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Cecilia Chung (Chinese: 鍾紹琪) is a civil rights leader and activist for LGBT rights, HIV/AIDS awareness, health advocacy, and social justice. She is a trans woman, and her life story was one of four main storylines in the 2017 ABC miniseries When We Rise about LGBT rights in the 1970s and 1980s.
Cecilia Chung was born in Hong Kong in 1965. Chung was assigned male at birth and from a young age, she described feeling different and misunderstood in her gender identity, but didn’t know how to express it. In grade school, she realized she was attracted to boys and, as a teenager, thought it meant that she was gay.
May 30, 2024 · (Cecilia Chung) At her boarding high school in Australia, her majority white classmates called her “slant eyes” and “socket face,” and the torment she faced from others never seemed to escape her.
Jun 21, 2021 · Transgender activist Cecilia Chung shares how she went from living on the street to advocating for policies to protect her community in San Francisco and around the country.
Jun 22, 2023 · She’s the first transgender woman and first person living openly with HIV to chair the San Francisco Human Rights Commission, and an architect of the nation’s most ambitious, publicly funded program addressing economic justice within the transgender community.
May 7, 2020 · Cecilia Chung described three ways: hilarious, survivor, and one of the mothers of the modern trans movement.
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Cecilia Chung, a transgender woman living openly with HIV and Senior Director of Strategic Initiatives and Evaluation of Transgender Law Center, is an internationally recognized civil rights leader who advocates for HIV/AIDS awareness and care, LGBT equality, and social justice.
