International Foundation for Gender Education (IFGE)
Merissa Sherrill Lynn proposed the creation of a national group to organize and advocate for the community. To further this aim, IFGE published the magazine TV-TS Tapestry (1979-1995), later renamed Transgender Tapestry (1995-2009), and hosted an annual “Coming Together” conference.
It was here that the Virginia Prince Award was given out to Trans+ community leaders with at least ten years of service. Virginia Prince awarded it to herself (depicted in image), with other recipients including Merissa Sherrill Lynn (1942-2017), Ariadne Kane, Joanna Clark, Yvonne Cook-Riley, Jamison Green, Marsha Botzer, and Dallas Denny, among others.
Yvonne Cook-Riley was at the meeting where IFGE was founded. Her oral history describes what that first meeting was like.
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