“Redefining Realness” Famous and Prominent Trans Women Of Color
- By
Deron Dalton
Sylvia Rivera
Known as a civil rights pioneer, she’s a veteran of the Stonewall uprising. A New Yorker her whole life, she lost both parents to abandonment and death, but was raised by her grandmother until she was raised by the streets for being herself at a young age. She was a pioneer in not only fighting for trans right, but rights for people of color and against poverty. The Sylvia Rivera Law Project is named in honor of her.
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