The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History in Washington DC later acquired the flag in 2014. She brought the first transgender flag to the 2000 Phoenix Pride Parade. “When you wake up, and you’re still sort of groggy and everything but you’re starting to think, and your mind is starting to fill with images - that’s when it came to me,” she said – every much a case of “divine intervention.”
She said that the idea for the transgender flag came to her early one morning. Monica Helms, a transgender woman, and navy veteran, created the transgender flag in 1999. A transgender person is someone whose gender identity is different from the gender they were thought to be at birth.
