To understand the present, one must look to the past—specifically, to the margins of history where trans people have always existed. Long before the terms “transgender” or “cisgender” entered common parlance, gender-nonconforming individuals were integral to the very events that sparked the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement. The Stonewall Riots of 1969, the foundational mythos of Gay Liberation, were led not by cisgender gay men alone, but by trans women of color like Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera. They were the street fighters, the nightwalkers, and the outcasts for whom assimilation into mainstream society was never an option. Rivera, in particular, fought tirelessly for the inclusion of drag queens, trans sex workers, and homeless queer youth—those she called her “street queens”—in the early gay rights organizations that were increasingly courting middle-class respectability.