While LGB rights often focus on anti-discrimination laws, marriage, and adoption, trans rights center on (hormones, surgery), identity documents (changing gender markers), and bodily autonomy (freedom from non-consensual intersex surgeries or forced detransition). In recent years, as anti-trans legislation has exploded (bathroom bills, sports bans, healthcare bans), some LGB organizations have been slow to respond, prioritizing "respectability politics" over emergency action.
The modern LGBTQ+ rights movement was not built overnight; it was forged in moments of collective resistance where transgender individuals played foundational roles. The Spark of Resistance