🤦🏻♀️Pete
Why do people conflate being gay with the "trans" movement?
Being same sex attracted is an unchangeable trait like your race or your sex.
When gay people fought for equal rights, such as the right to marry, they were not infringing on anyone else's rights. In other words, in giving them equal rights there was no conflict of interest with another group.
This is not so with gender identity. Firstly it is something no one is able to define. It is classed as a 'feeling of discomfort' around ones gender. But how can a biological male know what it feels like to be a woman?(spoiler alert: no one does. Even women don't 'feel like' women.If we didn't have bodies and were just floating heads no one would know what gender they were). Secondly it does infringe on the rights of others. On the right of women to feel comfort, safety and dignity in their intimate spaces.
Associating the umbrella term trans with same sex attracted people is damaging to the gay community because trans people fall into the following categories:
1. People with genuine gender disphoria. The majority of whom are overwhelmingly gay, or homosexual transexuals. Traditionally these would come under the LGBT group and I would argue they are being damaged by the following groups also classed as "trans"
2. The 'gender queer' bunch who are mainly straight white men or bi women who want oppression points and street cred. Oh, and weirdos. Also sadly a lot of young gay women have been swept up in this having internalised homophobia. They are having damaging surgeries and going into early menopause through anabolic steroid use.
3. Autogynophille males. Around 5% of the male population who find it erotic to dress/act/be seen as a woman. It's a fetish or paraphilia. There's nothing wrong per sa with this, if it's not used as a way of denigrating women and gaining access to their spaces.
As to transitioning young kids, there is research showing puberty blockers lead to developmental neurological damage, poor bone density leading to osteoporosis, swelling of the brain (interracial pressure), heart problems etc Let alone the issue of consent when it comes to sterilising kids and preventing them ever having orgasm and therefore any kind of love life. The post surgical problems are probably too graphic to list on this forum but include anal fistulas.
Edit: DD I agree. There's also a lot of conflation with body dismorphia and gender disphoria. I would argue a large minority of young girls and boys experience body dismorphia at some point. Anorexia is a form. The rate of young women attending gender clinics rocketed by 2000% in the UK over za few years. Mainly social media driven but when you hear their experiences so many have been neglected, have autism, victims of CSA etc and girls tend to internalise anger and focus on their bodies. It used to be cutting. Now it's cutting off your breasts