I came out as a lesbian at age 16 in the mid-1970s and I've been an "out" lesbian since then. Indeed, I was expelled from my first college dorm for being gay and I've been called "queer," a slur, more times that I count.
I would have been so happy when I was a young lesbian, if I knew then that someday I could legally marry and I'd be able to be a mom; if I'd known that positive social change can happen so quickly.
But I would never have believed it then (I barely believe it now) that in 2022: a) straight men would "identify" as lesbians b) lesbians would be called "transphobic" for not wanting to sleep with them and c) "queer" would be considered appropriate as a descriptor of gay people.
I would never have believed that men could simply "identify" as women and, based on that, could lay claim to women's spaces and women's sex-based rights to safety, privacy and fairness.
The world has changed a lot for gay people over the past 50 years. There have been amazing positive changes driven in large part by smart, strategic activists using appeals to "hearts and minds" and legal challenges.
But, in the past decade, there has been increasing harm to our cause driven by the cult-like ideologies of trans activism & "queer theory" which have pushed "hearts and minds," policy, & law in the wrong direction & given right-leaning culture warriors an effective foothold.
Lesbians and gay men need to reclaim the gay rights movement or we put at serious risk the positive gains hard fought and hard won over the past half-century. In the words of @jk_rowling "this is not a drill." #LGBWithoutTheT
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