National Ambulance LGBT Network The Ambulance Service Trans Toolkit - Book 4 The Trans World A Professional Development Resource Josh Barraclough The Ambulance Service Trans Toolkit A Professional Development Resource Written by Josh Barraclough Additional contributions from Alistair Gunn Design and layout by Grainne Slavin: www.platform74.co.uk Copyright © National Ambulance LGBT Network, 2020 This is Book 4 of a four-part professional development resource. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means without the permission of the author. First Edition - March 2020 The rainbow and trans star of life logos are registered trademarks of the National Ambulance LGBT Network National Ambulance LGBT Network The Ambulance Service Trans Toolkit - Book 4 The Trans World Inspirational Trans People 2 A Trans History from WW2 to Present 4 Trans Flags 6 Trans People and the Stonewall Riots 8 Trans People in Film and TV 9 Trans People in Music 10 Trans People in Sport 11 Gender-Diverse Cultures 12 Supporting Organisations 14 Sources 18 The Trans World 1 Inspirational Trans People Laverne Cox Capital Yorkshire: Hirsty’s Daily Laverne Cox (pictured above) is an Dose. In 2014 she came out American actress and trans activist. as trans woman and began to She rose to prominence with her transition. role as Sophia on the series Orange In June 2016, she was one of is the New Black and became the the prominent faces of Pride In first openly trans person to be London’s ‘#No Filter’ campaign. nominated for an Emmy Award. Hirst is actively involved in the Since then she has fought fiercely promotion of LGBT rights and for the rights of trans people, spends a large portion of her time especially trans women of colour giving inspirational talks about who have incredibly high murder issues facing the community. In July rates across the world. She is the 2016 she was awarded an first openly trans person to appear Honorary Doctorate from Leeds on the front cover of Time Magazine Beckett University for her and Cosmopolitan, and to have a contribution to public life. wax figure in Madame Tussauds. Aydian Dowling Stephanie Hirst Aydian Dowling began his career Stephanie Hirst is an English radio documenting his transition from presenter best known for hosting female to male. Since then he the weekday breakfast show on has become a speaker, a trans The Trans World 2 advocate and community leader. He Defamation. He documented was the first trans male to be on the his female-to-male transition for cover of Gay Times Magazine and television to educate viewers on started his own clothing company. trans issues. He also runs a binder program which gives young trans men and Laura Jayne Grace trans masculine people access to Laura Jane Grace is an American free binders if they are unable to musician best known as the afford one. founder, lead singer, songwriter and guitarist of the punk band Chaz Bono Against Me! She publicly came out Chaz Bono (pictured above) is the as a trans woman in May 2012 and child of musicians Sonny Bono and began to transition. Grace helped to Cher, and as a result his life was create a 10-part documentary called on public display from an early age. True Trans where she interviewed Tabloids outed Chaz as a lesbian “gender variant people from but he later revealed that all walks of life” to allow them to tell he was a trans man. their stories. She has also worked with Joan Jett and Miley Cyrus to Chaz is a prominent LGBT activist make videos for the Happy Hippie and has served as Entertainment Foundation to raise money for Media Director for the Gay homeless LGBT youth. and Lesbian Alliance Against The Trans World 3 A Trans History from WW2 to Present During World War 2 the Nazi Party abused, murdered 1939 and sterilised transgender to 45 people. Aversion therapy was used to eliminate In 1951 Roberta Cowell homosexuality and was later became the UK’s first used on transgender people. 1951 full surgically-altered trans woman. Christine Jorgensen becomes an American trans media sensation when the 1952 April Ashley had gender New York Daily News carried reassignment surgery in a frontpage story under 1960 1960. After returning to the headline “Ex GI Becomes England, she became a Blonde Beauty”. successful fashion model and had a small role in the film The Road to Hong Marsha P Johnson was Kong, which starred Bing a co-founder of STAR Crosby and Bob Hope. Her (Street Transvestite Action 1969 credit was dropped from the Revolutionaries) and one film after she became the of the first activists to fight first person in the UK to be back against institutional outed as transsexual by the prejudice in the wake of the Sunday People in 1961. Stonewall uprising. Marsha