Gay Rights Was About Accepting Differences, Trans Rights is About Denying Them

The fundamental conflict between the gay and trans movements

A major reason for the success of the “trans rights” movement has been the efforts of activists to paint the movement as the successor of the fight for gay rights.

To the casual observer, this might seem to be the case but, in reality, the two movements could not stand on two more different philosophical underpinnings.

The fundamental conflict is this: ga…