If LGBTQ culture forgets its trans roots, it risks becoming a gentrified identity—safe, sanitized, and submissive to state power. By remembering that Marsha P. Johnson said "I’ll be a woman, and I’ll be a queen, and I’ll be a man if I want to," the culture remains a site of joy, survival, and unapologetic existence.
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