The community includes trans men, trans women, non-binary, genderqueer, agender, bigender, and other gender-nonconforming individuals.

Transgender individuals are than cisgender individuals to experience mental health conditions [23].

Transgender women of color, most notably Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera, were central figures in the New York City uprisings that catalyzed the modern gay liberation movement.

LGBTQ culture, at its core, once celebrated the subversion of gender roles (think drag kings, butch lesbians, and effeminate gay men). The transgender experience goes a step further: it asks whether those roles need to exist at all.