Trans people have trans community even if Rich Lowry says we don't

Trans people have always formed community

This is true in the US, for example:

"...a few well-heeled trans women and drag queens began the first American trans periodicals, establishing new platforms of community news, art, and inevitably, gossip. Pharmacologist Virginia Prince started widely distributing her underground journal Transvestia in 1960 (under her own publishing banner “Chevalier Productions,” named for the famous French spy Chevalier d’Éon), and in 1963, Siobhan Fredericks began Turnabout: A Journal of Transvestism. Prominent drag queen Lee Brewster, the owner of “Lee’s Mardi Gras Boutique” in Greenwich Village and sometime STAR collaborator, followed suit in 1971 with the debut of Drag magazine. In 1978, publisher Merissa Sherrill Lynn introduced TV/TS Tapestry, which was eventually renamed Transgender Tapestry and managed to last until 2006."
— This Archive Offers an Incredible Window Into the Early Trans Internet, Samantha Riedel, them, November 22, 2023

It's true in many cultures, across space and time.

You can literally make long-running periodicals documenting your community's existence, and transphobes still won't believe that you exist.

Rich Lowry says there isn't any such community

On April 2, 2023, Rich Lowry, editor in chief of National Review, published a short opinion in the magazine, headlined: "There Is No Trans Community." (The link goes to an archived version of the article on archive.ph.)

This is typically incoherent queerphobia. The most charitable version of Lowry's argument that I can come up with is:

A community is "a discrete set of people, often living in close proximity, who share common practices, values, and norms." In other words, neighbors. "Your neighborhood is a community, your church is a community, and your pickleball league is a community." So you can refer to an "Italian-immigrant community" in "North Beach in San Francisco."

Whereas LGBTQ people, he says, have diverse experiences and identities and are "spread out across the entirety of the country."

So he's saying there's no gay community either. Great, tell him thanks for his opinion.

I think I see traces of that idea here:

"It was not a crisis of one form of organizing societies, but of all forms. The strange calls for an otherwise unidentified 'civil society', for 'community' were the voice of lost and drifting generations. They were heard in an age when such words, having lost their traditional meanings, became vapid phrases. There was no other way left to define group identity, except by defining the outsiders who were not in it."
— Eric Hobsbawm, Age of Extremes: The Short Twentieth Century (1914–1991), London: Abacus, 1994. "The Century: A Bird's Eye View" [an introduction], p. 11.

But, the thing is, the fact that queer people are everywhere doesn't mean we don't form communities in the places where we are and also across long distances using this tool called the internet.

(I don't link to Twitter anymore, but here's a link to her YouTube, her writing on genderanalysis.net, and her writing on Medium.)

Zinnia's Twitter thread continues:

"That was another way of designating a minority group as inherently lacking in whatever human traits are necessary for us to participate in the universal phenomenon of lasting, lifelong commitments to one another Not only are we a community, we are a force. Just by existing, we are a threat to their plans.

We are a power. The transgender community is a fact. And all that Rich Lowry can do is close his eyes and make a wish that will never come true."

We make a come-truable wish — and that means we put in the work, financially and philosophically.