Navigating Identity, Activism, and Intersectionality: The Transgender Community within Evolving LGBTQ+ Culture
: The term "transsexual" is less common today because it is often seen as over-medicalizing the experience. "Transgender" emerged as a broader term to move away from purely medical definitions of transition [32]. Finding Support and Community
The greatest threat to LGBTQ unity today is the political strategy of "divide and conquer." Anti-LGBTQ legislation is currently testing whether the alliance can hold. In the U.S. and UK, some gay and lesbian figures have accepted trans-exclusionary laws in exchange for protecting gay rights—a modern version of throwing trans people overboard to save the ship.
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