Now think about why
This is just dumb. Really dumb.
Gay and lesbian adults identify more with straight and bisexual individuals, nearly doubling in percentage compared to what they have in common with transgender individuals, according to a new survey.
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About half of gay and lesbian adults said they have a great deal or a fair amount in common with bisexual people (50 percent) and straight people (51 percent), compared to 28 percent who said they have a lot in common with transgender people.
But it’s a stupid question. It’s like asking people if they have more in common with farmers or Santa Claus. Pretending to be the opposite sex is radically different from being attracted to either sex. Attraction is one thing and being is quite quite another. It’s so much another. There’s no pretending involved in sexual attraction, while idennifying as the other sex is all about pretending. Being gay is reality, being trans is fantasy.
Both trans individuals and those who identify as gay or bisexual represent parallel groups, she added, as they’ve had a long shared history of social marginalization and discrimination.
Yeah no. That’s not enough. Murderers also have a long history of social marginalization and discrimination; that doesn’t mean they represent a “parallel group” to people who get parking tickets.
“The gay rights movement, going all the way back to Stonewall, has significant representation by trans people,” Schwartz said. “Historically, it has always been referred to as the LGBT community as opposed to the LGB community.
That’s just not true. At all.
I assume the trans movement will use this to say: “You SEE? Gay people aren’t really queer, they’re part of the cishet shitpatriarchy! They are oppressors! Silence them at Pride!”
Insidious nonsense. I am a British lesbian. I ‘came out’ in the early seventies. I have lived through more than fifty years of what was once called ‘the gay rights movement’ and I can testify that the ‘T’ did not begin to be added before this present century.
I’d like to say a bit more about this but it’s getting late. Maybe tomorrow.
Please do.
My recollection (as a straight woman born in the 70s in Australia), is that it was called “the gay and lesbian community”, or just “gays and lesbians”, or “same sex attracted/homosexual”. I don’t recall the LGB acronym at all. LGBT popped up somewhere about fifteen years ago, in my memory, and rapidly morphed into LGBTQ, LGBTQIA, LGBTQIAA+, 2SLGBTQIAAP+, and, memorably, BBSGLGBTQIA+.