Transgender women of color experience disproportionately high rates of violence.

Used to describe "hateful" or assertive women, often as a synonym for "bitch".

While LGBTQ culture at large has seen massive gains in legal rights (marriage equality, non-discrimination laws), the trans community is currently facing a political and social backlash that echoes the homophobia of the 1980s.

For decades, the "T" in LGBTQ+ has stood alongside L, G, B, and Q, but the alliance was not always seamless. In the mid-20th century, early homophile movements often sidelined trans people, fearing that visible gender nonconformity would undermine efforts to gain acceptance for gay men and lesbians. Yet, history shows that trans people were always there. Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera, two self-identified trans women of color, were not just participants but pivotal leaders in the 1969 Stonewall Uprising—the catalyst for the modern gay rights movement.