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Hey friends!

I've been beefing up on my trans history lately. I'm coming up with a list of dates, locations and occurrences of noteworthy trans-centered struggles, battles and uprisings. Can you help me come up with more?

Here's what I have so far (heavily skewed towards the US, but I'd love to see entries from all over the world)...

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[–] dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

found this relevant section in the introduction (page 18):

note especially the footnotes which are sources about resistance; so far the author has indicated most of the resistance came in indirect and passive forms, such as avoiding police and leaving jurisdictions where British colonial rule was more strict about enforcing anti-"eunuch" laws.

Need to keep reading to find if there are any instances of more direct resistance or "battles". You could characterize the whole campaign of British attempts to "eliminate" what they called "eunuchs" as a major fight or struggle, though.

The British passed the "Criminal Tribes Act" in 1871, the second part of which made "eunuchs" illegal and targeted the Hijra, with the explicit goal of eliminating eunuchs & Hijra entirely:

Short timeline:

  • 1850s to 1870s - a panic about the Hijra spread among British officials in north India
  • 1852 - the Bhoorah murder trial, a Hijra woman was killed which stirred up more panic among British officials and justification of persecution
  • 1860 - section 377 of the Indian Penal Code criminalizes all "non-reproductive" forms of intercourse, which remained law until legal battles started in 1991 eventually overturned the law in 2018
  • 1865 - annual reports are made to track progress towards eliminating Hijra, this continued into the 20th century
  • 1871 - the CTA is passed which criminalized Hijra with the intent to gradually eliminate them