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Conservative Gay Commentator: Gays And The Trans Community "Need A Divorce"

"If the gay community allows the trans community to... redefine the movement as one seeking to upend the human experience, it does so at its own peril."

In an opinion piece for USA Today, conservative commentator Joseph Murray insists the gay community should sever ties with trans people.

"Is the plight of the trans person the same as the gay or lesbian person?" asks Murray, who is openly gay and once served on the presidential campaign of Pat Buchanan. "Are gay and transgender folks one and the same, or is there a good cause to argue that 'L' & 'G' should drop the 'T' from their movement?"

His suggestion: "The gay community needs to file for divorce with the trans community. They are no longer working toward the same goals."

Murray's comments were inspired by the spate of anti-trans bills in Virginia , South Dakota and elsewhere.

Murray, who also worked for the American Family Association, seems stuck on the question of biology, which he claims differentiates trans people from the gay community:

Unlike members of the trans community, who are working against their biology and trying to change who they are physically, gay or lesbian people are trying to be nobody but themselves.

They are not seeking surgery or hormone treatments. They love the same gender; they don’t want to be a different gender.

His fear, and one he purports many in the gay community share, is that trans activists will hijack the movement for their own agenda.

It is one thing to seek acceptance of two men saying "I do." It is another to ask Americans to accept boys sharing bathrooms and locker rooms with their daughters at school.

If the gay community allows the trans community to co-opt its success and redefine the movement as one seeking to upend the human experience, it does so at its own peril.

Murray must be forgetting the countless trans activists who have fought for the rights he enjoys as a cisgender gay man.

The world is full of people who are against us—we don't need to turn on each other.

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