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9-1-1970: An organization called Transsexuals and Transvestites was formed by Judy Bowen in New York to help them better understand each other and the challenges they face.

9-2-1762: D'Eon De Beaumont set off for England as a part of a peace delegation. Latter D'Eon orchestrated a successful transition from male to female by claiming that she father forced her to live as a man. Only after her death in 1810 was it discovered that she was a MTF transsexual.

9-3-1862: Jennie Hodgers a FTM - AKA, Albert D. J. Cashier arrived at Camp Fuller in Rockford, Illinois to begin training in the service of the Union Army. He physical sex was not discovered until 1910 during an illness. He was latter committed to the Wartertown State Hospital for the Insane where was forced to wear a dress for the first time in more than 50 years. He died two years after his commitment was buried with full military honors.

9-4-1990: Donald Pirece, a transgender, was murdered by Fred Ray Belloff. Pierce was struck by Belloff's car and was then dragged about 50 feet.

9-7-1889: Dr G. Frank Lydston gave a lecture at the Chicago College of Physicians and Surgeons in which he claimed that sexual perversion was a result of moral, physical, and mental defect. He said that those who prefer their own sex are often effeminate and have an inferior physical make up, are likely to recognize one another and congregate together, and are more frequently male than female. Other sexual perversions he discussed included bestiality, and oral sex with a member of the opposite sex.

9-10-1993: Two transgenders were attacked by eight men on the Staten Island ferry. One of them was slashed on the neck. It was the third homophobic attack in the area in two weeks, and at the same time New York City police were searching for a serial killer who had been preying on gay men.

9-17-1994: Lazaro Comesana, a transgender, was strangled to death by Enrique Conde.

9-20-1995: Human Welfare and Community Action Commission in Berkeley voted to include transgendered people in its anti-discrimination policy.

9-20-1998: Chanel Chandler was stabbed to death in a biased motivated attach. It is alleged that the murderer was Christopher Joseph Lopez.

9-22-1991: British painter and film director Derek Jarman was canonized by the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence as St Derek of Dungeness of the Order of Celluloid Knights.

9-24-1951: Christine Jorgensen entered the hospital for her SRS.

9-24-1994: The Exhibition "Becoming Visible: The Legacy of Stonewall" closed at the New York Public Library. It had been there just over three months.

9-27-1990: The European Court of Human Rights voted 10-8 that transsexuals may not change the sex listed on their birth certificates, and 14-4 against their right to marry.

9-28-2000: It is generally thought that Houston's first formal Drag King competition was held on this date. The top prize was $250.

9-30-1985: Four female impersonators were arrested for performing in Meridian Mississippi.

9-30-1993: Rev Janine De Boer announced that she would resign as minister of a small church in Grouw, the Netherlands, because it had been discovered that she had a sex change operation in 1982.