died in 1992. She was found in the Hudson River. Friends In 1969 the Stonewall Riots said that they had witnessed were started by transgender her being harassed earlier 1969 and gender-nonconforming, in the day and insisted that along with other LGBT she was not suicidal, but her people. They resisted arrest death was ruled a suicide. in a routine bar raid on the Many still believe she Stonewall Inn in New York was murdered. City, thus helping to ignite the modern LGBT rights movement. The Trans World 4 Sylivia Rivera was one of the earliest and most influential transgender rights activists 1969 A judgement by Justice following the Stonewall Inn Ormrod set a precedent 1970 uprising in 1969. She was leaving post-op trans people present at the riots at only 17 unable to marry in the UK. years old. She spent almost April Corbett married in her entire life fighting for civil 1963 but the marriage rights reform. On her death, was annulled and she one prominent activist cited was declared legally still a her as “the Rosa Parks of man despite undergoing the modern transgender reassignment surgery. movement”. A Change of Sex was aired on the BBC. Viewers followed The Gender Trust was pre-op transsexual, Julia 1979 founded in the UK: a 1991 Grant, through her transition. charitable organisation The documentaries also promoting education highlighted the hostile around trans and gender attitude at that time of identity issues. psychiatrists based at the Also in 1991, transgender gender identity clinic at youth, Brandon Teena, Charing Cross Hospital. was raped and murdered in Nebraska. This hate crime The UK Sex Discrimination brought widespread attention was amended to include to transgender discrimination Act 1999 protections on the basis of and violence and became the gender reassignment. subject of the award-winning film, Boys Don't Cry. The International Olympic The UK Gender Committee decided trans Recognition Act became people could compete at the 2004 law. It gave transgender Athens Olympics if they had 2004 people full legal recognition had appropriate surgery and of change of gender. were legally recognised as members of their new sex. The Equality Act 2010 legally protected people 2010 from discrimination in the Trans Pride Brighton workplace and in wider started in 2013; thought to be society. This included 2013 the first Trans Pride event to those who were or were be held in the UK. intending to undergo gender reassignment. The Trans World 5 There are several alternative Trans Flags transgender flags. Unlike the LGBT community worldwide which has adopted the rainbow flag, trans Transgender Pride Flag communities have not adopted one single flag design. A few of the alternative flags are shown below. Black Trans Flag The Transgender Pride Flag was created in 1999 by a trans woman from the USA called Monica Helms. She says: Created by Raquel Willis, the The stripes at the top Black Trans Flag is a variant of and bottom are light blue, the Transgender Pride Flag. Willis the traditional colour for created it as symbol to represent baby boys. The stripes the higher levels of discrimination, next to them are pink, violence and murder the black trans the traditional colour for community face in contrast to the baby girls. The stripe in larger transgender movement. the middle is white, for those who are intersex, Trans Flag transitioning or consider themselves having a neutral or undefined gender. The pattern is such that no matter which way you fly it, it is always correct. This is now the most prominent flag for those who identity as trans. Here in the UK the flag is flown by Brighton and Hove Council on Transgender The Trans Flag was created by Day of Remembrance and Transport Michelle Lindsay, a graphic designer for London flies the flag from their from Ottawa, Canada. It consists headquarters for Transgender of two stripes: the top in magenta Awareness Week. representing female, and the bottom The Trans World 6 blue representing male, overlapped the middle represents those who by a transgender symbol in white. are intersex. Transgender Pride Flag Genderqueer Flag This flag was designed in 1999 by Designed by genderqueer writer and Jonathan Andrew, a trans man from advocate, Marilyn Roxie, this flag has San Francisco. It consists of seven a top lavender stripe - a mixture of stripes alternating in light pink and blue and pink to represent androgyny light blue separated by thin white – a white stripe representing agender stripes and featuring a twinned Venus or gender-neutral identities and a dark and Mars symbol in lavender. green stripe to represent third gender identities and those who identify off Trans Kaleidoscope the traditional gender spectrum.