This story of a student being forced to leave their school after dissenting on gender identity beliefs is shocking.
How many young people would call themselves same-sex attracted if they knew it risked this sort of response?
How many right now are forced into the closet in order to “be kind”, and play along with the idea that gender identity is the basis of their orientation, rather than the sex-based attraction that they actually experience?
When we talk about the coercion and social pressure that lesbians in particular are facing to accept partners of the opposite sex, it is this sort of response and ostracisation that they fear.
Today is International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia.
But accusing lesbians and gay men of transphobia for being exclusively same-sex oriented IS the new homophobia.