Scoop.co.nz – Press Release: Agender New Zealand
Transgender Awareness Day 15 August 2007
In August 1966, at an all night caf? called Comptons, in the city of San Francisco, transgendered people for the first time fought back against the harassment, abuse and discrimination heaped on then by the wider community and specifically the local Police.
Claudia McKay, President of Agender NZ says ?This is still significant today. Because all transpeople wherever they are, need to acknowledge those who first stood up and said ?No more? to the abuses suffered by this community literally for centuries, within western society.?