Pete Buttigieg denounces attempts to drop the T from LGBTQ+

[Jessica_Rose]

"It's terrible": Pete Buttigieg denounces attempts to drop the T from LGBTQ+

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/10/its-terrible-pete-buttigieg-denounces-attempts-to-drop-the-t-from-lgbtq/ 🔗

Alex Bollinger (2 Oct 2025)

Former Transportation Secretary called for all LGBTQ+ people to stand in solidarity with trans people, who are facing numerous attacks from Republicans all over the country.

In an interview with YouTuber Andrew Callaghan, published yesterday, Buttigieg discussed a range of topics, including AI, the New York mayoral race, and military service.

"How did you feel about the T getting removed from the Stonewall website?" Callaghan asked.

"It's terrible," Buttigieg responded. "I mean, look, you know, if you look into the history of what made it possible for people like me to have rights like we do to get married, like a lot of that was advocates and activists who were transgender in the 60s or 70s... who stuck up for everybody's rights."

Buttigieg then talked about how some cisgender gay and bi people want to somehow drop transgender people from the community.

"So I get the politics of it," he said. "I get that it would be politically convenient, honestly, for people to pull up the ladder after them and leave out others, but that's not OK. People have to stick together. And that's not just across the LGBTQ community, it's like, anywhere somebody is getting beat up or having, literally or figuratively, because of who they are, I think everybody else has to stick up for them."

[Asche]

There's also a self-interest factor here: as should already be obvious by now, trans people are just a wedge issue.  As is already happening in Florida, among other places, they're really gunning for all LGBT people.
(Not to mention anyone else who does't fit in with their idea of "decent Real American")

By defending trans people, non-T LGB people are defending themselves.