The difference between LGB versus Trans activists is crazy.
LGB activists campaign for decriminalising gay relationships, legalising same-sex marriage, preventing homophobic bullying and hate crimes, and the right for a same-sex couple to raise a child. LGB activists, at least in my knowledge and experience, have always supported studies that critically assess whether children do well when raised by two same-sex parents compared to opposite-sex parents (overall, they do). LGB activists are often the first to decry grooming within the community, and quick to devow predators and p3dos. Usually, all that LGB activists expect young children to be told is that some children have two mummies, and some have two daddies, just like other children are raised by single mothers, grandparents, and so on. The goal has always remained the same: for LGB people to be treated equally and to be safe from discrimination. I also find that the LGB community usually shrug off homophobes and don't give them the time of day. Because it doesn't matter if someone says they aren't gay. That doesn't change anything.
Trans activists, however, campaign for men to be allowed in women's spaces (bathrooms, sport, prisons, nursing homes...) on the basis of an inner feeling. They promote minors transitioning, with some gender therapists taking in clients as young as 2 or 3 years old. (Jazz Jennings was diagnosed with gender dysphoria at age 3.) They campaign for trans surgeries on the NHS. They campaign for children to discuss their own gender identity in schools (the GenderBread person, kids' books on being trans...). They campaign for minors to receive hormones in school without their parents' knowledge or consent. Unlike LGB activists, I've noticed an unsavoury desire to sweep anything negative about trans people under the rug. Anything that is contradictory to their message (like the fact that after "bottom surgery", the likelihood of suicide increases; or the fact that hormone blockers do cause infertility, according to WPATH; or detransitioner testimonies) is swept under the rug. Predators and p3dos are protected (Eli Erlick anyone?) or just not talked about because of "optics". They don't want research, unless it shows that 100% of the time, everything is fine and dandy. And unlike LGB activists, trans activists are obsessive about any negative perspective on trans people. If someone calls a gay guy straight, he shrugs it off because it doesn't change anything. If someone called a trans identified man a man, he can't shrug it off, because the whole point is that everyone has to go along with it. Though they talk about an inner identity, their entire "manhood"/"womanhood" is very fragile and very precarious. I don't care if someone calls me he, because I'm not one. But for a trans identified man? That's his worst nightmare, because it reveals a truth: he can't change his sex. This is who he is.
And here's the one most insidiuous thing I've noticed. "It gets better" is a very prominent phrase in the LGB community. "Don't worry. Things will get better. The world is becoming more accepting, there's a time where you'll feel safe to come out, and soon you'll live a happy life with your partner." This is what they tell young or newly out members of the community.
None of this rhetoric in the trans community. Trans activists are so fear-mongering - instead of promoting the idea that it gets better, it promotes the idea of a current trans genocide. "Right-wing voters hate you. TERFs want you dead. J.K. Rowling has blood on her hands. You are an incredibly vulnerable individual, and people like you get hate crimed, and the world isn't safe for us. The world hates you. Only we will accept you." That's what trans activists tell just about everyone.
I just think it's crazy. LGB activism has always been straightforward, with one overall goal in mind. But what is the end goal of trans activism? Does one even exist? Because the goalposts keep shifting.