Revisiting the “Transgender Tipping Point” Ten Years Later

Julia Serano
9 min readMay 31, 2024
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May 29th marked ten years since the publication of Time magazine’s The Transgender Tipping Point article, written by Katy Steinmetz; Laverne Cox was featured on the cover of that week’s issue on June 9, 2014. I hadn’t realized we were approaching this anniversary until Jude Doyle asked me to comment on it for his article, 10 years since the ‘transgender tipping point’, which also includes…

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Julia Serano

writes about gender, sexuality, social justice, & science. author of Whipping Girl, Excluded, 99 Erics, & her latest: SEXED UP! more at juliaserano.com