In 2014, Time Magazine heralded a “transgender tipping point” in popular culture.  10 years later, nonbinary and transgender communities are reshaping public conversations about gender norms, diversity, justice, access to resources and violence – and navigating intensified backlash to these changes. Reflecting a growing share of young adults and teenagers self-identifying as trans and nonbinary, college students’ need for a welcoming campus community is all the more salient in a national political landscape that is increasingly polarized around the inclusion of trans folks, with powerful factions questioning their right to exist. Reflecting feminist insights, the social justice challenges and visions trans and nonbinary communities focus upon illuminate how the enforcement of normative gender expectations affects all of us – cis and beyond- similarly and differently across diverse communities. Yet trans and nonbinary politics also have productively complex relationship to intersectional feminist and queer approaches. They furthur illuminate how the invention of modern identity categories like race, nationality, class, caste and ability depended on restricting diverse gender and sexual expressions into rigid sex binaries. And they reinforce Kimberlé Crenshaw’s central observation that social injustice cannot be well understood, or justice achieved, without attending to the intersectional systems that unevenly distribute power, resources and vulnerabilities through these interlocking identity categories. Trans studies theorists ranging from Dean Spade to C. Riley Snorton agree with black feminist standpoint theorists that we have much to gain by tackling oppressive systems from the perspective of the most affected, while challenging essentialist understandings of identity categories themselves. And recent scholarship pushes beyond violence and dysphoria to amplify/uplift/focus on gender euphoria, mutual aid, care practices, art, joy and all the conditions required for thriving beyond surviving.