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Should the T be in LGBT?

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PikesPeaked · 13/02/2018 09:39

Not sure where I should post this, but Feminist Chat seems to be the main area where trans issues are discussed, and where there are L and T posters contributing.

Should T be included in LGB, given that T tries to erase L and G?

Should T be included in LGB, given that L, G and B (and all the other sexualities) are about how people relate to other people, whereas T is about how people relate to themselves?

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LangCleg · 13/02/2018 09:53

No. It should not.

Transgenderism is a homophobic ideology that delegitimises sexual orientation.

It's homosexual not homogenderal.

You can see this by the hostility towards lesbians evidence by cotton ceiling rhetoric.

The eventual backlash against T will also fall out all over the LGB.

AgentProvocateur · 13/02/2018 09:50

Absolutely not. As my old maths teacher would say, “It’s like comparing apples and oranges”.

As an aside, because of T, Gay Pride is now know as Pride. A lot of the gay community feel like it’s becoming less and less relate to to them, which is sad.

ThePinkPanter · 13/02/2018 09:48

Absolutely not. Having the two so closely affiliated is damaging as it perpetuates the stereotype that lesbians are somehow less womanly.

TerfyMcTerface · 13/02/2018 09:43

No it absolutely should not. It's the cuckoo in the nest. It's colonised the LGB community in the same way as transactivists are colonising womanhood.

Backenette · 13/02/2018 09:43

No it shouldn’t.

The movement attaches itself to gay rights because most people think that gay rights are something worth fighting for. Gay rights do not impinge on the rest of society. Same arc marriage for example doesn’t harm opposite sex marriage in any way. It’s just levelling the playing field.

But what TRAs want is actively damaging to gay people, especially lesbians.

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