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There’s a common question that pops up in online spaces: “Why is the ‘T’ in LGBTQ? Isn’t that about sexuality, not identity?”

When the trans community is attacked—denied healthcare, banned from shelters, erased from history—the entire LGBTQ community loses its spine. Without the “T,” the movement becomes a respectability politics club for cisgender, white, monogamous gay people. And that club would have never won the right to marry.

But those are family arguments . They happen at the dinner table, not by kicking someone out of the house.

Here is the reality: The Historical Cement Before Stonewall, there were trans activists like Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera. While mainstream gay organizations of the 1960s urged members to dress “respectably” (i.e., not trans or gender non-conforming), it was the trans women, drag queens, and gender outlaws who threw the bricks and led the riots. They were the front line.