As a Chicano trans male raised in the Catholic Church, trans liberation for me is the profound movement for human dignity and social justice, rooted in embracing intersectionality within the queer and trans community. Intersectionality helps us understand the diverse challenges trans individuals face, including those related to heritage, socioeconomic status, race, and religion. By using intersectionality as a foundation to view trans issues such as identity erasure and unjust incarceration, we can pursue abolitionist work to build supportive systems that allow trans people to live authentically and freely. Within the trans community, individual experiences are profoundly unique due to differences in identities and lived experiences. By understanding the complexities of how identities connect, social…show more content… Garcia Anzalda has a similar struggle with being a lesbian and Chicana writer. Critics tend to view her writing through the critique of either a queer or feminist lens, never both. In these situations, because our queer and trans identities were isolated from our voices, the context of our heritage and experiences growing up in Latino households was erased. By erasing aspects of our identities to be more palatable to the white, middle-aged, cis-straight audience, society is perpetuating colonial practices that “violates [our] integrity, [our] wholeness, and chips away at [our] autonomy” (Anzalda 167). Trans liberation is not possible if, to become liberated, one must lock up core aspects of who they are. To achieve trans liberation, we must encourage society to unlearn harmful practices and language and learn how to view trans individuals in their entirety. Understanding, validating, and recognizing the intrinsic diversity within the trans community is especially critical for trans liberation because intersectionalities inform and compound the numerous injustices faced by the trans
