The claim that Stonewall say the riots were led by a trans woman is a lie. What they actually say is: "Lesbians and trans women of colour were some of the key people involved in the act of resistance, including Stormé DeLarverie, Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P. Johnson."
And this is the lie. Marsha P. Johnson, was a gay black man who did not identify as trans. And he absolutely rejected the claim of having been there at the start. Marsha was somewhere else and arrived much later, well after the riots started.
And the whole thing, this twisting of history to fit today's ideology is incredibly homophobic. This focus on lesbians and transgender people leaves out who was the focus of police actions at the time and who made up the vast majority of the crowd at the riots: gay men.
The targets of the police, those who were most zealously persecuted in New York City in 1969 were gay men. Then a bylaw was in force that required all citizens to be able to show that they were wearing a minimum of three items of clothing of their own sex. But this wasn't a targeted attack on transgender people, (although they greatly suffered, too, because of this rule) but specifically on gay men, because this made it easier to target the most visible homosexuals, the drag queens.
And there's a persistent myth that the Stonewall Inn was a drag queen bar. It wasn't. It was a place for gay men, frequented only by a handful of transvestites and transgender people. Drag queens were only allowed in if they were well known to either the management or the clientele.
Yes, a few lesbian women were at the forefront of the crowd at the start of the riots. The first person to be arrested was a lesbian woman. The story goes that the first person who threw a brick was a lesbian woman (but eyewitness accounts as to who this was differ, and no such woman has ever come forward to claim the honour).
All of the lesbian women named were butch. They stood out because they were crossdressing as men. And that fact is now being used to push a narrative.
It suits proponents of the doctrine of gender identity to claim a much bigger part for these butch lesbians and the queens than they actually had. They are recast as transgender in aid of the claim that without the T, the LGB wouldn't be where it is today.