Transgender tipping point

The "transgender tipping point" is a term used to describe a rise in the prevalence and visibility of transgender people in popular culture which took place in the early to mid 2010s. The phrase was coined in the title of a cover article in the May 2014 issue of Time magazine which featured then up-and-coming transgender actress Laverne Cox.

The term initially implied a tipping point toward a new era of social progress in terms of transgender representation which followed a moment at which transgender people gained enough critical mass to do so. Commentators, such as Nat Raha, have since rejected the term as false due to a backlash against transgender visibility since the cover was published, which Cox herself has described as "genocidal".

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