Many transgender people don’t feel protected by the increasingly performative nature of activism enacted in their name. Guest columnist

Christine Hawes is founder and editor of MainStream MultiMedia, an LGBTQ affirming, intersectional publication and website based in the Quad Cities and serving all of Iowa and Illinois.

The history-making “No Kings” rallies Oct. 18 showed how much we progressives value free speech, science over ideology, transparent leadership, and the end of fear and dread as tactics to control.

It was amazing. Yet, every movement also needs a mirror, in addition to the pointing finger.

I wrote about gender identity in the Register in March. The cushions of that piece are gone. Instead, this is a clarion call to the LGBTQ+ community, and especially to its leaders.

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