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Why I don't support LGBT
Okay, I didn't mean to act like Sitar by making a debate basically about me, but hear me out :pWhat the gay rights movement means to me is equality between genders, breaking down the barriers, gender roles and somehow neutralizing the terms of "men and women" to the point where they become irrelevant in society.I support gay rights, I support equal rights and I support movements focusing on equality in general, whether it be gender, sexuality, race, or whatever.However, what bothers me about the organization LGBT is that tiny ''T'' in the end, which stands for transgender.Maybe you're thinking that I oppose transgender rights. That is incorrect, I am a liberal person, whatever you want to do with your body, however you want to dress and live your life is not something I will oppose.But the transgender movement is very different from the gender equality movement, and in a way they contradict each other. While the gay rights movement wants to equalize gender and gender roles, the transgender movement does the exact opposite thing - it exaggerates gender roles, and it basically preaches that you have to do surgeries on your body in order to act and be what you want to be. It preaches that you have to do everything a ''woman'' does in order to feel like a ''woman'', and that in itself is extremely controversial.So I feel like the LGBT contradict themselves when fighting both equal rights, and at the same time preaching for transgender rights. It just feels like two opposite causes, and I don't get it.I was very fond of the organization GLAAD, before they decided to include transgender rights.I probably sound like a total anti-transgender rights person right now, I get that. But it's not the message I want to send, what I wanted was basically to start a debate about whether transgenderism supports or contradicts the argument of gender equality.