"Miss Major, 84 has been in the hospital for 12 days. She has had ongoing health problems, having posted in January that she needed 24-hour nursing care after a recent hospitalization. She had a stroke in 2019. Related: 'Enough Is Enough' 10 LGBTQ+ Elders Share Their Words of Wisdom Miss Major, a Black genderqueer transgender woman, has dedicated the last 50 years to advocating for incarcerated trans people, particularly trans women of color, who are often housed in men's prisons, as she was. She has worked for multiple HIV and AIDS organizations, and she was the first executive director of the Transgender Gender-Variant and Intersex Justice Project, a role she held until she retired in 2015."
"She delivered a powerful and passionate speech to the LGBTQ+ Caucus at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago last year, urging attendees to "put on your best shit and get out there" to defeat Donald Trump. "I'm not going back. I refuse to go back. And if [Trump] thinks we're going back, fuck him in his ass," she said to much applause. She endorsed Kamala Harris for president."
Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, 84, has been hospitalized for 12 days with a blood clot and sepsis and previously required 24-hour nursing care after a recent hospitalization. She suffered a stroke in 2019. She is a Stonewall veteran and a Black genderqueer transgender woman who has spent fifty years advocating for incarcerated trans people, especially trans women of color housed in men's prisons. She worked with HIV/AIDS organizations and served as the first executive director of the Transgender Gender-Variant and Intersex Justice Project until 2015. She executive-produced Trans in Trumpland, coauthored Miss Major Speaks, founded House of GG-TILIFI, was a Pride grand marshal, and has a crowdfunding campaign to cover medical expenses. She and her partner are parents to a son born in 2021.
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