I know this is a bit old but I figured I'd add something here. I've just recently gone full time (less than one month ago) and articles like this don't surprise me. Time and time again I'm fully accepted by people who identify as conservative Republicans, I'm treated as a female in regular bars and other regular environments, and I'm just not running into any other problems: until I go to the gay bar. The instant I'm in an environment primarily populated by or otherwise catering to "GLBT" people, someone either says something hateful to me or I'm discriminated against. I've gone to regular Denny's restaurants and used the ladies room without issue even though I've been open with some of the servers about being trans. Yet one time when I went to the "gay" Denny's I had an issue over using the women's room (which was resolved after a threat of legal action). It's really speaking volumes here when conservative Republicans accept me without issue yet gay men can't. That is why I'm done with the GLBT community. I still frequent some of their venues but I no longer identify myself with that community. Besides, it is more important for me and other trans people to be accepted by the larger community (workplaces, regular businesses, people in general, etc.) than it is to try for acceptance within a minority of that community. Blacks didn't get rights by trying to be accepted by other blacks. I think it is time that TG people move on from the GLBT community. It isn't GLBT anyway. Pick up your local GLBT magazine, get a tape measure, and measure the square footage of articles focused on each of those letters. You will find that about 75% of it is focused on just the G, about 20% on the L, and 5% (if that) on the B or the T. Such articles or adverts will be in the back of the publication as well. That isn't what I call "GLBT." It is Gay, Inc. plain and simple and I'm even getting tired of them including the "T" in their campaigns just so they can use us for their goals (and then drop us like a hot potato when they no longer need us).
