"Gay, transgender movements need a divorce: Column"

[Amimnoch]

Most INFURIATING article I have seen in some time.

Gay, transgender movements need a divorce: Column

Make no mistake, the gay community needs to file for divorce with the trans community. They are no longer working toward the same goals, and South Dakota is Exhibit A. The issues facing the transgender community today are wholly different and separate from those facing the gay community.

Unlike members of the trans community, who are working against their biology and trying to change who they are physically, gay or lesbian people are trying to be nobody but themselves. They are not seeking surgery or hormone treatments.They love the same gender; they don’t want to be a different gender.

That is a great distinction in the post-Obergefell world. In order to achieve marriage equality, gay people were not trying to upend the social construct of marriage; they were trying to obtain participation rights. Huge difference.

For centuries, marriage in the West had been between two people and premised on the notions of monogamy and stability. It is true that marriage had evolved over the years — from the movement away from arranged marriages to the acceptance of interracial marriages — and same-sex marriage was part of that evolution.

I am not Transgender, but i am gay. I will NEVER abandon or leave behind our Trans allies! To even suggest so is fucking disgusting beyond belief! Our rights would be NOWHERE today without the out front and center support the Trans side of our community has done on the front lines!

Any person who identifies as G B or L and would abandon our T's is completely undeserving of the advances in equal rights that our "T"'s have been SOOOO much a part of helping us achieve.

NO COMPROMISE ON EQUAL RIGHTS FOR ANY OF OUR SEGMENTS!!!!

Equality for Gays
Equality for Lesbians
Equality for Bisexuals
Equality for our Transgenders

I, for one stand in solidarity with you.. period.