Described by the Chicago Defender in 1957 as “Chicago’s version of Christine Jorgenson,” Ava Betty Brown, like many other Black trans women of the time, had to work much harder simply to exist. American scholar C. Riley Snorton highlights this disparity in his book, "Black on Both Sides: a Racial History of Trans Identity," giving voice to figures like Brown who not only fought for the rights of trans people, but also faced state-sanctioned anti-black racism still present today.
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