I remember doing a school project for my Politics class when I was 14, centred on how homophobic the UK was. This was like 1997. I consulted Stonewall and various other LGB organisations, and reading the collected literature and writing up my project made me feel a lot better about my teenage same-sex attraction. Stonewall's advice was actually useful to me!

A year or so later I could admit to close friends that I was bisexual (in all honesty I had no idea this was an actual "legitimate" sexual orientation until I was like 15 – I'd thought I was just a weirdo failure at being both gay and straight). And so full of youthful confidence and inspired by a desire to meet other LGB teenagers, I was on the cusp of contacting my local LGB groups – only to find these had now all suddenly become "LGBT". This must have been like 1998-9? I immediately researched the "T" and was totally creeped out. And I mean totally. As a 15/16 year old girl I couldn't understand what this T had to do with me or with same sex attraction in general, or why I was assumed to be on board with the "liberation" of whatever mental delusions these unfortunate T people possessed? The T's presence has actually put me off ever joining any LGB groups until very recently, as its aggressive posturing and undermining of the LGB's needs has never sat well with me. My teenage girl instincts were that these Ts were predatory and potentially dangerous males and not to be trusted around girls my age, and I've always held the "LGBT" movement in utter contempt since it chose to prioritise these delusional malcontents over protecting its own youth. But I guess I'm preaching to the choir here.

So in my opinion: the rot all started in the late 90s. It's a very good lesson in red lines and never accepting the thin end of the wedge from the "just be nice" lobby.