As I've mentioned several times previously, and obviously I do not speak for the gay community as a whole, but none, not one, of my gay, bi, or lesbian friends/ acquaintances have the foggiest clue as to why any of the letters past LGB got tacked on to "our" movement. And, looking at the transgender community, they don't "belong" in our group either, as they incessantly state it's all about gender/ sex, and NOT about sexual orientation. Well, kindly fuck of then and leave us the hell alone. It's been hard enough dealing with all the ignorant anti-gay sentiments, and now all of a sudden we're supposed to "defend" the trans community? Sorry buddies, we all got our cross (crotch?) to bear, and yours aint ours, and vice versa.
I can throw in one personal anecdote into the mix. A (former) good friend/ fuckbuddy of mine got involved with the squatter/ antifa-movement in The Netherlands, which was the beginning of the end of our friendship. Now, we discussed absolutely everything, to the inner most personal details of our lives. About 6 months after he got involved with that group, he all of a sudden announced he was trans and had always felt like a woman. Never mentioned any of that to me, never even hinted in that direction. He was, however, obsessed with Avatar, and had fantasies of being a Na'vi. So, we lost contact, or rather he broke of contact, when a couple of years down the line, a mutual friend informed me of his "new name". So I did some searching, and found his IG, and oh boy, that's no woman I ever came across. I also found some of his (publicized!) writings, one of which has the following summary:
"In the last part of this volume, our contributors Joyce Gloria Floyd, and Robin McDonald and Dan Vena encourage us to imagine and think with queer creatures – those that in their crossing of the boundaries between human/nonhuman, organic/inorganic, fantastic/real, fleshed/wax challenge the binary system that categorises the body"
It's fucking fantasy made reality, and makes me think of that movie, TUSK. How any shrink ever signed of on his transition boggles the mind. BTW, his name is the first one mentioned, IG at your own risk.