I've seen a lot of debate around this recently. Some gay people feel that, while they respect and emphasize with the transgender community, their struggle really has nothing to do with gay rights and shouldn't be hitched to their wagon. There's a great deal of sentiment that including transgender in every gay rights fight has deterred public acceptance and killed several legislative efforts.

What do you think? Should the gay and transgender rights movements be separate? Or is it wrong to try to exclude trans people from the greater equality gays are now enjoying?

I don't really know, I think that it is a seperate thing but it makes it better for transgenders because if they were excluded not many people would support transgender rights

no

Not at all

No, transgender issues are different but we're all working towards the same goal so we may as well be in it together.

Maybe being gay/lesbian/bisexual doesn't have have anything to do with being transgender... But why are some members of the "LGB community" so focused on segregating us? What's wrong with two minority groups sticking up for each other?

I hear people bitch about how "gay is the new black". About how people of color should stick up for gay people because we both face prejudice.

Why can't we do this for the trans community?

No

Trans people are a tiny minority and most people don't know or care at all about the problems they face. It may not be the same thing as being lgb ect but they get the same crap for the same reasons.

I don't see how we need to kick them out just because of some minor definition issue. They kind of need LGBT support even more than LGB people do.

+1

We share many commonalities. "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere" - Martin Luther King Jr.

If anything, LGBT should drop the L, the G, the B, and the T, and find a more inclusive word all by itself, perhaps "queer".

No!

We should drop the people who want to drop it

What in the hell

No.

This

Different things, but both things deal with sexual nature. They face the same prejudices. That's why they belong in the movement. And some Trans people are in fact gay.

No

!! I have seen some gays on tumblr and in rl say this and I am disgusted everytime I see/hear it.

The T is there because we are all working towards the same goal. There is also the fact some trans are gay/bi/lesbian.
You're a hypocrite if you want the T dropped.

No.

I'm sick of (usually) white gays that only care about issues that concern them. Glad to see most people don't think like that here.