Editing LGBT (section)

== Criticism of the term ==
[[File:Were a gay and happy family wagon.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|LGBT families, like these in a 2007 [[LGBT culture in Boston|Boston]] [[pride parade]], are labeled as ''[[non-heterosexual]]'' by researchers for a variety of reasons.<ref name="The Spectre of Promiscuity">{{cite book | last = Klesse | first = Christian | title= The Spectre of Promiscuity: Gay Male and Bisexual Non-Monogamies and Polyamories | publisher=Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. | isbn = 978-0-7546-4906-9 | year= 2007 | url =https://books.google.com/books?id=_UR77Hw2WLYC }}{{clarify |reason=Does this source really claim that trans individuals are "non-heterosexual"? This needs a page number, and an excerpt. |date=May 2018}}{{better source needed |reason=As the title of the reference indicates, this book is about gay males and bisexuals; an assertion about "LGBT families" would be better off in a book covering all facets of LGBT. |date=May 2018}}</ref>]]
The initialisms ''LGBT'' or ''GLBT'' are not agreed to by everyone that they encompass.<ref name="finnegan" /> For example, some argue that transgender and transsexual causes are not the same as that of lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) people.<ref name="Coming Out in Christi">{{cite book | last=Wilcox | first=Melissa M. | title= Coming Out in Christianity: Religion, Identity, and Community | publisher=Indiana University Press | year=2003|isbn= 978-0-253-21619-9|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=yjdhpMnHEIMC}}</ref> This argument centers on the idea that being transgender or transsexual have to do more with gender identity, or a person's understanding of being or not being a man or a woman irrespective of their sexual orientation.<ref name="alexander"/> LGB issues can be seen as a matter of sexual orientation or attraction.<ref name="alexander"/> These distinctions have been made in the context of political action in which LGB goals, such as [[same-sex marriage]] legislation and [[human rights]] work (which may not include transgender and intersex people), may be perceived to differ from transgender and transsexual goals.<ref name="alexander"/>

A belief in "lesbian & gay separatism" (not to be confused with the related "[[lesbian separatism]]"), holds that lesbians and gay men form (or should form) a community distinct and separate from other groups normally included in the LGBTQ sphere.<ref name="Gays/Justice">{{cite book
 | last=Mohr | first=Richard D. | title=Gays/Justice: A Study of Ethics, Society, and Law | publisher=Columbia University Press
 | year=1988|isbn= 978-0-231-06735-5 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=dfUw8Zl0kPEC | access-date= 2008-07-05 }}</ref> While not always appearing of sufficient number or organization to be called a [[social movement|movement]], separatists are a significant, vocal, and active element within many parts of the LGBT community.<ref name="Sexual Identities, Queer Politi"/><ref name="Gays/Justice"/><ref name="Gay and Lesbian Polit">{{cite book
 | last=Blasius | first=Mark | title=Gay and Lesbian Politics: Sexuality and the Emergence of a New Ethic | publisher=Temple University Press | year=1994|isbn=978-1-56639-173-3 |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=89C9DGEertsC}}</ref> In some cases separatists will deny the existence or right to equality of bisexual orientations and of transsexuality,<ref name="Sexual Identities, Queer Politi" /> sometimes leading public [[biphobia]] and [[transphobia]].<ref name="Sexual Identities, Queer Politi" /><ref name="Gays/Justice"/> In contrasts to separatists, [[Peter Tatchell]] of the LGBT human rights group [[OutRage!]] argues that to separate the transgender movement from the LGB would be "political madness", stating that:<ref name="LGB but Why T?">{{cite web|last1=Tatchell|first1=Peter|title=LGB - but why T?|url=http://www.mother-ship.com/blog/lgbt-lesbian-gay-bisexual-but-why-transgender-1721|website=mother-ship.com|publisher=Mothership Blog|access-date=18 March 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090703020520/http://www.mother-ship.com/blog/lgbt-lesbian-gay-bisexual-but-why-transgender-1721|archive-date=3 July 2009|date=24 June 2009|quote=To try and separate the LGB from the T, and from women, is political madness. Queers are, like transgender people, gender deviant. We don't conform to traditional heterosexist assumptions of male and female behaviour, in that we have sexual and emotional relationships with the same sex. We should celebrate our discordance with mainstream straight norms. The right to be different is a fundamental human right. The idea that we should conform to straight expectations is demeaning and insulting.|url-status=dead}}</ref> 
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Queers are, like transgender people, gender deviant. We don't conform to traditional heterosexist assumptions of male and female behaviour, in that we have sexual and emotional relationships with the same sex. We should celebrate our discordance with mainstream straight norms.[...]  </blockquote>

