Thread by @Jebadoo2

1/ What is it to "force team" and why does it matter? With #LGBWithoutTheT trending it's an apt question and one where I intend to present the case for an amicable divorce, members of the jury. I choose those words intentionally, divorce is private, but this is a very public row.

2/ LGB are sexual orientations finding our protected characteristic in s.12 of the Equality Act 2010 regarding our exclusive or no-exclusive same-sex attraction. T is covered by s.7 and concerns "reassignment" and "change". Quite different concepts:

legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2010/15/…

3/ It's assumed, (remarkably), that these quite different protected characteristics will always be in political and social union and said that they must therefore always act together. The rainbow requires unconvincing, rictus grins and gender adherents must speak of no tension.

4/ But tension there is. Such would be natural in any coalition. Different groups have different priorities and different ways of looking at the world. Tensions there are, as I will set out. Denying them and denying plurality of opinion brings us to our first homophobic milestone

5/ That is to say, gays who dare to raise this opinion immediately have their analysis construed as hateful. As Professor Stock said recently, the resort to ad hominem attacks on character is now a first responder, not a last resort.

6/ We can start with the most obvious tension. Gender ideology says gender non conforming behaviour in youth (which correlates with adult homosexuality) is diagnostically definitive that surgical and hormonal correction is necessary. It says wrong puberty is conversion.

7/ We extremely worried homosexuals say the evidence shows 90%+ patients grow out of gender dysphoria. That it is fuelled by charities and media. That there was a dark joke at the Tav "soon there will be no gay people left". That this is gay conversion by gender.

8/ To ignore or deny this. To stay silent as the Sphinx as Stonewall have. To leave homophobia as an ignored concern here is a clear malign indicia of the "forced team". One side's concerns are coming first and they're not the homosexuals. It's a somewhat uncomfortable ship no?

9/ Because on this crew, under this rainbow, you so much as gently express a concern and you'll be cancelled. Don't even think about being a lesbian and saying something, they will come for you twice as hard as gay men like me, but come they will.

10/ Beyond this what does a forced team do? Well, a team must have a focus. An aim. A mission. A great thing they assemble around. LGBTWTFBLT has a great project. It is - notably - not a project to focus homosexual rights or concerns. Trans is everything.

11/ And that's before we get to the fact that modernity for homosexuals is organisations that used to represent us "celebrating" non-binary coming out, aromatic status, a new gender de jour, and straight people using the slur "Queer".

12/ See. What we have here is the blunting of homosexual rights and concerns. The absence of advocacy or story telling about our lives. The descent into vulgarity and pseudo porn in prominent gay figures. The clowns of drag. The loss of concern.

13/ So this comes with an opportunity cost. As a homosexual man, I worry desperately about HIV with young gay men. I worry about care for old gay gem. I worry about loneliness for both. I worry about the drink and drugs some lads consume. I worry about unhappiness and depression

14/ None of those concerns are welcome under the rainbow. Nothing is said of such things. Nothing is said of woes here or the fact homosexual men are executed with some celerity and efficiency across the globe. Gay rights is now parochial and gender obsessed and Western.

15/ Beyond this, as I've written before, gender eclipses everything. It rewrites gay history. Male drag queens at Stonewall are posthumously transed. We are told we are basically second class people who couldn't even win our own rights, we owe others.

16/ We're told we're "genital fetishists", or in the case of lesbians, "sexual racists". This is simply calling us sinful again and it goes for guilt. Guilt is powerful with us gays. Most of us feel it. Most of us have a bad history with it. It works on us. That's why they say it

17/ Forced Teaming thus blunts who we are. Focuses people who are different to us. Focuses policies and language that existentially is opposed to us. Pushes policies that harm us. It may be a team, but it's very clear who is the leader.

And it's not us

18/ There is another way. As will be obvious in from this thread gay men and lesbians have distinct voices, overlapping concerns, but different and valuable things to say alongside each other. That's our team but it's right we have separate organisations sometimes.

19/ And it's right we have organisations where we come together with bisexuals. We have a shared right to pollical assembly around our same-sex attraction. That makes sense. Our differences are as nothing to those with gender.