in defensive crouch because it was also constantly under attack by the media, police, local legislatures, feminists and even LGB-but-never-T advocates. We were a group that still thought of ourselves as a collection of separate individuals, not a movement. What made political consciousness so difficult was that there was no "transgender section" of town, where we saw each other regularly. And mainstream society mostly ignored us. And when it didn't, it usually made clear it despised us. We were freaks. We were gendertrash. We lived in a transient and indoor community that knew itself only a few days at a time during conferences at hotels out on the interstate. But all that was about to change. Even when politics are avoided, bringing despised and marginalized people together is itself a political act. Without realizing or intending it, the community was reaching critical mass. Even in those pre-Internet, pre-cellphone days, enough transpeople were running into one another often enough to begin realizing we could be a force, that we didn't really need cisgender acceptance. What we needed was our civil rights. This is the inside story of how in just a few years, a handful of trans activists would come together in the face of enormous difficulties and opposition to launch from the very margins of society what would grow into the modern political movement for gender rights.
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Riki Wilchins is an author, activist and gender theorist. Riki currently serves as Executive Director of TrueChild, a network of experts and researchers that helps funders, nonprofits and policymakers challenge rigid gender norms by connecting race, class and gender. Riki has been a leading advocate for gender rights and gender justice for over two decades, one of the founders of modern transgender political activism in the 1990s, and one of its first theorists and chroniclers. In 1995, Riki launched The Transexual [sic] Menace, the first national transgender street action group with chapters in 41 cities. The following year she launched GenderPAC, the first national political advocacy group devoted to the right to one's gender identity and expression. Riki was an early supporter in the launch of the intersex rights movement, as well as the movement for alternative sexualities. She is the author of five books on gender theory and politics: Read My Lips: Sexual Subversion & the End of Gender; Queer Theory/Gender Theory: An Instant Primer; Burn the Binary! Selected Writings on the Politics of Trans, Genderqueer and Nonbinary; Trans/Gressive: How Transgender Activists Took on Gay Rights, Feminism, the Media and Congress... and Won!; Voices from Beyond the Sexual Binary (with editors Claire Howell and Joan Nestle); and this volume. Riki's writing and research on gender norms have been published in popular periodicals like The Village Voice and Social Text, as well as peer reviewed publications like the Journal of Homosexuality and the Journal of Research on Adolescence, as well as dozens of anthologies. Riki has overseen training on gender norms for public agencies like the White House, the Centers for Disease Control, HHS Office of Adolescent Health, and HHS Office on Women's Health, and for philanthropic networks like the Association of Black Foundation Executives, Hispanics in Philanthropy, and Women's Funding Network. The New York Times has profiled Riki's work; in 2001 Time Magazine selected them as one of "100 Civic Innovators for the 21st Century." Riki is currently working on a murder mystery titled, "The Sound of Angels Falling."