Transgender history did not begin with the modern acronym; it is a global story spanning millennia, from the "third gender" roles in pre-colonial African and Indigenous American societies (such as the Navajo nádleehi ) to the 18th-century koekchuch of Siberia.
: Before the famous Stonewall Riots, trans women and drag queens led the 1959 Cooper Do-nuts Riot in Los Angeles and the 1966 Compton’s Cafeteria Riot in San Francisco against police harassment. tiny tit shemale
In the 20th century, the community shifted from private survival to public political action. Transgender history did not begin with the modern