Between 1996 and 1997, three transgender women – known in in court records as A, D and G to protect their identities – were denied gender reassignment surgery by the North West Lancashire Health Authority in England. In 1999, the women brought a legal suit against the Health Authority.
1800s British doctor
Suffragist and member of the Hawaiian royal family
Journalist and activist who documented the imprisonment of Japanese-Americans during WWII
Sutteer worked for the Federal Aviation Administration and the Bureau of Indian Affairs in Alaska for 17 years before being appointed superintendent of Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument, the first woman and first Native American to serve in that position.
Ada Deer laid the foundation for the successes of many modern American women through her political trailblazing and activism.
Clara Lemlich Shavelson is known primarily for her part in the 1909 garment workers strike in New York City, often referred to as the Uprising of 20,000.
American suffragist
Scholar and one of Eleanor Roosevelt’s earliest female political and feminist mentors
Archeologist who specialized in Paleoindian studies.