The portrayal of an all-encompassing "LGBT community" or "LGB community" is also disliked by some lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people.<ref name="That's Revolting">{{cite book
 | last=Sycamore | first=Matt Bernstein | title=That's Revolting!: Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation | publisher= Soft Skull Press | year=2005|isbn= 978-1-932360-56-1
 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=4moAP04OpPIC
 | access-date=2008-07-05}}</ref><ref name="The Political Edge">{{cite book | last=Carlsson | first=Chris | title=The Political Edge | publisher=City Lights Books | year=2005|isbn=978-1-931404-05-1|url = https://archive.org/details/politicaledge00carl
| url-access=registration |access-date=2008-07-05 }}</ref> Some do not subscribe to or approve of the [[LGBT rights|political and social solidarity, and visibility and human rights campaigning]] that normally goes with it including [[gay pride]] marches and events.<ref name="That's Revolting"/><ref name="The Political Edge"/> Some of them believe that grouping together people with non-heterosexual orientations perpetuates the myth that being gay/lesbian/bi/asexual/pansexual/etc. makes a person deficiently different from other people.<ref name="That's Revolting"/> These people are often less visible compared to more mainstream gay or LGBT activists.<ref name="That's Revolting"/><ref name="The Political Edge"/> Since this faction is difficult to distinguish from the heterosexual majority, it is common for people to assume all LGBT people support LGBT liberation and the visibility of LGBT people in society, including the right to live one's life in a different way from the majority.<ref name="That's Revolting"/><ref name="The Political Edge"/><ref name="Class Matters: Cr">{{cite book | last=Leondar-Wright | first=Betsy | title=Class Matters: Cross-Class Alliance Building for Middle-Class Activists
| publisher=New Society Publishers | year=2005|isbn= 978-0-86571-523-3
| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aD4yphfHBWMC}}</ref> In the 1996 book ''Anti-Gay'', a collection of essays edited by [[Mark Simpson (journalist)|Mark Simpson]], the concept of a 'one-size-fits-all' identity based on [[LGBT stereotypes]] is criticized for suppressing the individuality of LGBT people.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.marksimpson.com/pages/anti_gay.html |title=Anti-Gay |publisher=Marksimpson.com |access-date=2011-10-23 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927113556/http://www.marksimpson.com/pages/anti_gay.html |archive-date=September 27, 2011 }}</ref>

