Transgender History Trivia Quiz

Answer: Trans

"Transvestite" - first used in 1910 by Magnus Hirschfeld - refers nowadays to cross-dressers, generally people that like dressing in opposite gender clothes but do not wish to live their whole lives as that gender.

"Transsexual" was based on Hirschfeld's German terminology in 1923 and entered mainstream English usage in the 1960s. Today, it is generally considered outdated, in particular because it implies that somebody has to want medical surgery to be transgender, which is not always true.

"Transgendered" was historically used by transgender people themselves, but fell out of usage in the 2000s, and is now sometimes used maliciously to cause deliberate offensive.

"Trans" is an abbreviation of "transgender" - it comes from the Latin word "across", and is a prefix of many other English words.

Answer: Hysterectomy

A hysterectomy is the removal of the womb. The other surgeries received would generally be performed on transgender women (or other women who would benefit from them). Hart had a strong internal desire for a male gender expression from early childhood, and was accepted as a man by most of his family and wrote under male names during school and college, though he was forced to present as a girl there.

He was one of the earliest high-profile transgender men in America.

Answer: Nazi book burnings

The Institute of Sex Research was considered "degenerate" by the Nazis for its scientific research into gay and transgender topics. Hirschfeld was, as a consequence of his academic findings, progressive on LGBT issues - as a gay Jewish man himself, he was an early target for the Nazis when they achieved power in 1933.

Much historical knowledge was lost to the Nazi book burnings of his institute, and he was exiled from Germany, dying in France two years later.

Answer: Lili Elbe

Lili Elbe was a painter who got her name and female sex legally recognized during her lifetime. It was a uterus transplant that killed her at the age of 48 as, like many surgeries at the time, the process was highly risky.

Chelsea Manning is an American whistleblower. Caitlyn Jenner is a high-profile Kardashian family member and Olympian. Lana Wachowski is one of the two transgender women sisters who directed "The Matrix", along with Lilly Wachowski.

Answer: Marsha P. Johnson

Marsha said that she was not present at the first riot, despite urban legends that she threw the first brick, but she was instrumental in the subsequent uprising and gay liberation marches and movements. She joked that her middle initial "P." stood for "Pay it no mind".

Susan B. Anthony fought for women's suffrage, Ida B. Wells was a civil rights activist, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a Supreme Court judge.

Answer: June

The riots occurred in June 1969, and the first LGBT Pride march to commemorate their anniversary occurred the very next year, in June 1970, as part of the gay liberation movement. The New York City police commissioner apologized for police action at Stonewall on the fiftieth anniversary month, in June 2019.

Answer: 1980s

First used to delay early puberty in children between the ages of eight and eleven, the drugs are used in some countries today to delay or prevent puberty in transgender children when their puberty is causing them extreme distress due to gender dysphoria (a mismatch between the brain's sense of gender and the body).

Answer: Christine Jorgensen

Christine Jorgensen took part in military service after graduating college. She received gender reassignment surgery in the 1950s. Though initially positive, the mainstream media began to report very harshly and rudely about her in later life. The other women are famous singers.

Answer: 2004

A Medical Commission formed in 2003 researched the topic and drew up a list of medical regulations, including required sex reassignment surgery, legal recognition of gender and long-term usage of hormone therapy. Though research into transgender athlete performance is still a developing field, there is substantial evidence that transgender women can be at a disadvantage to cisgender women because they generally have much lower levels of testosterone due to estrogen usage, and this overcompensates for their biologically male build.

Laurel Hubbard failed to complete any lifts in her weightlifting event and Alana Smith finished last in their skateboarding heat, but Quinn won gold as a member of the Canadian women's soccer team.

Answer: November

The day was founded after the murder of the transgender woman Rita Hester in 1998. A vigil in the following week gathered 250 people. Though known to those in her life as a woman, many newspapers incorrectly reported on her as if she were a man. The LGBT community were inspired to start a website chronicling murdered transgender people with more respectful coverage, and this developed into the Transgender Day of Remembrance.

Held on November 20, it consists of vigils and small gatherings around the world at which names of murdered transgender people from the previous year are read.