You need to be a materialist to understand what I'm saying here (
I'm not joking). I could tell you "the fight of one protects the fight of others" but you wouldn't really get it. It's kind of an advanced leftist thinking.
Basically : The system of the oppression of LGBTQI+ is interconnected which means that there is no fighting one of these groups without oppressing the others, the fight against Trans people (
because it's usually trans people that are targeted in the west) is deeply linked to the fight of against LGB people and IQ+ people in general. This is a simple logic of systemic oppression.
If you want a radical allegory, picture a cliff on a snowy mountain:
> LGBTQI+ people here are represented by the two red points (lgb > At the bottom & TQi+ on Top)
> All the snow scattered in an unstable manner on the face of the mountain is the entire spectra of right of ALL LGBTQI+.
Technically the red dots are separated. Right?
But when you look closer, you understand that the entire field is an interconnection of unstable snow (
unstable rights). The ENTIRE face of the mountain is -
in the case of this ex - connected together just like rights are connected in real life. One right opens the field for another, a liberty opens the window for another etc. And right are stacked up on top of each others as they form a mountain of snow and progress..
Now... What happens when you put an explosive on the top red dot ?? (
representing Trans, Queers and Intersex people)
Little spoilers:
In reality, the entire face of the mountain comes crashing down. Because what was the right stacked up just before the top of the "rights mountain" becomes the next visible target to fall.
And since right attacked by oppressive measure and linked by a bigger oppression that is actually an entire system of domination (
patriarchy in this case) ...
The entire mountain falls. And the red dot at the bottom end up completely smashed by the domination system combined with the strenghtening of oppressive measures.
This is what I means when I say that you can't be for gay and against Trans.
If you are against one group, your are targeting ALL OF THEM.
And you know what is even worse ?
The mountain of the right of LGBTQI+ are just part of the unstable snow on the mountain of the rights of the entire population of the planets.
Because ... what do you think happens when Trans people are targeted because they are considered ill? Well.. people with mental situation like me get targeted as well and it's now THEIR turn to lose rights, and when we lose all our rights, it's disabled people LIKE ME who lose their rights... until the one losing their rights are cis white men working in their factories...
Attacking the rights of people who want to simply live in peace, means creating an instability for the right of the entire population of the planet.
Because oppression does no stop when it's finish. Oppression demands more oppression and control. Until the system breaks or reset.