Transgender Activism

The first transsexual organization that Ms. Ogborn founded was KCGS, Gender Dysphoria. In 1991, Ogborn was the first person to protest after transsexual woman Nancy Burkholder was expelled from the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival. Ogborn set up a pre Camp Trans to protest the transphobia

Transphobia

Transphobia is a range of negative attitudes and feelings towards transsexualism and transsexual or transgender people, based on the expression of their internal gender...

 of the festival leaders. In 1991, Ogborn started Transgender Nation, the transgender focus group of Queer Nation San Francisco. In 1993, Ogborn and Transgender Nation members protested the American Psychiatric Association

American Psychiatric Association

The American Psychiatric Association is the main professional organization of psychiatrists and trainee psychiatrists in the United States, and the most influential worldwide. Its some 38,000 members are mainly American but some are international...

's listing of transsexualism as a "mental illness".

In 1993, Ogborn journeyed to India and became an initiated member of the Hijra community, which she continues to be an active member of to today.

She continues her activism for transgender and all general human rights activism. Anne attempted to start a school for Hijra women in India. The plans for the school was discontinued when the Hijra community expressed interest in other ways to help them.