{{Anchor|Drop the T<!--redirect target-->}}Writing in the [[BBC News Magazine]] in 2014, [[Julie Bindel]] questions whether the various gender groupings now, "bracketed together" ... "share the same issues, values and goals?"  Bindel refers to a number of possible new initialisms for differing combinations and concludes that it may be time for the alliances to be reformed or finally go "our separate ways".<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-28130472|title=Viewpoint: Should gay men and lesbians be bracketed together?|author=Julie Bindel|date=2 July 2014|work=[[BBC News Magazine]]|access-date=4 July 2014|author-link=Julie Bindel}}</ref> In 2015, the slogan "Drop the T" was coined to encourage [[LGBT rights organization|LGBT organizations]] to stop support of [[transgender]] people; while receiving support from [[TERF|some feminists]]<ref>{{cite news | last=Glover | first=Katie | title=Why it's time to take the T out of LGBT | website=The Independent | date=2015-09-10 | url=http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/why-its-time-to-take-the-t-out-of-lgbt-10493352.html | access-date=2019-10-23}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | last=McCloy | first=Spencer | title=Why the LGBT Alliance Could Be on the Brink of Schism | website=The Heritage Foundation | date=2018-07-27 | url=https://www.heritage.org/gender/commentary/why-the-lgbt-alliance-could-be-the-brink-schism | access-date=2019-10-23}}</ref> as well as transgender individuals,<ref>{{cite web | title=Why it's time to remove the T from LGBT | website=Metro News | date=2015-04-06 | url=https://metro.co.uk/2015/04/06/why-its-time-to-remove-the-t-from-lgbt-5116737/ | access-date=2019-10-23}}</ref> the campaign has been widely condemned by many [[List of LGBT-related organizations and conferences|LGBT groups]] as [[transphobic]].<ref name=adv>{{cite web|url=http://www.advocate.com/transgender/2015/11/06/lgbt-groups-respond-petition-asking-drop-t|title=LGBT Groups Respond to Petition Asking to 'Drop the T'|date=6 November 2015|website=www.advocate.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2015/11/12/drop-the-t-counter-petition-surpases-original/|title=Signatures for 'Drop The T' counter-petition surpass original - PinkNews · PinkNews|website=www.pinknews.co.uk|date=2015-11-12}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.teenvogue.com/story/drop-the-t-petition-backlash|title=Why More Than 1,000 People Have Signed a Petition to Drop the "T" From LGBT|first=Condé|last=Nast|website=Teen Vogue}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/gay-transphobia-2015-styl_b_8546278|title=Gay Transphobia, 2015 Style|first1=Dana|last1=Beyer|first2=ContributorExecutive|last2=Director|first3=Gender Rights|last3=Maryl|date=12 November 2015|website=HuffPost}}</ref>

In December 29, 2020, the [[Women's Liberation Front]], an organisation noted for its opposition to [[gender identity]] legislation,<ref name=Haywood2016>{{cite news |url=http://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local%20news/radical-feminists-sue-obama-administration-in-new-mexico-court-over/article/53f86667-80aa-58dd-8d8c-299ca8b533d1.html |title=Radical feminists sue Obama administration in New Mexico court over bathroom directive |first=Phaedra |last=Haywood |date=August 12, 2016 |work=[[The Santa Fe New Mexican]] |access-date=March 7, 2019 }}</ref> published a media [[style guide]], in part as a response to the [[Trans Journalists Association]]'s guide having been adopted by the [[Society of Professional Journalists]].<ref name="Style guide release">{{Cite web |url=https://www.womensliberationfront.org/news/wolf-media-style-guide |title=WoLF Media Style Guide |publisher=Women's Liberation Front |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201231133126/https://www.womensliberationfront.org/news/wolf-media-style-guide |date=December 29, 2020 |archive-date=December 31, 2020 |access-date=December 31, 2020 }}</ref> Amongst other advice, the style guide recommended avoiding the term "LGBT" unless discussing topics relevant to "trans-identified individuals" as well as "lesbians, gays [and] bisexuals".<ref name="WoLF style guide">{{Cite web |url=https://www.womensliberationfront.org/s/Media-Style-Guide.pdf <!-- redirects to https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5f232ea74d8342386a7ebc52/t/5feca1b5ff4ef250d3f33570/1609343414215/Media+Style+Guide.pdf --> |title=2021 Media Style Guide |publisher=Women's Liberation Front |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201230214153/https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5f232ea74d8342386a7ebc52/t/5feca1b5ff4ef250d3f33570/1609343414215/Media+Style+Guide.pdf |date=December 29, 2020 |archive-date=December 30, 2020 |access-date=December 31, 2020 }}</ref>