Trans and non-binary people are the latest targets for those struggling with the visibility of the world’s beautiful diversity. Seeking a return to the homogeneity that only lived in the precipices of their ignorance, they’ve singled out gender diverse individuals as the wedge issue that will bring them back.
I’ve been documenting transphobia for a decade, and one thing that’s notable in that time is the shift from implicit exclusion and ad-hoc incidents to mainstream organized movements demanding explicit exclusion. Yet also evident in that time is the extent to which trans and non-binary individuals have blossomed. Here’s some positive changes of the past ten years.
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