Many of the most impassioned activists who are against including the T with the LGB are themselves part of the latter. Groups such as the LGB Alliance have formed in recent years as a direct reaction to the forced teaming of the LGB and the T.
Partly this is to dissociate themselves from the bad reputation that mainstream LGBT activists are giving the movement. The drag shows for children are part of this. Really, this really should have nothing at all to do with being gay, or trans for that matter, yet it's being promoted and defended by various LGBT activist groups.
But the main reason to separate the LGB out from the T is because having one's sexuality rewritten from being same-sex attracted to same-gender, as has happened with this ideological change that centers gender identity instead of sex, is a quite offensive form of erasure.
By and large, lesbian women (female) aren't romantically or sexually interested in transwomen (male). And the same for gay men (male) and transmen (female). From an shared activism point of view, it makes little sense for the LGB to be stuck with this modern incarnation of the T.
Partly this is to dissociate themselves from the bad reputation that mainstream LGBT activists are giving the movement. The drag shows for children are part of this. Really, this really should have nothing at all to do with being gay, or trans for that matter, yet it's being promoted and defended by various LGBT activist groups.
But the main reason to separate the LGB out from the T is because having one's sexuality rewritten from being same-sex attracted to same-gender, as has happened with this ideological change that centers gender identity instead of sex, is a quite offensive form of erasure.
By and large, lesbian women (female) aren't romantically or sexually interested in transwomen (male). And the same for gay men (male) and transmen (female). From an shared activism point of view, it makes little sense for the LGB to be stuck with this modern incarnation of the T.