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The trans liberation movement emerges in full force.

1990s

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The movement fights to end the oppression and pathologization of trans people, critiquing medicalized understandings of gender that attempt to fit gender non-conforming people into the cisheteronormative binary.

Trans scholar Eli Clare (2017) writes: "Until the early 1990s, when trans communities began finding strong, collective voices, medical providers’ explicit goal for gender transition was to create normal heterosexual men and women who never again identified as trans, gender-nonconforming, gay, lesbian, or bi. In other words, the framing of trans-ness as defect, an abnormality to be corrected, didn’t start with trans people but with the medical-industrial complex."