Anne Ogborn (born 1959) is a

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from

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. According to

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she "should be credited as a forerunner of

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groups." She is a

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known for her contributions to

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Transgender activism

Ogborn was an early practitioner of direct action in support of transgender rights. For instance, in 1991, transsexual woman Nancy Burkholder was expelled from the

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, a preeminent

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event. Ogborn coordinated a direct action,

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, to protest the

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of the festival leaders. The first transsexual organization that Ogborn founded was KCGS, the Kansas City Gender Society. Ogborn started

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, the transgender focus group of

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which included a new transgender caucus to fight transphobia in local debates. In 1993, Ogborn and Transgender Nation members protested the

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's listing of transsexualism as a psychiatric disorder, and medical colonization of transsexual people's lives. Ogborn was an early participant and organizer of the New Womens Conference, a retreat for post-operative transsexual women. She edited its newsletter, "Rights of Passage", which would later become the '' Transsexual News Telegraph''. Her involvement with the New Womens Conference informed much of her later work. Ogborn joined the

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community in 1994, claiming to be the first westerner to join the religious out-group. She continues her activism for transgender and

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Transgender activism

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