Gay Inc.

You see me using the term "Gay Inc." a lot, it means gays that put themselves before others. That money is more important to them then other people rights.

Anti-trans gay people are putting their own rights in danger in their war on trans people

The Supreme Court case on conversion therapy shows that some cis gays won't pass up an opportunity to attack trans kids, even if they hurt their own.

LGBTQ Nation

By Faefyx Collington (They/Them)

October 14, 2025

As trans rights issues have entered the mainstream discourse, there’s been a growing vocal minority in the LGBTQ+ community who want to separate the fight for gender-based rights from those related to sexual orientation. With the Supreme Court seeming open to overturning conversion therapy bans with the support of LGB-without-the-T groups, the queer community is split in a perfect illustration of Niemöller’s “First They Came.”

Trans people have always been a part of the fight for LGBTQ+ rights. Before we even had the term “transgender,” figures like Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera were playing important roles in the LGBTQ+ civil rights movement. Explorations of gender expression have often been vilified by the establishment, and pushing back has helped to support rights based on sexual orientation as well.

You see many gays rode on our coat-tails for our rights. When we lead at Dewey's in 1959! When we lead at The Cooper Do-nuts in 1965! When we lead at Compton Cafeteria in 1966! When we lead at Silver Lake’s Black Cat Tavern in '67! And then in '69 at the Stonewall Uprising!

Then "Gay Inc" pushed us out of the way of the was saying we only want gays who can assimilate into society... we don't want no trans people, we don't want any flaming gays nor butch dykes eithers!

But some groups want to forget that. Whether it’s Gays Against Groomers (GAG), the Women’s Liberation Front (WoLF), or the UK’s LGB Alliance and its spin-off LGB International, there are activist groups out there who are so driven by anti-trans hate that they are willing to sell out their own hard-fought-for rights to eliminate trans rights. These are members of the queer community who think that since marriage equality has passed and political hate is directed elsewhere, they can pull the ladder up behind them and forget about the trans people who helped them.

You want to guess what is on Project 2025 hit-list?

The Supreme Court just heard a case on conversion therapy on minors... trans minors.

Gays Against Groomers released a statement when it was announced that the Supreme Court would hear the conversion ban case. The group claims that they stand “in firm opposition to this unconstitutional law.” They claim that it “denies individuals—including detransitioners and others seeking care—the right to pursue solutions they voluntarily agree upon with their providers.”

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WoLF filed an amicus brief in Chiles, urging the court to overturn Colorado’s conversion therapy ban. In their brief, they talk about “transing the gay away,” claiming (without support) that “Many young people who come to identify as transgender later realize that they were simply gay, lesbian, or bisexual.” They go on to note that “Ironically, the kind of therapy that once harmed gay youth (by trying to ‘convert’ them to heterosexuality) is now being reversed and rebranded – by pushing them toward transition.”

The court case was just about a therapist who claimed "1^st Amendment" rights! But what about the child's rights?

Sitting on the sidelines with an “I’ve got mine” mentality isn’t going to work. If they can take an inch, they can take a mile, and groups like GAG and WoLF won’t win any prizes for their Uncle Tom act.

But like most Republicans they live in a state of denial! Just like Trump it is Me, Me, Me!

In the spring 2007 I went to Washington DC to lobby for the federal Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), we were given a pep-talk by the HRC which promised full support of the gender inclusive ENDA. By the time fall came around we had a knife in our back... the HRC backed the bill that removed us from the bill! 

Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) removed us from the bill lying that we newcomers to lobbying for the bill! Even though for over ten years we have been lobbying for the bill... it was even a trans who first proposed of a federal non-discrimination at a conference in 1992! At Phyllis Frye’s International Conference on Transgender Law and Employment Policy conference the federal nondiscrimination proposal including gender identity was proposed in 1992.

Like all communities we are not homogenous but the lard sinks to the bottom of the barrel!