Are the LGB backing away from the TQ?

I spend some time on Twitter, or as it is otherwise known the "Digital Town Square. A place where people come and discussions are had, and it can be a wild suburb. Over recent weeks I've been seeing something that has intrigued me, and I wanted to think aloud about it. I'm seeing a lot of comments from the LGB community apologising for the behaviour of the TQ cohort. They are telling us not to judge them on the antics of the latter group, and insisting that the majority of LGB people just want to lead normal and productive lives. Reading this made me sad. Why should a group of people who happen to be gay feel they need to apologise for the actions of a group that does not speak for them? I mean, most of us can tell the difference between a person who happens to be gay and those for whom everything is seen through the lens of identity. The LGB community fought long and hard for deserved acceptance, so I'm wondering if there is some anxiety around whether these rights could now be at risk given the behaviour of some very vocal elements of the trans community. My suspicion is that most of the trans community probably feel the same as those LGB voices I refer to. Horrified at what a radical cohort is up to. Just wanting to be left alone to be the truest version of themselves. I mean, isn't that what everybody wants? Well apparently not, at least not if you've been watching the news of late. My instinct, and that's all it is, is that many of us share the same confusion as to how the extremists came to such prominence. Advocating for gender therapy for very young kids is a hugely controversial area. Putting kids on puberty blockers and providing sometimes irreversible surgeries at an age when they will be, for the most part, lacking the cognitive capacity to make informed decisions. Now statistics tell us that the most vulnerable group here are autistic kids and those suffering from gender dysphoria. I've got skin in the game here as I have one kid who is autistic and another who has experienced gender dysphoria and who identifies as non binary. Consider for a moment that around 87% of the latter, by their late teens or early 20's tender to experience a reduction in symptoms, and typically just settle into being Gay, it makes clear why there is such a profound risk in starting gender therapy treatments too soon. Only it gets worse, the cocktail of drugs offered, and the surgeries undertaken can have massive complications, leaving kids permanently mutilated, and in some cases sterile and unable to experience sexual arousal. These problems do not have an easy fix. So congratulations to those who think it is a marvellous idea to allow kids to go through this in haste. You've just sterilised a shit ton of gay kids. Now do you understand why I am so vocal about these issues? Why I do not shirk in expressing my opposition? You see, I happen to think that wrecking the bodies and hopes of gay kids is generally not cool, and as a society we might want to insist that these major decisions can only be made in adulthood. Oh yeah, and for those of you who've bought the myth that its better to have a living trans child than a dead non trans one, you might want to check some of the research here. There is NO trans genocide. In the same way there NO black genocide. Pro tip, stop accepting everything you are told and actually do the hard yards to educate yourself. This will also provide the added bonus of empowering you when, from time to time, you find yourself in discussion with an advocate of what is glibly described as "Gender affirming care". Don't lose a wink of sleep when somebody accuses you of being anti trans, by the way. If you are educated on the matter it won't take long before you realise that your position is actually enabling a young and vulnerable section of our community to have the best possible chance of leading positive and fulfilling lives. It's a hard subject, and an emotive one. But we are having to face it because the wellbeing of kids is at stake. I'd suggest that's worth fighting for. None of this suggests kids should be discouraged with experimenting with their image, their perception of self etc. It's important that they can and do. It's just we need to have an awareness that certain options should be off the table until their brains have developed sufficiently to see the implications of what they desire.