User:Khaxton/Transgender history

In 2016, Bolivia passed the Gender Identity Law, which allowed people over 18 to change their name, gender, and picture on legal documents once they undergo a psychological evaluation. There are high rates of discrimination towards LGBTQI+ people, with many transgender people turning to sex work.

The possibility of someone changing sex became widely known when Christine Jorgensen in 1952 became the first person widely publicized as undergoing sex reassignment surgery. Around the same time, organizations and clubs began to form, such as Virginia Prince's Transvestiapublication for an international organization of cross-dressers, but this operated in the same shadows as the still forming gay subculture. In the late 1950s and 1960s, modern transgender and gay activism began with the 1959 Cooper Donuts Riot in Los Angeles, 1966 Compton's Cafeteria riot in San Francisco, and a defining event in gay and transgender activism, the 1969 Stonewall Riots in New York; prominent activists included Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P. Johnson.

From the 1960s to 1980s, the South African Defence Force forced an estimated 900 white gay and lesbian soldiers to have sex reassignment surgery. These surgeries were done on homosexuals who could not be cured through various methods such as aversion therapy or drugs.