: Many cultures have long recognized "third genders" (such as the hijras in India or muxes in Mexico) that do not always fit into Western "LGBT" frameworks. Cultural Foundations and Intersectionality
: What began as "LGB" in the 1990s expanded to "LGBTQ+" and "LGBTQIA+" to recognize transgender, queer, intersex, and asexual identities. teenage shemales
: Activism in the 1960s, popularized by figures like Virginia Prince, established that biological sex and internal gender identity are distinct entities. : Many cultures have long recognized "third genders"