Louize
Gold Member
As many of you may have noticed, there's currently a movement for "LGB without the T" - and I just wanted to make a post to say that there are so many of us on this site alone who will continue to be an ally for the trans community.
I also wanted to explain why there cannot be an LGB without the T.
- Gender has always been tied into the LGB community. Insults have always leant into misogyny and cross-gender behaviours. Slurs towards the gay community are almost always tied into gay men not being seen as "masculine" and lesbians being seen as TOO masculine. Flamboyancy, butchness. The slurs focus on the non-conformity of our peers to their given gender. Fairy, Tom-Boy. And much, much worse slurs.
- The "It's a choice" and "it's an abomination" shouts from anti-trans movements are much the same as they were when Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual communities were fighting for their own rights. Rights they still find themselves fighting in many ways, but have moved so far on from in others. It is a recycled argument now that our LGB peers aren't as easily bullied into silence and hiding. The focus has now shifted to the T community.
- The queer community has always played with the standards of gender and embraced gender-bending. Think drag queens, drag kings, and mannerisms of those who identify as "masc" or "twink" how plenty of the gay male community with converse and refer to each other as "she" how lesbians have adopted the use of "boi"
- The trans community fought alongside our LGB in riots even pre-dating Stonewall. Marsha P. Johnson, Sylvia Rivera, and Stormé DeLarverie are all instrumental figures in the Stonewall riots of 1969.
"The trans movement has needed to adopt this same position [it's not a choice] to receive validity, but a new generation of young nonbinary/gender-fluid people are leading us away from that. In that, transgender is now a phenomenal umbrella community and a huge opportunity for all of us to be part of. I don’t have to choose who I am, I can choose who I want to be. I love that. We’re here, we’re queer, get used to it."
So, I, for one, won't be partaking in "LGB without the T" I'll instead continue to be an ally and an ear for every one of my peers, and I know there are very many others who are also here to not only support, but welcome the T in LGBT.
I also wanted to explain why there cannot be an LGB without the T.
- Gender has always been tied into the LGB community. Insults have always leant into misogyny and cross-gender behaviours. Slurs towards the gay community are almost always tied into gay men not being seen as "masculine" and lesbians being seen as TOO masculine. Flamboyancy, butchness. The slurs focus on the non-conformity of our peers to their given gender. Fairy, Tom-Boy. And much, much worse slurs.
- The "It's a choice" and "it's an abomination" shouts from anti-trans movements are much the same as they were when Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual communities were fighting for their own rights. Rights they still find themselves fighting in many ways, but have moved so far on from in others. It is a recycled argument now that our LGB peers aren't as easily bullied into silence and hiding. The focus has now shifted to the T community.
- The queer community has always played with the standards of gender and embraced gender-bending. Think drag queens, drag kings, and mannerisms of those who identify as "masc" or "twink" how plenty of the gay male community with converse and refer to each other as "she" how lesbians have adopted the use of "boi"
- The trans community fought alongside our LGB in riots even pre-dating Stonewall. Marsha P. Johnson, Sylvia Rivera, and Stormé DeLarverie are all instrumental figures in the Stonewall riots of 1969.
"The trans movement has needed to adopt this same position [it's not a choice] to receive validity, but a new generation of young nonbinary/gender-fluid people are leading us away from that. In that, transgender is now a phenomenal umbrella community and a huge opportunity for all of us to be part of. I don’t have to choose who I am, I can choose who I want to be. I love that. We’re here, we’re queer, get used to it."
So, I, for one, won't be partaking in "LGB without the T" I'll instead continue to be an ally and an ear for every one of my peers, and I know there are very many others who are also here to not only support, but welcome the T in LGBT.
