Born in 1886, Lucy Hicks Anderson was assigned male at birth, but was known to be a transgender woman. She was one of the earliest pioneers for marriage equality.

As LGBTQ+ History Month comes to a close, take a look at this article from last year:
https://blackthen.com/lucy-hicks-anderson-biologically-male-lived-as-a-woman-and-jailed-for-defrauding-government/

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Lou Sullivan lobbied for gay, trans men to be given access to medical transition. He was visible so that other gay, trans men could see that they weren’t alone.

"I took a certain pleasure in informing the gender clinic that even though their program told me I could not live as a Gay man, it looks like I'm going to die like one." — Lou Sullivan

Read more here: https://www.makingqueerhistory.com/articles/2018/5/21/lou-sullivan

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Revisting this article for LGBTQ History Month: Angela Morley was a composer and conductor whose film credits include Watership Down and The Little Prince. She transitioned in the 1970s and spoke about the importance of her wife’s support throughout her life.

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/1977-story-of-transgender-pioneer-angela-morley-to-be-broadcast-on-bbc-radio-4-a6752956.html

(Accessibility: Picture of Angela sat at a piano in front of a shelf with books and vase on them. Text: As Above).

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Some of our team are having a fab time at ParaPride’s #LGBTHM event today. Disabled queer excellence at its finest.

Transgender people have always been around. The Chavalier d’Eon, born in 1728, asked the French government to recognise her as a woman.

You can read more in this article, https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/research/new-research-on-the-collection/the-chevalier-deon.php

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(Accessibility Text: Transgender people have always been around. The Chavalier d’Eon, born in 1728, asked the French government to recognise her as a woman. Picture of: Portrait of Chavalier d'Eon)

“We have a history, transgender people, we have a culture and that we have older people who have made it through all kinds of abuses and negotiated their way to get here. Not a lot of us ― but there are some and to help them realize that things they expect and think are normal ― you are standing on someone’s shoulders who couldn’t do that in their youth.”

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, Huffington Post 2016

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/miss-major-transgender-elder_us_57927351e4b01180b52ef264

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LGBT+ History Month is a great time to revisit this artice from National Geographic: 'How historians are documenting the lives of transgender people'

You can read it at https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/how-historians-are-documenting-lives-of-transgender-people

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Trans men are not a modern phenomenon. Laurence Michael Dillon, born in 1915, was the first transgender man ever to undergo a phalloplasty.

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#London looking fabulous this evening for #LGBTHistoryMonth 🌈

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Welsh Government LGBTQ+ Action Plan is being launched today. Includes commitment to defending and protecting rights of transgender and nonbinary people in Cymru.

https://www.gov.wales/wales-sets-out-ambitious-plan-hope-its-heart-reach-goal-becoming-most-lgbtq-friendly-nation-europe

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