Anti-trans gay people are putting their own rights in danger...

[Jessica_Rose]

Anti-trans gay people are putting their own rights in danger in their war on trans people

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/10/anti-trans-gay-people-are-putting-their-own-rights-in-danger-in-their-on-trans-people/ 🔗

Faefyx Collington (14 Oct 2025)

As trans rights issues have entered the mainstream discourse, there's been a growing vocal minority in the LGBTQ+ community who want to separate the fight for gender-based rights from those related to sexual orientation. With the Supreme Court seeming open to overturning conversion therapy bans with the support of LGB-without-the-T groups, the queer community is split in a perfect illustration of Niemöller's "First They Came."

Trans people have always been a part of the fight for LGBTQ+ rights. Before we even had the term "transgender," figures like Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera were playing important roles in the LGBTQ+ civil rights movement. Explorations of gender expression have often been vilified by the establishment, and pushing back has helped to support rights based on sexual orientation as well.

But some groups want to forget that. Whether it's Gays Against Groomers (GAG), the Women's Liberation Front (WoLF), or the UK's LGB Alliance and its spin-off LGB International, there are activist groups out there who are so driven by anti-trans hate that they are willing to sell out their own hard-fought-for rights to eliminate trans rights. These are members of the queer community who think that since marriage equality has passed and political hate is directed elsewhere, they can pull the ladder up behind them and forget about the trans people who helped them.

We've warned in the past that this administration is not just coming for trans rights, they're coming for trans rights first. This conversion therapy case might be couched in terms of trans care, but the harm if the ban is overturned will not stop at trans people...

[Lori Dee]

Conversion therapy does not limit itself to gender identity. It also seeks to change sexual preference. They are shooting themselves in the foot.