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Everyone has gender trouble, but trans people are the only ones brave enough to acknowledge and do something about it.
Those who are most opposed to trans identities are also probably those who are most insecure in their own gender identities.
The LGBTQ acronym inaccurately supposes that all LGBTQ people are united or at least fighting for the same things, which isn’t necessarily true, or is true in theory but not in practice.
Trans people were excluded from early gay rights activism efforts even though it was trans women of color who initiated the Stonewall and Compton Cafeteria riots against cisheterosexist police brutality in the 1960. Watch Sylvia Rivera, a trans woman of color and activist without whom there would be no gay rights, publicly admonish gay men for excluding trans women from activism efforts.
My own experience over 50 years later reflects this: gay men have routinely disparaged me for wearing makeup, saying things like, “Why are you trying to be a woman around men who like men?” and “You’d look so much better without that shit on your face.”
Women also have a history of mistreating trans people. For example, the term trans-exclusionary radical feminist (TERF, for short) describes feminists who believe that trans women are not women and should therefore not be included in…
