The modern transgender rights movement began in the 1950s and 1960s, with the work of activists like Christine Jorgensen and Sylvia Rivera. The Stonewall riots of 1969, led by LGBTQ individuals, including transgender people of color like Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera, marked a pivotal moment in the modern LGBTQ rights movement.
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Transgender people, particularly women of color, were central to the spark of the modern LGBTQ rights movement. Compton's Cafeteria Riot (1966):
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