By honoring trans history and embracing gender diversity, LGBTQ culture becomes more than just a political bloc; it becomes a roadmap for a more authentic way of living for all people.

Your internal, deeply held sense of your own gender (e.g., man, woman, neither, both, fluid). No one else can see or know your gender identity unless you share it.

Trans people have diverse racial, economic, and ability backgrounds.

As trans activist Laverne Cox famously said, “We are not the problem. We are human beings trying to live our lives.” In a world obsessed with binaries, the transgender community offers a profound truth: that identity is personal, authentic, and ultimately, nobody’s business but your own.

An umbrella term for people whose gender identity differs from the sex they were assigned at birth.