Kannap wrote:Crylante wrote:Well given that the largest group I've seen do that is my home country's "LGB Alliance", who spend very little time actually focusing on issues affecting lesbian, gay or bisexual people and spend more time harrassing transgender people, trying to do as such does not seem to particularly work.
There's also the fact that while the UK has made significant progress on LGB rights (not that we're particularly close to equality, I can tell you from personal experience), our record on transgender rights and how transgender people are treated in society is pretty awful, and to abandon them as they get harassed by traditionalists and TERFs who also lobby to try and stop legislation to better protect their rights, reeks of "got mine fuck yours" and "I'm alright Jack" and those are not attitudes I think should be being endorsed.
We certainly stand stronger together than shattered apart like some people want. As long as we're all still pushing for equality, we should continue pushing together.
Thank you Sir.
Whilst campaigns specifically for Trans and NB rights may be necessary, I see no reason for Trans and NB people to be excluded from the wider LGB community. People like Marsha P Johnson and Henrietta Robinson may have been Non-Binary or Transgender, but the gay rights movement would not be the same without them. LGB and Trans struggles are intimately connected. To sever them at this stage would, in my eyes, be giving bigots like Julie Bindel and Get the L Out what they want. And they don't deserve that.