Billy Bragg's 'sexuality' - is 'trans' a sexuality?

This is one of the many waffly meanings of sexuality found online.

"Human sexuality is the way people experience and express themselves sexually. This involves biological, erotic, physical, emotional, social, or spiritual feelings and behaviors. Because it is a broad term, which has varied with historical contexts over time, it lacks a precise definition"

I personally see it as separate to someone's sexual orientation which has a definitive meaning based on the sex of people you are attracted to, innate, and see sexuality as what people are turned on by.

I am sexually attracted to men. (Orientation)
The type of men I'm attracted to, how I express myself sexually etc. I class as sexuality. Learned through life experiences and choices.

I suppose it comes down to whether you see sexuality and sexual orientation as having the same meaning or not.

There is a move on the part of Stonewall, heard numerous times lately, to push the idea that the connecting factor of LGBT+ is solely a political position and belief.

Which is obviously nonsense. Lesbians for example are a diverse group of all colours, creeds, abilities, faiths, races, and the one and only thing that they all have in common is that they are all exclusively same sex attracted. That is what lesbian means. There is no other factor that unites that group.

Once LGBT+ is reduced to 'believers and supporters of x political position', some lesbians are in that group, some are out of it, Stonewall goes on happily repeating that it supports and represents all LGBT+ people (but has actually cast out all the politically non compliant ones) and yet is telling govt etc that they represent all LGBT+ people and look, none of the people in their ranks disagree on their politics!

It's using the current lingering faith and trust in 'supporting LGBT+ is a great thing' and that words still mean what most people think they mean, while quietly achieving political aims, some of which are in actual fact openly homophobic, and which lead to confusions such as the bill on conversion therapy.

So if the meaning of LGB has been gently shifted (and T+ since again, we have seen that LGBT+ excludes those of other political beliefs, meaning 'of the same politics' rather than 'united by the T characteristic', it's reasonable to consider and unpack what other meanings are tucked beneath current vocabulary.

There are after all, beneath the Stonewall umbrella, many diverse groups forming TQ, all of whom would relate differently to the terms of sexuality. A male cross dresser who identifies as a man is not for example expressing the T sense in the same way as a teenaged girl with severe dysphoria.

Sexuality could be anything and everything.

It's about conflating words and meanings again. Some people might use sexuality to mean orientation too but by only using sexuality, it blurs the lines and allows other letters to be added.

Apologies if this makes no sense. It does in my head.

Trans is not a sexuality. However, the original sex that the transperson has transitioned from would potentially make them same sex attracted. For example a person born female could be same sex attracted to other females and if they transition, they become 'straight' in their eyes as they no longer think of themselves as female.

This can also work the other way where a straight female transitions and becomes a gay man. I think this is why some transpeople find dating a bit of a minefield as most people are attracted to a sex not a gender but if they are straight, they wouldn't date opposite sex, same gender, for example.

The man is a twit, and obviously has tickets to sell. Wasn’t he on tv recently? That wouldn’t have happened if he handnt come out (again) as a woman hater.

There has been a massive push, especially in the last year to remove the 'sexual' part of ever word relating to attraction.

It should be sexual orientation. Which is self explanatory. But the male 'women' won't allow that as it provides evidence that they are, in fact heterosexual males and not lesbians.

So Stonewall and friends slyly changed it to sexuality, which used to mean what turned you on, not the sex you are attracted to. I've noticed it sneaking in on lists of protected characteristics too. It's very deliberate.

Under the Stonewall umbrella many diverse groups etc etc etc....

Thing is though, if you take the sexuality aspect (sex based attraction) out of the LGB there is no defining feature remaining to link those people together into a homogenous group or identity.

Kink, yes, I can see that one. That is a uniting aspect of sexuality. A at a push, yes I can see that one, a uniting aspect of sexuality. I admit a lot of the rest of the alphabet now confuses me.

If it's NOT a sexuality, then why aren't other 'identities' added into the LGBTQetc acronym

There are, it now includes intersex and kink, its all covered under the LGBT+. At this point the + covers so many things that pretty much anyone can claim to be included in it.