Initialism and being tied other's agendas
Exactly how is Trans activists bringing down Gay rights, it is the rope of intialism tying us to them as they go over the cliff. Also, a bad argument that shouldn't be used.
There are those posting in various forums that trans activists are going to bring down Gay rights with their agenda. Given some of the absurdities in the trans agenda this very well might happen. It is a real risk.
It is valid to be concerned over something that might crash the Gay community and some of the extreme elements of some trans activists might very well do.
The problem is that those resisting the extreme elements of the trans agenda don’t understand the situation. So their response to it will be flawed and ineffective and appear somewhat cowardly.
Why is it that some elements of the trans agenda might bring down Gay rights? If you answer is that the trans agenda has elements that are going to be broadly rejected by the public, you are missing the point.
The question instead is how is it that any trans agenda item of whatever nature might have an impact on Gay rights? That is why is there any linkage, or how is Gay rights tied to the trans agenda?
It is initialism that is the problem, that Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals, and Trans are conceptualized all part of one Alphabet Soup, that is a LGBTQ+ or even longer initialisms, that is one group with merely different private sexualities and genders, but composing essentially one group. [Article continues after these two links.]
As a consquence the Gay community is tied to the agenda of whatever other letter (gender, sexuality, whatever) which is latching on to the initialism. If they go over the cliff we are tied to them and taken down with them. Initialism is the rope.
These are other communities, if in fact these sexualities and genders exist as communities and some just seem to be individual variations. The Lesbian and Gay communities might consider whether to be in alliance on some issues, but also might consider not being in alliance in others. But since Lesbians and Gays are slopped together with initialism into one Alphabet Soup those questions aren’t even considered.
Consider the organizations of racial minorities.
Racial minorities exist in seperate groups and when they work together they understand it is as being an alliance.
So you have the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. It isn’t the National Association for the Advancement of People of Color, or National Association for the Advancement of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color. It certainly isn’t NAACLXYZAPIJKLTUVP. Though I have been seeing increasinly the use of BIPOC.
It the excesses of Trans absurdities bring down Lesbian and Gay rights it will be Initialism that is the rope that tied us to them and pulled us over the cliff with them.
Initialism is a rope which endlessly keeps the agendas of the Lesbian and Gay communities entangled with whatever thing that one of the other letters in the initialism might be involved with. (And it allows these other letters to barge into Lesbian and Gay community matters.)
The damage isn’t just that the absurdity of whatever some other letter might be doing impacts the credibility of Gay rights. We are also devoting a lot of the mental energy of the Gay community to these other issues rather than working on the issues in our community. We get entangled into all these issues about trans and gender and sex, when we should point out these are their issues NOT ours.
Without initialism whether the Gay community should support some issue becomes whether it is a Gay issue or an issue in which Gay concerns are involved, or there was a larger strategic issue involved which encompasses Gay rights or issues.
Since there are no Gay institutions, but instead LGBTQXYZ institutions, this discussion of the relevance to the Gay community doesn’t occur.
There is a discussion in a reverse direction. There have been multiple ongoing attacks on the Gay community by trans using accusations of transphobia to dictate to the Gay community who we are and what we should be. The two major attacks on Lil Nas X are the most notable.
The Gay community needs to give up initialism.
If we want to not get pulled over the cliff by other groups we need to cut the rope of intialism.
This needs to be forefront in our arguments regarding trans, and not arguments over gender, etc. or whatever the academic elites have invented.
Also, rejecting initialism will conceptualize us as a community to reject trans attacks on the Gay community and their appropriations.
ADDENDUM: A bad argument.
Just only saying that it will crash Gay rights as the sole reason for not supporting trans rights comes across as cowardly. In the beginning and still in various parts of the world Gay rights are a tough issue. This is somewhat what Respectability Gays do, let some Gay issues sit, leave some Gay people behind because of what the straight people might think, because it is a tough issue.
It is simply the case is that it isn’t our issue or it shouldn’t automatically be assumed to be the case, and if it is our issue, why and how and to what limits. Certainly the attacks on the Gay community need to stop as a condition for it to be adopted as an issue as part of an alliance.
But simply that it seems to be a tough issue in and of itself isn’t valid.
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