However, culture is also shaped by struggle. The trans community faces unique challenges, including:
"Transgender" is an umbrella term for people whose gender identity—their internal sense of being male, female, or another gender—differs from the sex they were assigned at birth.
LGBTQ+ is an umbrella term that describes a diverse range of sexual orientations and gender identities. Transgender (Trans):
The transgender community has pushed the broader LGBTQ culture to be more radical, more thoughtful about bodies and identity, and less willing to beg for crumbs of acceptance. In turn, the broader LGB community has provided infrastructure, legal precedent, and a cultural platform that trans people alone could not have built in a single generation.
In the face of this coordinated assault, fragmentation is a luxury the coalition cannot afford. As one activist put it, "First they came for the trans kids, and the gay men said nothing because they didn't have gender dysphoria. Then they came for the drag queens, and the lesbians said nothing because they didn't perform in wigs. Then they came for same-sex marriage, and there was no one left to speak for anyone."
