From its inception, I questioned adding "T" to "LGB" as one had nothing to do with the other. It never made logical sense. But I let it go. After all, "transsexuals" were a very small cohort and I had no issue with people with gender dysphoria pursuing treatment. But then, over the past decade, this small cohort has become an ideological mob, threatening the foundation of women's sex-based rights, threatening the health and well-being of children with unnecessary surgeries and experimental medications, and threatening gay rights.

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.

Do you ever wonder why there is no male equivalent for "Terf?" Do you ever wonder why there isn't a big issue about women identifying as "trans" playing on mens' teams?" Do you ever wonder why most of the trans ideologue vitriol comes from men at women? See e.g.JK Rowling.Answer: Trans ideology is a men's rights movement. From it's earliest days a primary goal was to invade women's spaces. Men identifying as "trans" protested their exclusion from the Michigan Women's Music Festival which has been a safe & joyful environment for lesbians for 4 decades.

Decades ago,the gay rights movement made a huge strategic error by adding "T" to LGB. It was obvious then that one of these things is not like the other. Now, the chickens have come home to roost. "T" is causing significant damage to gay rights & reversing decades of progress. A current strategic error is accepting that "gender" is something other than sex. Gender and sex are used by most people as synonyms. See e.g. gender reveal. It is "gender identity" not "gender" that is the problem and treating those terms as synonyms is a mistake.

@SecCardona Forgiving student loans is a regressive policy that favours the upper middle class. 60% of debt is owed by the top 40% and income limits are meaningless when it is the parents paying off the loans. This is about class. Why don't you pay off small business truck loans or mortgages that burden low income borrowers? I'm kidding-don't do that either. Further, we already have multiple programs for loan forgiveness in appropriate circumstances.

When they hear "trans" a lot of people on the left imagine the former meaning of trans-someone truly suffering from lifelong gender dysphoria. So, of course, they sympathize. But "trans" doesn't mean that anymore. It now largely means men with autogynephilia, a sexual kink, who keep their male bodies fully intact. Current trans ideology says a man can just declare-presto-I'm a woman and have access to women's spaces.

There are so many things most people do not know about trans ideology. These are some of them: "Trans" used to mean "transexual"- a very small group of people (mostly men) who suffered from a lifelong sense of gender dysphoria and sought medical remedies (hormones and surgery) to relieve their suffering.