Why are the T in LGBT you may ask? Transgender isn't a sexual orientation. Because this is the "freaks box" for straight people. They're all a bit fruity from our perspective so stick 'em all in there together. The weirdos. And our foremost gay charity agrees!

But some trans people are gay, you may say. Okay, what about gay left-handers, acrobats or stamp-collectors? Why don't they get a letter in the ever-growing all-inclusive acronym?

As the saying as it "once you let someone speak for you they become your tyrant." Or as Harvey Milk put it "we need gay people to speak for gay people not sympathetic liberals." Because they will always get it wrong (Hi, black people. I know what you mean now!)

Here's Stonewall in 2014 admitting we are separate communities with different needs. You can watch them take the wrong decision as if you were there in the room! https://www.stonewall.org.uk/system/files/trans_people_and_stonewall.pdf

"Almost everyone we spoke to rejected this option as it would be unfair for a lesbian, gay and bisexual organisation to decide which trans organisations and campaigns are most worthy of funding....

...The second is for Stonewall to nominally become an LGBT charity but support a sibling organisation to work on issues which specifically affect trans people...

... The advantage of this option is that a sibling organisation could have access to our operational infrastructure but employ its own methods and strategies to achieve change...

...However some people felt this would mean that we would delegate the more difficult aspects of campaigning for trans equality to another organisation who would lose the benefit of our existing brand and relationships...

...The process of setting up a separate but constitutionally connected organisation would be both time-consuming and legally complex. We believe that it would be unwise to spend time and resources doing so rather than working to achieve change" Why we were sold out, folks

Because gay rights is too "time-consuming and legally complex" for the complacent cash-fat charity that feeds of us and our names to bother. Their own words.

And while I have your attention, Stonewall may have abandoned gay people in return for richer funding opportunities and the social lives of its handsomely rewarded officers but here is the one organisation that hasn't; https://lgballiance.org.uk/donate/  @ALLIANCELGB