The current political climate has forced a marriage of convenience and love. As legislative attacks target trans youth in schools and healthcare, the LGBTQ community has largely rallied. The rainbow flag now frequently includes the "Progress" chevron—a triangle of black, brown, and the light blue, pink, and white of the trans flag—to signal that trans rights are not an addendum, but the foundation.
Within LGBTQ+ culture, this distinction is vital. A transgender person can be gay, straight, bisexual, or asexual. By including the transgender community, the LGBTQ+ movement acknowledges that liberation requires dismantling both "heteronormativity" (the assumption that everyone is straight) and "cisnormativity" (the assumption that everyone identifies with the sex they were assigned at birth). Cultural Contributions and Language shemale ass pics