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The transgender community has been an integral, though often marginalized, foundation of the broader LGBTQ+ movement for over a century. While the acronym "LGBTQ+" reflects a modern unified political front, transgender people have historically been at the forefront of the fight for civil rights, even as they faced exclusion from within the movement they helped build.
Transgender people have existed across cultures for millennia—from the in South Asia to the Two-Spirit people of North America. In the modern Western context, the movement evolved from underground social clubs into radical activism: Marsha P. Johnson
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