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Riki Anne Wilchins (born 1952) is an activist whose work has focused on the impact of gender norms. ==Background== While she started out as a transgender leader—founding the first national transgender advocacy group (GenderPAC) -- her analysis and work broadened over time to include discrimination and violence regardless of individuals' identity. While this perspective has been widely accepted, its breadth has provoked criticism by some in the transgender community. Wilchins' work and writing have often focused on youth, whom she not only sees as uniquely vulnerable to the gender system's pressures and harm, but whom she sees as capable of "looking with fresh eyes." Wilchins' work has been instrumental in bringing transgender rights into the mainstream LGBT movement, and has helped bring awareness of the impact of gender norms to a wider audience. In 2001, Wilchins' work resulted in her being selected one of just six community activists named by TIME Magazine among its "100 Civic Innovators for the 21st Century." A founding member of Camp Trans, since the mid-1990s Wilchins has been highly active in founding a number of organizations and events focused on gender issues, including: * The Menace, the first large direct action group for transgender rights, which was modeled along the lines of Queer Nation and which at one point boasted representatives in 40+ cities (co-founder Denise Norris). * Hermaphrodites With Attitude, the first direct action group for the ISNA (Intersex Society of North America, co-founder and Executive Director, Cheryl Chase). * NYC Gay Community Center Gender Identity Project (co-founder Dr. Barbara Warren, Dir. of Social Services). * NYC Gay Community Center Transgender Health Empowerment Conference, an annual event (co-founder Dr. Barbara Warren, Dir. of Social Services). * Camp Trans, an annual educational event outside the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival that contested the exclusion of anyone who was not deemed a "womyn-born womyn" (co-founders Janice Walworth, Nancy Jean Burkholder). * National Coalition for Sexual Freedom (co-founder Susan Wright, its first Exec. Dir.) * National Gender Lobby Day, an annual event on Capitol Hill (co-founder Phyllis Frye). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Riki Wilchins」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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