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 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, even calling it "trans liberalism" (which argues that trans people must have rights in order to participate in sociopolitical culture and be recognized as human), as false due to a perceived backlash against transgender visibility since the cover was published, which Cox herself has described as "genocidal".