Notably, these attacks almost never stop at the "T." In many jurisdictions, the same bills that ban trans healthcare also include clauses allowing discrimination against LGB people. The "Don't Say Gay" laws in Florida initially targeted classroom discussion of sexual orientation and gender identity—proving that the knife cuts both ways.
Today, the LGBTQ community has finally learned to see. And now, they fight together. If you or someone you know needs support, resources like The Trevor Project, GLAAD, and the National Center for Transgender Equality provide crisis intervention and advocacy for the transgender and broader LGBTQ community.
However, reputable LGBTQ advocacy organizations—from GLAAD to the Human Rights Campaign—overwhelmingly reject this separatism. They argue that the same legal arguments used to deny trans rights (religious freedom, biological essentialism) are the same ones used to deny gay rights. As the legal scholar Chase Strangio notes, "If we let them erase the T, they will come for the L, G, and B next."
