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Within LGBTQ+ culture, this distinction is vital. A transgender person can be gay, straight, bisexual, or asexual. By including the transgender community, the LGBTQ+ movement acknowledges that liberation requires dismantling both "heteronormativity" (the assumption that everyone is straight) and "cisnormativity" (the assumption that everyone identifies with the sex they were assigned at birth). Cultural Contributions and Language
, a self-identified drag queen and trans activist, and Sylvia Rivera , a Latina transgender woman, were not just participants in the Stonewall uprising; they were frontline fighters. Following the riots, they founded STAR (Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries) , a radical collective that provided housing and support for homeless transgender youth in New York City.
The majority of LGBTQ culture rejects the "Drop the T" movement. Their logic is historical and philosophical:
LGBTQ+ culture has always been a linguistic avant-garde, and transgender people are its poets. The explosion of terminology—non-binary, genderfluid, agender, transmasc, transfemme—has given millions of young people the vocabulary to describe feelings their grandparents didn’t have words for.
