Susan Stryker currently holds the Ruth Wynn Woodward
Endowed Chair of Women's Studies at Simon Fraser
University in Vancouver. She is former Executive
Director of the GLBT Historical Society in San
Francisco, co-director of the Emmy-winning film
"Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria," and
co-editor of the Lambda Literary Award-winning
"Transgender Studies Reader."
Transgender people are not beggars at the civil rights table set by gay and lesbian activists. They are integral to the struggle for gender freedom for all.