For gay men and lesbians, the LGBTQ+ movement has marginalized our identities and erased our history with false narratives. It’s also put gay and lesbian youth at great risk of being lured into horrific medicalized “gender affirming” conversion therapies. And nothing will change (except things getting worse) until gay men and lesbians realize what’s happened and work to recreate a movement focused on our rights and well-being.
Added: The appropriate response to rightwing attacks focused on TQ+ extremism (but also extending to undermine acceptance of gay people) should not be to circle the wagons and defend TQ+ extremism!
Worth repeating:
There’s clear evidence that pediatric gender identity services can amount to conversion therapy. LGB youth, particularly effeminate boys and masculine girls, are being pressured into falsely identifying as transgender, thereby “transing away the gay.”https://t.co/BQVy0KSIBz
— Adam Zivo (@ZivoAdam) April 10, 2023
Posted by Andrew Sullivan:
If we’re supposed to take trans adults at their word that they knew—not believed, but knew—they were trans when they were kids, why shouldn’t we take gay/lesbian and former tomboy adults at *their* word when they say they would have identified as trans and sought unnecessary…
— Leor Sapir (@LeorSapir) June 5, 2023
Oh I would've been fast tracked. Tomboy. Trauma. BPD. Autistic. Bi. Yah, I'm so glad I'm old.
— bubbachomps (@bubbachomps_) June 6, 2023