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“They have made us the enemy of the week,” says Sarah, a trans woman and high school teacher in Florida. “Every news cycle, it’s about ‘groomers’ and ‘mutilation.’ My students are terrified. I have a 14-year-old trans boy who stopped using the bathroom at school entirely. He holds it all day. That’s not politics. That’s cruelty.”

Outside, the rain had stopped. The rainbow flag hanging from the bookstore’s awning dripped water onto the sidewalk. Inside, a group of parents—gay, straight, cisgender, and transgender—gathered their children, chattering about juice boxes and nap times. Tgirls - Cleo Wynter Shoots A Load- Shemale- Tr...

The result was a painful schism. In the 1970s and 80s, some mainstream gay organizations explicitly excluded transgender people from their advocacy. It wasn’t until the 1990s and early 2000s that the “T” in LGBTQ began to be consistently included, thanks to decades of grassroots activism, the rise of transgender studies in academia, and the work of groups like the Transgender Law Center. To understand transgender culture, one must understand the distinction between gender identity (one’s internal sense of self as male, female, both, or neither) and sexual orientation (who one is attracted to). A transgender woman who loves men is straight. A transgender man who loves men is gay. The two axes are independent. “They have made us the enemy of the