Whats with the transphobia and the defense of transphobia on du today?

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24. Off topic but important -

"think that the problem here is similar to an issue that our community had during and after the women's rights movement. I'm sure many of our members are familiar with the LGBTQ sentiment that we were "left behind" or "ignored" by women during the civil rights movement"

I don't know where this comes from. It is revised history. At first women were ignored during the anti-war movement, civil rights movement and then the gay rights movement. As a lesbian who was in the room but not at the table in the beginning of the movement I find this statement offensive. It was a struggle for lesbians to break into the male dominated "gay" rights movement and get our issues included. Notice it was not originally the "gay and lesbian" rights movement. It was the "gay" rights movement - and still is.

I wish I had a dime for every time some gay man said that "lesbian" could not be included in the organizational name because the word turned people off, it was offensive to everyone (including the gay men) and if we were more visable the movement would fail. It also usually included a comment that gay men had the economic clout within the movement and lesbians were unable to contribute much monetarily. In other words, we were just there to make coffee for the guys.

Understand that I have no anger about this matter and we have all moved on.

Edit: I also want to comment on this - "Women gained a lot of ground, whereas we did not, at least not to the same extent."

A reality check - the women's movement had just lost (or were losing) the effort to pass the ERA. So saying we gained a lot ground when we failed our one major objective is just not true. AJFTR - women are still losing ground but thankfully the LGBT movement is going forward.