"Because of Sex" - The Dam Bursts

For the last 47 years the fight for LGBT equality, in general, and trans equality, in particular, has been led by the community. Sometimes unified, sometimes not. The people have changed, the organizations have changed, leadership among them has changed. But it was always the community that was moving the ball forward, with the help of straight and cisgender allies, on all fronts - legislative, legal, scientific, medical and cultural.

This week that changed. In a week reminiscent of the period during 1963-64 - when the Kennedy White House first began to seriously grapple with the African-American civil rights movement, followed by the Johnson White House's action on the Civil Rights, Voting Rights and Fair Housing Acts - the Obama administration's Departments of Justice, Education and Health and Human Services took control of the trans civil rights movement. All this past week.

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