The transgender community is both a and an integral pillar of LGBTQ culture . Progress requires:

As the legal and social climate grows colder for trans people in many parts of the world, the rest of the LGBTQ community faces a choice: fracture under the pressure of respectability politics, or double down on the radical truth that

To understand where the transgender community sits within LGBTQ culture, we must first travel back to the mid-20th century. The "homophile" movements of the 1950s were cautious, often excluding those whose gender presentation did not fit a conservative "straight-passing" aesthetic. Yet, it was transgender and gender-nonconforming individuals who threw the first bricks—metaphorically and literally—at the Stonewall Inn in 1969.

: Learn the history and terminology of the movement. Use Inclusive Language : Respect chosen names and pronouns.

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