Gender-affirming care (hormones, puberty blockers, surgeries) is life-saving, yet often excluded from insurance and attacked by legislation. The wider LGBTQ culture, which fought for HIV/AIDS treatment and PrEP, understands medical advocacy—but must extend that same urgency to trans healthcare.
Some cisgender lesbians and feminists (so-called TERFs) argue that trans women are not women. This is a dangerous, hateful ideology. LGBTQ culture must explicitly and loudly reject TERF rhetoric, which has allied with right-wing anti-LGBTQ legislators. tube very young shemale top
In the 2010s, as trans visibility increased, conservative backlash focused on bathroom access. Some cisgender LGBTQ individuals, fearful of losing hard-won social acceptance, distanced themselves from trans issues. This "respectability politics"—trying to appear "normal" by sacrificing the most vulnerable—has been a recurring wound. Gender-affirming care (hormones