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[–]JulienMayfair 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Funny how I lived through most of the 80s, 90s, and 00s without running into many trans people involved in gay activism. Actually, for the 80s, the count would be zero.

But I suppose that youngsters like this one just believe what they've been told by other TRAs.

And, for that matter, most LGB goals of the time were also of benefit to trans people, like getting rid of sodomy laws, so if trans people were involved, it's not it was some sort of selfless effort.

[–]chazzstrong 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

The idea of transgenderism didn't even exist until the 90s, and it certainly wasn't part of the LGB movement. The 'T' never stood for transgender.

[–]JulienMayfair 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I went to a highly-ranked university in the 1980s, and I never even heard the concept of being transgender mentioned once. And I had some bleeding-heart lefty friends.

[–]MarkJeffersonTight defenses and we draw the line 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

They were called transsexuals or transvestites then. And if there was a Q included, it meant Questioning. Even if reclaimed, the idea of having 'Queer' as a separate letter nested inside the 'Queer' acronym makes no sense at all. But then again, these are the people who created 'Latinx'.