While transgender people might be more culturally recognized in the U.S. than ever, visibility is not the same as justice.
Transgender is an umbrella category that emerged in the U.S. in the 1990s to encompass diverse gender identities that don't fully correspond with an individual's assigned sex at birth. Although local communities worldwide have adopted this term, it can also erase and collapse other diverse gender identities people have used across time, location and culture.
