Transgender Warriors

The final chapter of Transgender Warriors is a photo gallery depicting gender diverse people, including people who are transgender, intersex, gender nonconforming, bigender (an identity that would now fall under the non-binary umbrella) and/or drag performers, along with brief biographies of each subject. Notable figures include Marsha P. Johnson and Brandon Teena. Marsha P. Johnson was a transgender activist and drag performer. She was a leader in the Stonewall Uprising and in the gay and transgender communities in the late 20th century. Her death in 1992 was ruled a suicide but was poorly investigated; police dismissed evidence suggesting she was murdered. Brandon Teena was a transgender man who was beaten, raped, and later murdered. This section also includes photos of Quentin Crisp, Craig Hackman, Petric Smith, Max Wolf Valerio, Louis Graydon Sullivan, Stormé DeLarverie, Kate Bornstein, and many other people who have fought for transgender rights and freedoms.

While Feinberg was writing Transgender Warriors, the basketball player Dennis Rodman “proudly came out as a cross-dresser” (165). Some people accused him of cross-dressing as a publicity stunt, though Rodman asserted that he had been dressing as a woman periodically since his childhood.