A recent blog I read on Huffington Post had me thinking. What defines a women or man in the year 2016? If feminists continue to fight  for the same rights as men and forget about the other groups that identify as a women; then the feminist movement is not making equal rights for all. "Transgender people represent an imminent threat to many of the patriarchal power structures and arguments that support them.We blur the lines of what it supposedly “means” to be a man or a woman; we obliterate conventional definitions of sexual orientation and sexuality "(Tannehill). "Transgenders and women  go through the same issues; lacking the right to do whatever they want with their bodies without public critics. Since the line for what defines a man and a women is so blurred and eccentric, the LGBT community plays a huge role for the movement of equal rights. Genevive Brackins, Professor of Womens Studies and Geography says that, "any defaulted/advantaged group is disinclined to look at its unearned unjust advantages because then it would need to admit that what it thinks is inherent superiority is actually a lie that is deeply and falsely linked to sense of self."  That is the area where women and the LGBT community can work together to advocate their rights. The straight and gay world should respect their differences in style and taste, while being excepting of each other.  If certain gay men want to be more like women than it should not be looked down upon by anyone, because everyone has the choice to be who they would like to be. I know it sounds cliche, but with the new law that alllows gay marrigae to be legal for the LGBT group, leaves the door open for other groups to marry. At the end of the day I do not have an opinion for who should be married, but I do know that the fight for equal rights and new marriage laws will continue because of the mix of different communities coming together. "Often, in discussions about prejudice and discrimination I hear statements like these: "I don't think of myself as heterosexual"; "I don't think of myself as white"; "I don't think of myself as a man"; "I'm just a person, I just think of myself as a person." If one is the norm, one does not have to know what one is. If one is marginal, one does not have the privilege of not noticing what one is" (Frye). Frye's entire purpose to the public is that everyone is a person and should not be looked at as if they are what their labels say they are.

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Tannehill, Brynn." Re: Feminists Are Transgender Issues." Huffington Post. Huffington Post, 10 Oct. 2015. Web. 20 July. 2016

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Frye, Marilyn. "Lesbian Feminism and the Gay Rights Movement: Another View of Male Supremacy, Another Separatism(1F)." Lesbian Feminism & the Gay Rights Movement. Crossing Press, 1983. Web. 25 July 2016.