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[–]joogabahGay shows the way 23 insightful - 4 fun23 insightful - 3 fun24 insightful - 4 fun -  (2 children)

T is for Trojan horse. It is a rollback of women's and gay liberation. It is deeply reactionary and aligned with heterosexuality and the patriarchy. It's "woman face". While anyone should be able to dress or act however they like as long as they aren't hurting anyone, saying it makes them a woman is just false on the face of it, and if they are parodying women it is insulting (like blackface). There is a nuanced case for drag queens that are parodying femininity, which is an unfreedom foisted upon women and criticized by feminists (a kind of progressive mockery of gender - this is how Ru Paul describes it. He doesn't consider himself a woman).

Sex reassignment surgery, a brutality in the same class as lobotomy, was invented by straight doctors and is pure quackery. It is sterilization and genital mutilation for gay people. It is a form of conversion therapy. When people question whether or not one should have to be an adult to opt for it, I think to myself, "should one have to be an adult in order to opt to have their eyeballs scooped out?". That doctors do this to people is shameful. No one should opine on this topic until after they have watched the procedure on YouTube.

The T is the greatest threat to gay and lesbian liberation since the movement began. If it succeeds it erases gays and lesbians. But if it provokes a backlash and fails, it will be perceived as a reaction against the "LGBT" movement, and sweep away freedom and rights for gays and lesbians along with them.

What this demonstrates is that theory is important. Big tent, love everyone politics must not be allowed to ride roughshod over theory - and the most advanced explanation of what gay and lesbian liberation are came from the radical feminists. David Fernbach's "The Spiral Path: A Gay Contribution to Human Survival" is in my opinion the best theoretical elucidation from a gay male perspective.

Radical feminists saw this coming as far back as the 70s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfoYUs4Q3a4

At the end of the clip above, a transsexual (what it was called back then) shouts "gay liberation: screw you!".

[–]VioletRemiCat, homosexual one 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

But if it provokes a backlash and fails, it will be perceived as a reaction against the "LGBT" movement, and sweep away freedom and rights for gays and lesbians along with them.

That is why organizations like LGB Allience must appear everywhere and must become louder and louder, making sure that everyone hearing that "TQ+ are not gays and lesbians, TQ+ are attacking gays and lesbians same way or even more severe that they are attacking you all, they are not part of us".

saying it makes them a woman is just false on the face of it

It only empowers gender stereotypes. That "man can not wear make up, so it must be a woman" or "girl can't be engineer and like playing soldiers, so it must be a boy", and so on. Nonbinaries and transgenders are solidifying gender stereotypes and sexism. Homosexuality is their main enemy as well, because homosexuality by just existing already breaking gender role stereotypes, so they need either change it or completely destroy. "LGBTQ+" in reality is "LGBvsTQ+" :D

a brutality in the same class as lobotomy

Worst part is all the mutilated kids in UK and USA. Organizations like Mermaids must pay their price for such human experiments.

[–]MezozoicGayoldschool gay 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

That is why organizations like LGB Allience must appear everywhere and must become louder and louder, making sure that everyone hearing that "TQ+ are not gays and lesbians, TQ+ are attacking gays and lesbians same way or even more severe that they are attacking you all, they are not part of us".

I see this as very important course of actions, if we do not want to get all LGB achievements to be revoked because of backlash against TQ+.