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 WHAT IS
INTERSECTIONALITY?

Intersectionality describes overlapping or

interdependent systems of discrimination related
to age, disabilities, ethnicity, gender, geographic
location, sex, socioeconomic status, sexuality, etc.
KIMBERLÉ
CRENSHAW
- Intersectionality was first coined in 1989 by
American civil rights advocate and leading scholar
of critical race theory, Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw.
Intersectionality is a concept introduced as a means of
explaining the unique experiences of discrimination faced by
Black women. Crenshaw explained, “If an accident happens
in an intersection, it can be caused by cars traveling
from any number of directions and, sometimes, from all
of them. “ (Crenshaw, 1989, pp. 149)
RACE
&
TRANS
 RACE
refers to a category of people who share
certain inherited physical characteristics,
such as skin color, facial features, and
stature.

TRANS
a prefix meaning “on the other side of,”
referring to the misalignment of one's
gender identity with one's sex assigned at
birth; transgender.
 RACE
refers to a category of people who share
certain inherited physical characteristics,
such as skin color, facial features, and
stature.

TRANS
 TRANSGENDER PEOPLE OF COLOR FACE
CHALLENGES AS GENDER DISCRIMINATION AND
RACISM INTERSECT
European colonizers began forcing indigenous people to follow white social norms.
These include anti-Blackness, Christianity, and a gender binary that reduced gender
to just man and woman.

Colonizers in some cases deemed people who expressed their gender outside the
binary as sinful and deviant and punished them with emotional and physical
violence.

For trans people, the challenges they face because of gender discrimination are
exacerbated by struggles they deal with because of racism.

Many studies suggest that many of the challenges they face arise from the
intersection of racism, xenophobia, and cisnormativity.
 COMMON CHALLENGES
AND BARRIERS
The healthcare system has historically been fraught with danger for
trans people of color.
Mistrust is magnified for trans people of color, who may get deadnamed.
Medical professionals and lawmakers have mandated gatekeeping
measures that require extra steps to qualify for gender-affirming care
such as hormones and surgery.
Trans people of color face disproportionate rates of violence as a result of
racism and transphobia.
Black trans-women continue to have a higher risk for violence due to
their experiences of anti-Black racism, cissexism, and sexism intersect
(also known as transmisogynoir)
 CONCLUSION
Put simply, intersectionality is the concept that all oppression is linked. It
is the acknowledgment that everyone has their own unique experiences of
discrimination and oppression and we must consider everything and
anything that can marginalize people – gender, race, class, sexual
orientation, physical ability, etc.

This is why intersectionality is such a useful framework — it highlights how

discrimination and exclusion are not simple and can't be solved by focusing
on a single issue. Instead, it can help us understand how the experience of
discrimination is gendered and racialized and how it differs within
different social contexts.
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