Cercle Hermaphroditos
The Cercle Hermaphroditos was a transgender advocacy organisation, founded in 1895 in New York City "to unite for defense against the world’s bitter persecution". Meeting at Paresis Hall, early members included Jennie June. Unlike other LGBT advocacy groups, the Cercle published no pamphlets and left little evidence of its existence outside of June's autobiography; for this reason, some historians have raised questions about whether it existed at all. Nevertheless, it is noted by Susan Stryker as "the first known organization in the United States to concern itself with what we might now call transgender social justice issues".
