Kendi emphasizes the importance of highlighting trans people’s struggles for legal recognition, social equality in their communities and workplaces, and protection from the disproportionate violence they often face. In particular, Black trans women are often excluded from both queer and antiracist movements, which end up ignoring their needs as a result. By recognizing his own privileges, Kendi is not denying that he, too, faces other forms of inequity or prejudice. Rather, he is making the point that cisgender and heterosexual people need to recognize the differences between their experiences and queer people’s experiences in order to make space for queer people in social justice movements.