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[–]Dromedary 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

An aspect that I don't see mentioned here is while trans rights or cultural ascendance came after significant gay victories- under the gay umbrella, riding gay coattails etc- there are factors that don't have to do with gay people. The explosion of social media has a lot more to do with it than gay org. Smartphones + social media, trans people are in touch with each other like never before, trading info on all sorts of things- meds, surgeries, laws, activism, coping- trans visibility today would not be what it was without social media. Parallel to are the explosion of gender clinics, recognition of dysphoria as a real medical/mental condition, insurance/Medicaid in the US paying for surgeries etc. Pharma companies and media companies seeing a new untapped market. There are a lot of other factors in trans visibility today that have nothing to do with LGB people and their organizations.