{"id":377279,"date":"2021-04-02T12:15:43","date_gmt":"2021-04-02T16:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=377279"},"modified":"2021-04-02T12:15:54","modified_gmt":"2021-04-02T16:15:54","slug":"why-is-t-in-lgbt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-is-t-in-lgbt\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Is T In LGBT?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">10<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwhy-is-t-in-lgbt%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=377279&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-335.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>Earlier this week, a friend and I went to a comedy club in Nashville.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Throughout the evening, the topics were selected from the usual comedic menu: Sexist jokes, racist jokes, commentary on COVID-19, Donald Trump, and Joe Biden. There were even some Tennessee-related roadkill quips thrown in.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Toward the end of the evening, however, one comedian approached the black hole of immediate comedy death that is transgenderism. After laughing through every sexist, racist, and political joke, a few audience members suddenly started to boo when the comedian made a comparatively innocuous joke about a man who decided to become a woman. To add context, these same audience members almost fell off their chairs with laughter after one joke involving animal abuse.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In a strange attempt to escape the void in which he was suddenly trapped, the comedian decided to spark a discussion with an audience member who said he was gay. Citing the fact that the \u201cLGBT\u201d (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender) community is viewed as a collective unit, the comedian asked the audience member a question about how sex change surgery works.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI don\u2019t know, I\u2019m gay,\u201d the man responded, triggering arguably the most raucous laughter of the evening.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Jokes aside, this was actually a pivotal moment that sums up the absurdity of the entire notion of the LGBT community: Why are these four groups united under one banner?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Another comedian, Dave Chappelle, made that&nbsp;same point in 2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cYou hear all those letters together all the time \u2014 LBGT, LBGT \u2014 and you think it\u2019s just one big movement. It\u2019s not. All those letters are their own movement \u2014 they just travel in the same car together,\u201d Chappelle said during his \u201cSticks and Stones\u201d Netflix special.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Let\u2019s take it one step further. Why are they \u201cin the same car?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>It makes sense, of course, that lesbian, bisexual and gay people find themselves beneath a single \u201cmovement\u201d umbrella. With obvious differences, they all have sexual orientations outside of the strict \u201cmale-female\u201d relationship pairing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The \u201cidentity\u201d of transgender people, however, has nothing to do with sexual orientation, by definition. To be transgender, you believe that your sex and\/or gender does not match your \u201cbiological\u201d sex. The sexual orientation of such an individual is immaterial, and is often bootstrapped retrospectively as part of their broader identity. For example, a straight biological male who decides they are a woman will then describe himself as a \u201clesbian transgender woman,\u201d without any actual change to their original sexual orientation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Yes, it makes sense that transgender activists would work to shelter beneath the larger umbrella of \u201cLGB\u201d in order to build a more powerful coalition, but beyond a varying sense of victimhood in today\u2019s society, is there anything substantive that binds this ever more broad \u201cmovement\u201d together?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI don\u2019t know, I\u2019m gay,\u201d seems to suggest otherwise.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span>Ian Haworth is an editor and writer for The Daily Wire. Follow him on Twitter at <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ighaworth\"><i><span>@ighaworth<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week, a friend and I went to a comedy club in Nashville.Throughout the evening, the topics were selected from the usual comedic menu: Sexist jokes, racist jokes, commentary &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1893565,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-377279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1893565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}