Lucy Hicks Anderson

Lucy Hicks Anderson

Mrs. Anderson is known as the first black transgender person to fight for her right to marriage in court in 1945. She and her husband were convicted of fraud and sent to prison because they signed a marriage license to be legally married, and she collected his military pension. The injustice she suffered is apparent to far more people today than it was then. Born in 1886 in Waddy, Kentucky, Lucy, at an early age, had identified as a girl. She told her mother that she was not a boy; she demanded to be called Lucy instead of Tobias and wanted to wear a dress to school.

Meet the first black transgender person to fight for her rights and marriage in court in 1945, by Mildred Europa Taylor, Face2Face: Africa. February 20, 2019.