While the LGBTQ community has made stunning legal progress—marriage equality, employment non-discrimination in many places, open military service—the transgender community remains the primary target of a resurgent wave of political and social backlash. This has created a new and painful dynamic: the "T" is now seen by many mainstream LGB people as a political liability, even as trans people are facing literal existential threats.
The catalytic moment of the modern LGBTQ movement was driven, in large part, by transgender women of color, street queens, and gender-nonconforming people. Iconic figures like Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera were on the front lines, fighting against police brutality and demanding space for the most marginalized members of the community [1]. shemale big cock