In 2001, Wilchins' work resulted in her being selected one of just six community activists named by TIME Magazine among its "100 Civic Innovators for the 21st Century." A founding member of Camp Trans, since the mid-1990s Wilchins has been highly active in founding a number of organizations and events focused on gender issues, including: Wilchins' work and writing have often focused on youth, whom she not only sees as uniquely vulnerable to the gender system's pressures and harm, but whom she sees as capable of "looking with fresh eyes." Wilchins' work has been instrumental in bringing transgender rights into the mainstream LGBT movement, and has helped bring awareness of the impact of gender norms to a wider audience, and she is credited with coining the term "genderqueer." Wilchins' early activism with the "Hermaphrodites With Attitude!" protest group and intersex leader Cheryl Chase led to the founding of Intersex Awareness Day.
While this perspective has been widely accepted, its breadth has provoked criticism by some in the transgender community. While she started out as a transgender leader-founding the first national transgender advocacy group ( GenderPAC) - her analysis and work broadened over time to include discrimination and violence regardless of individuals' identity.
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