GayNZ.com
Today is Transgender Awareness Day, and the Wellington branch of trans social and support organisation ‘Agender’ seek to remind Kiwis that “Sex is between the legs, Gender is between the ears.”
In a San Francisco all-night caf? called Comptons in August 1966, transgendered people fought back for the first time against the harassment, abuse and discrimination heaped on then by the wider community and specifically the local Police, explains Claudia McKay, President of Agender NZ.
“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,” says McKay.