Trans "mothers" and "fathers" provided chosen families for youth rejected by their biological ones.
Before Stonewall, there was Compton’s Cafeteria. In 1966, three years before the more famous New York riots, a riot erupted at a 24-hour café in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district. The targets were police officers who routinely harassed the queer and transgender patrons. When an officer manhandled a drag queen, she threw her coffee in his face, sparking a street battle where trans women fought with pocketbooks and high-heeled shoes against state violence. hung big fat shemale
The current political climate, with over 500 anti-LGBTQ bills proposed in the US alone in recent years, is targeting trans youth specifically. They target trans kids because they know trans kids are the most vulnerable link in the chain. If they break the "T," the rest of the chain will shatter. Trans "mothers" and "fathers" provided chosen families for