Gay people feeling like trans people have hijacked their cause

Want to read spiked ad-free? Become a spiked supporter. Some are starting to see it as a hostile takeover of a homosexual-rights movement by straight people. Worse still, many now think of it as among the most regressive social movements of the past century. The reason lies in the growth of that acronym, with the forced teaming-up of diverse groups which have divergent and even opposing interests.

Forty years ago, there was no acronym. And there we remained as LGB, happily and exclusively same-sex attracted. There were two very different groups, transvestites and transsexuals. They did not believe themselves to be women, nor did they want to physically transition. These transvestites outnumbered by 10 or 20 to one the far smaller group of transsexuals.

There were only vanishingly small numbers of biological women identifying as either transvestites or transsexuals at that time. The public was generally more sympathetic to transsexuals than to both transvestites and homosexuals at that time. Most transwomen are biological males who still have full adult male genitalia and have no wish to change that.

Many are still sexually attracted to biological females like the straight men they are and always were. This is how a collective identity for homosexuals came to include lots of straight men who wanted to be seen as anything but straight men. Then, it was only a short wait before the Q was added.

Q for queer. The n-word for homosexuals. In any case, yet another bunch of straights had muscled into our acronym, literally queered our pitch, without bothering to ask the boring, old-fashioned LGB whether it wanted to be forceably teamed-up with yet more non-homosexuals.

Most LGB people just kept their mouths shut. No one seemed to understand what it meant, apart perhaps from having a pink fringe and big glasses. Fair play! But that hardly warrants the launch of a human-rights campaign. First our acronym was hijacked, and then our flag.

Apparently a rainbow, the very definition of inclusion, is not inclusive enough for our queer new world. But what can be done about all this? Is it time for a divorce?

How trans ideology hijacked the gay-rights movement

Good luck with that. Every lesbian group and dating app is currently besieged by transwomen claiming to be lesbians and demanding to be considered as valid sexual partners. Other lesbians from the Gay Liberation Front of the s and the original Stonewall have set up the LGB Alliance, a charity to focus once again on the needs of homosexuals.

Shamefully, Stonewall and others have tried to prevent this organisation from even having charitable status.