As visibly observant Muslim women, it’s assumed we couldn’t possibly be a part of the LGBTQ movement. It’s like my hijab acts like a gaydar invisibility cloak—no matter what I do, my queer and trans identity is often erased the moment I put on a headscarf. Queer and trans Muslims have a tendency to be anything but people in the eyes of the world. Our experience is reduced to the hypothetical—most often as victims or as predators. We are denied the nuance of being real humans, with spiritual agency and lives of our own. The first step is considering the concrete reality of LGBTQ Muslim experience.