Why the LGBT Alliance Could Be on the Brink of Schism
Events at the July 7 Pride in London parade revealed deepening fractures that could lead to a schism in the LGBT community.
A group of eight lesbians interrupted the parade to protest the inclusion of transgender individuals in the LGBT community.
One protester shouted, “A man who says he’s a lesbian is a rapist,” referring to a man who identifies as a woman. The Daily Wire cited a flyer shared by anti-transgender lesbians that read, “The trans movement is … coercing lesbians to have sex with men. We firmly condemn this vicious form of anti-lesbianism disguised as progress.”
The disruption was a demonstration by the “Get the L Out” campaign, which organizers describe as “a group of lesbian and feminist individuals and organizations, opposing the increasingly anti-lesbian and misogynistic LGBT movement and the erasure of lesbians.”
The organizers of the Pride in London parade scrambled to issue an official apology, denouncing the …