Maya soon became involved with a local LGBTQ organization, where she met other transgender individuals who were fighting for their rights. She attended rallies and protests, and she even started a support group for young transgender people.

The LGBTQ culture increasingly recognizes that biological sex is not a strict binary. Intersex individuals (born with variations in sex characteristics) and non-binary people challenge the medical gatekeeping that harms both cis gay people (who face conversion therapy) and trans people (who face barriers to hormones).

“Ballroom, Blackness, and the Politics of Belonging” – Marlon M. Bailey (2013, in Butch Queens Up in Pumps )

outside of the adult industry context. Within the LGBTQ+ community, they are often seen as dehumanizing or fetishistic. Legal and Ethical Issues: