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The article focuses on a transgender activist and transgender movement. She began to come out of the closet in 1974 with occasional trips to women's clothing stores and to the early lectures on the subject of being transgendered. In 1976, with the support of her second spouse, she transitioned to full-time woman. Between then and 1989, she was very active in the gay rights movement. At that time she thought tansgenders, gays and lesbians were all fighting together. In 1989, she became fully aware that even though transgenders began the Stonewall Riots in 1969, they were not welcome in the fight for lesbian and gay rights. And, as the other speakers here today know, beginning in 1989, they of the transgender community began a decade-plus long fight for that re-incorporation. The history of that struggle was an interesting yet very wasteful expenditure of energy. Today, they are an almost completely re-incorporated lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community. Unfortunately, transgenders plus gendervariant lesbians and gays, and bisexuals remain excluded from the Employment Non-Discrimination Act before the U.S. Congress.

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