I absolutely 100% understand what you're saying about how our sexuality is being argued as based on gender instead of sex. It's within our rules that the conflation of the two is not allowed, and LGB is sex-based. That discussion is absolutely relevant here.

We have an intermingling with gender/sex-specific subs, but at the end of the day, our goals are different. We are here to reinforce LGB sexual orientation, whereas the other subs reinforce that sex/gender are different.

Here, our fight is for LGB first and foremost, with sex/gender coming in second and immediately after that. We're here to focus on lesbian, gay, and bisexual needs/issues/concerns.

In other places, the fight is about sex/gender first, with LGB and even hetero coming after that, in no particular order or priority. They exist to dismantle gender and sex-based roles, regardless of sexual orientation.

Does that make sense? Like, we have similarities and can hold hands, but we're not fighting for the same things. And it does a disservice to each of our goals to mish-mash us together, because then we all end up feeling overrun and colonized as our goals are redirected.

The responses in this thread provide examples. No one is talking about LGB or sexual orientation. They're talking about male/female or man/woman.