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: A person's gender identity does not dictate their sexual orientation; transgender people can be straight, gay, lesbian, bisexual, or queer. Challenges and Advocacy
What is certain is that the "T" can no longer be silent. As gay and lesbian rights become increasingly normalized (if not universally accepted), trans rights have become the new barometer of social freedom. The LGBTQ community, at its best, recognizes that its own liberation was never secure until the most marginalized within it are free. At its worst, it echoes the very cis-normative society that once persecuted it.