Trans Liberation Now! is a demand rooted in a long history of resistance, led most often by those with the least to lose. In August 1966, trans women and street queens at Compton's Cafeteria in San Francisco fought back against police harassment, three years before the Stonewall uprising. At Stonewall in 1969, trans women of color stood on the front lines, Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera among them. In 1970 the two founded STAR, Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries, which sheltered homeless trans youth and stood with the Young Lords and the Black Panther Party.

That vision has been carried forward by people who understood that gender oppression is bound up with class and empire. The communist writer and organizer Leslie Feinberg traced trans oppression to the rise of class society and argued that liberation would come through the solidarity of all workers and oppressed peoples. Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a veteran of Stonewall and of the prisons, spent decades organizing with incarcerated trans women. Today trans people, especially Black trans women, face police violence, poverty, and the denial of health care, along with a coordinated wave of laws attacking their right to exist in public life.

Trans liberation will not be won through corporate pride campaigns or the promises of politicians who abandon trans people when it is convenient. It will be won the way every freedom has been won: through organization, solidarity, and struggle. It is inseparable from the liberation of all working and oppressed people, and the fight for it belongs to all of us, now.

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