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Transgender young people and their families rallied outside the Supreme Court in May 2023 after an event called the Trans Youth Prom in Washington, DC. Marvin Joseph/The Washington Post
Protests like Compton’s Cafeteria Riots and the Stonewall Uprising have become meaningful symbols of LGBTQ resistance against police harassment and violence. What is often left out of these stories, however, is the central role that Black and Brown trans women, femmes, and drag queens played in them. They faced the harshest police violence and were…