OFTV 15 - a COG in the Machine

This week, OFTV covers early trans activist group COG - North America's first trans organization! Based in San Francisco's Tenderloin District, COG fought against police persecution and for access to healthcare in the late 1960s. Works cited: Susan Stryker, Transgender History Susan Stryker, Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton’s Cafeteria (documentary) Joanne Meyerowitz, How Sex Changed Suzan Cooke, Woman Born Transsexual. https://womenborntranssexual.com/2009/05/27/ Kirkham and Sagarin, Transsexual in a Formal Organizational Setting (1969) Elliot Blackstone, “MTF Transgender Activism in the Tenderloin, 1966-1975”