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What does the future hold for the transgender community within LGBTQ+ culture? It demands a move from tolerance to celebration .
In response, mainstream LGBTQ+ organizations (like GLAAD, the Human Rights Campaign, and The Trevor Project) have placed trans rights at the center of their agendas. Gay bars host trans fundraiser nights. Lesbian bookstores sell out of trans-affirming literature. The community has realized that if the state can outlaw healthcare for trans children, it will next outlaw existence for gender-nonconforming gay children.
The epidemic of violence against Black and Latina trans women is the moral test of modern LGBTQ culture. According to the Human Rights Campaign, a majority of trans homicide victims in recent years have been Black trans women.
The transgender community, however, has a longer and more complex history. Transgender individuals have been present throughout history and across cultures, but their experiences and identities have been subject to varying degrees of acceptance and persecution. In the mid-20th century, the work of psychiatrists such as Harry Benjamin and Robert Stoller helped to lay the groundwork for modern understandings of transgender identity.