Summarised by Centrist
Lesbian, gay and bisexual organisations from around the world have launched LGB International, formally declaring independence from the broader trans and queer movement.
Ani O’Brien, a well-known commentator in New Zealand’s gender-critical circles, said the new organisation is about reclaiming a movement “built by and for people who are same-sex attracted.”
“For years, we’ve been told ‘we’re stronger together.’ What that’s meant in practice is lesbians and gays being strong-armed out of our own spaces and accused of bigotry for having sexual boundaries,” O’Brien wrote. “No more. LGB International is about reclaiming what is ours.”
She argued that gay rights were won on the “hard reality of biological sex,” not on “a TQI+ free-for-all that has replaced clarity with confusion.”
LGB International’s mission statement commits to defending same-sex attracted people, supporting single-sex spaces, and protecting children from medical transition.
For O’Brien, the split is a matter of honesty and survival: “We’re not creating a split. We’re refusing to keep swallowing the poison.”
At the same time, new reporting in the United States shows the Department of Homeland Security under Kristi Noem has already shortened “LGBTQ+” to “LGB+” in internal intelligence reports.
Trans people are omitted entirely, even from assessments of hate-crime threats.
Read more over at Ani O’Brien Subtack and LGBTQ Nation
