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12 Wake Forest J. L. & Pol'y 447 (2022)
Transgender Athlete Bans and the Anatomy of Anti-Transgender Politics

handle is hein.journals/wfjlapo12 and id is 461 raw text is: TRANSGENDER ATHLETE BANS AND THE ANATOMY OF ANTI-TRANSGENDER POLITICS SOPHIA PERSEPHONE BARRY-HINTONt I. INTRODUCTION In an interview with transgender actress Laverne Cox, Time magazine proclaimed that 2014 was the tipping point for transgender rights and visibility in the United States.' This journalistic language lingered in popular consciousness into the following decade and continues to color perception of modern transgender history.2 In the following years, the terrain of LGBTQ+ rights activism shifted radically in response to the countrywide legalization of same-gender marriage, which for years had dominated the priorities and legal reform efforts of activist circles at the expense of other issues like antidiscrimination laws, health care access, youth homelessness, and the unique interests of groups who did not fit into the assimilationist image that marriage activists relied on for success-including bisexual and transgender t Sophia Persephone Barry-Hinton is a third-year law student and known subversive. This Comment was inspired by their commitment to bodily autonomy and opposition to gendered hierarchies, all the more necessary at a time where transgender people have been singled out for political and social repression. They would like to thank their families-both legal and chosen-for providing comfort, light, and support. She would also like to thank the many outlaws and outsiders, both dead and alive, both those who she has broken bread with and those she is vastly separated from by space or time, who stand or stood opposed to all forms of domination. She draws upon their strength and fortitude when her own supply runs low. Finally, they would like to reach out to all fellow trans and queer people who fear the current climate; they hope their words, in some small way, can be a real weapon against the coming darkness. 1. Katy Steinmetz, The Transgender Tipping Point, TIME MAG. (May 29, 2014, 6:08 AM), https://time.com/135480/transgender-tippiing-point. 2. See, e.g., Laurie Penny, What the Transgender Tipping Point Really Means, NEW STATESMAN (June 24, 2014), https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/welfare/2014 /06/laurie-penny-what-transgender-tipping-point-really-means; Samantha Allen, Whatever Happened to the Transgender Tipping Point?, DAILY BEAST (Apr. 10, 2017, 2:01 PM), https://www.thedailybeast.com/whatever-happened-to-the-transgender-tipping-point. 447