Why Is The Trans-Rights Movement 20+ Years Behind The LGB Movement?

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Why Is The Trans-Rights Movement 20+ Years Behind The LGB Movement?
Queerty
By Daniel Villarreal
28 June, 2011


http://www.queerty.com/why-is-the-trans-rights-movement-20-years-behind-the-lgb-movement-20110628/


At some subterranean level, transgender people provoke deep fear and hostility in our culture. They complicate categories that many people would prefer to think of as fixed. One might think that, as the gay rights movement has advanced, transgender people would share equally in its gains. But, in fact, the mainstreaming of the gay rights cause has created tensions between the two movements, and at times the transgender community has been pushed aside.