20 Badass Trans Women Who Ruled 2015

Known For: Interrupting President Barack Obama at the White House LGBT Pride event in June.

How She Owned 2015: Jennicet Gutiérrez didn't allow herself to be written off as just another heckler at the White House. She spoke up about her cause to bring attention to trans women who are unjustly held in male immigration detention institutions. Just a week after confronting the president, it was announced that, for the first time, trans women would be allowed to be placed in detention facilities that align with their expressed gender identity.