While I think many of them know better that their comparisons to homosexuality (and bisexuality) are inapposite, I do think there’s a sizable number who just don’t get it because they define us only by stigma (at best, kinda like how they lump every non-white person into one group defined by lack of whiteness) and are so narcissistic that they cannot see anyone else existing for any purpose other than to prop them up.

What creeps me out are the most fetishistic AGP and gaytrending transbois because they must have some awareness that their motivations are erotic in nature and connected to sexual gratification. And I don’t know which category they fall into. I think on some level they think we are perverted sexual deviants who think of the “sexual” in “sexual orientation” to refer to eroticism not the biological sex(es) we are attracted to relative to our own sex. Hence this new terrible “sexual identity” language which lumps us in with fetishists. And I find this patently offensive.

And you have to be pretty deluded to not see the difference between “Accept us for what we are” and “Accept us for what we are clearly not but wish we were. Or else.” The misappropriated conversion therapy rhetoric is one of the most insidious parts of this movement.