You might have a transgender neighbor or coworker, a gender nonbinary classmate or suitemate, or a genderfluid loved one—an uncle, aunt, son, or daughter. The way this person is known by you and by others in their community with respect to gender forms their public identity. The more common transgender identity becomes, the more it comes to be seen as a normal variant of gender identity expression. A normalizing argument is just that: it presents diverse gender identities as within the scope of what
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