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Adam Zivo: Canada needs a new LGB movement — without T
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The gay movement ultimately proved more successful — largely because homosexuals were better resourced and were, on average, more strategic with their battles and words. In other words: respectability politics worked. As such, the transgender community was eventually absorbed into the gay rights movement as a junior coalition partner in the 1990s, forming the modern LGBT umbrella.
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Transgender people greatly benefited from this alliance, with gay labour setting the foundation for eventual trans acceptance. There were few downsides for homosexuals at first, because 'LGBTQ' organizations remained cognizant of their needs. But then the United States legalized same-sex marriage and many homosexuals, feeling victorious, drifted away from community activism.
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In their absence, LGBTQ organizations were entirely co-opted by transgender activism, and the social issues faced by gays and lesbians (e.g. sexualized drug use for men, and intimate partner violence for women) were abandoned in the gutter. Many homosexuals found themselves voiceless, and, worse yet, scorned by the very institutions that were supposed to represent them.
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Cannibalized from the inside by gender radicalism, the mainstream LGBTQ movement came to insist that biological sex is irrelevant to orientation. Lesbians were advised to enjoy 'girl dick' while gay men were pressured to unlearn their ' genital preferences.' Homosexuals who asserted their sexual boundaries were excommunicated from queer spaces and dating apps while being smeared as bigots.
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In tandem, vulnerable same-sex attracted youth were pressured into receiving irreversible sex changes under the auspices of 'gender-affirming care,' simply because they exhibited perfectly normal episodes of gender confusion that, in most cases, would have resolved naturally. This homophobic practice of 'transing away the gay' received little scrutiny from mainstream LGBTQ institutions, because the safety of young gays and lesbians apparently matters less than maintaining the myth that all gender dysphoria is indicative of transgenderism.
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Some gender radicals even began to crusade against gay men in particular. Not only did they normalize using 'cis gay' as a slur, they propagated a revisionist history wherein the participation and impact of gay activists was minimized, if not completely erased. Gay men were told, remarkably, that they owed their rights to 'trans women of colour,' even though this claim has never been remotely true.
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And throughout all of this, the trans-led 'LGBTQ' movement still found time to alienate the rest of society, too. According to the 2025 Ipsos LGBT+ Pride Report, which uses polling data gathered across 26 countries, support for transgender rights has declined markedly since 2021, with same-sex rights seeing a similar, albeit weaker, softening. Handing over the reins to gender radicals has been demonstrably disastrous — decades of progress risk being undone by the current backlash.
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In this context, it is imperative that the LGB community seize control of its own destiny. There is no reason for homosexuals to subordinate their interests to transgender activists who so often despise them. Gays and lesbians should not passively sit around while gender radicals sabotage public support for same-sex relationships. Let each community chart its own autonomous paths, as was done decades ago, and if there are opportunities for inter-community co-operation, then that should be explored — but on an equal and limited basis.
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