The vast majority of Pride organizations, the Human Rights Campaign, and grassroots queer spaces have rejected this "drop the T" rhetoric. They recognize that the arguments used against trans people today (predator panic, "erasure of women," "protect the children") are the exact arguments used against gay men in the 1980s.
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