The feminism movement in this present day has also managed to sweep LGBTQ community, especially transgender women under the rug. Trans women have always been marginalized if not totally excluded from the feminist movement. These exclusions are extremely glaring in the Trump administration, as trans women who have an extensive collective and individual history of battling for their rights. Women and the LGBTQ community do not have equal rights in America. Both communities are involved in changing this reality, but they are not working together towards this common goal. In a piece done by Mollie Lam, Why LGBT Rights Matter for Gender Equity, she discusses that "There were troubling moments in the history of women’s movements when some feminist leaders hesitated to support LGBT rights or rejected women who were transgender. But we have come a long way, and those days must remain in the past. …show more content…
It just doesn’t work that way." Trans women are women, just like people who were born female. Just as you wouldn't deny these women their womanhood, so why would you deny trans women of theirs. "We aren’t empowering women at all if we focus only on issues facing straight and cisgender women. We must be equally committed to ending the particular kinds of prejudice and harassment that women who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, questioning, and transgender face." It is unjust for society to not focus on the problems that LGBT women face, they deserve equal rights just as much as the next woman. We should want equality for all not some. Statistically speaking transgender women face the same if not more harassment and sexual assault. According to crimes for victims of assault, "12 percent