Why is the gay community so toxic

In , Pepsi launched a high-budget TV advertisement featuring the wealthy and privileged model Kendall Jenner at a mock protest reminiscent of Black Lives Matter. But this broad use of the term has caused it to become heavily weaponised by both the left and the right, turning what was once a welcoming creed into a toxic and divisive word, particularly in Western countries including the US, Canada, the UK and other European nations.

However, it is also reasonable to listen to the women who are expressing concerns about what this might mean for women in private spaces, such as in changing rooms, toilets and, more significantly, prisons and services such as domestic violence shelters. They bash anyone who doesn't believe exactly in the parameters they've set.

The way some companies have tried to cringingly commercialise and adopt social movements and their language has also further devalued and trivialised the notion of wokeness. Unfortunately, the instinct of modern wokeness seems to be to shut down such debate. Trans activists are therefore campaigning to reduce these checks in order to make it easier to legally change sex.

Wokeness also implies that those not in the club are asleep, deluded or wrong. They're literally going backwards from what the original movement was. In it, she confessed that she had once been in an abusive relationship and could therefore see why single-sex spaces for vulnerable women should be protected.

But its origins are far from modern. More recently, it has been adopted as a ubiquitous watchword for a wide variety of social movements, including LGBTQ issues, feminism, immigration, climate change and marginalised communities. But one thing that often goes unmentioned is how toxic the LGBTQ+ community can be to those within the community.

Social media has also raised the stakes. Another example is the turbulent debate about trans-rights and gender identity. This toxicity is in large part due to activists failing to develop the necessary coalitions to instil the change campaigners are advocating for.

These voices deserve to be heard. So, she is protected by the law, but at the end of the day, she still lost her job. In its original use, it meant being alert to the specific discrimination and systemic harm suffered by African Americans. British tabloid The Sun shamelessly jumped at the chance to sell more papers by producing a front-page interview with the man who had abused Rowling, under the headline: I slapped JK and I am not sorry.

The moral superiority platform is hardly a way to bring sceptics on board, especially when wealthy and privileged campaigners who have co-opted wokeness do not even follow their own standards, such as celebrity Dame Emma Thompson, who flew across the world to join an Extinction Rebellion protest about climate change in London in This particular protest involved blocking bridges and roads in the heart of London, including stopping ambulances, and the public outrage was so great that it damaged its own cause, as it provided the impetus for a new Police Bill which will restrict noise levels and timings for future protests.

Her tweets may have been poorly phrased and deeply offensive to some, but she now faces a potential jail term of up to six months — the same maximum length as a common assault charge against an emergency worker — with the possibility of her autistic children being taken into care.

It seems some civil society institutions have also become more radical, leaving even their original champions flustered. The trouble starts when campaigns over-reach, alienating moderate supporters. The Gay Community’s Obsession With Status and Looks Has Huge Mental Health Costs Researchers are finding that racism, competition, and a fixation on sex within the gay and bi community are driving anxiety and depression.

Simon Fanshawe, a pioneer in equality rights and founder of Stonewall, was disowned by the very charity he founded for merely highlighting concerns from women about the introduction of self-ID for trans people, signalling that the charity now mandates only rigid conformity to its new focus on gender ideology and a hierarchy of wokeness that is splitting the progressive agenda.

But the crippling of an essential service only meant further division and long-term damage to the cause. Wokeness can also shut down good causes. One of them was a picture of a suffragette ribbon tied to a fence, which a complainant had described as a noose. There’s a fear of not being treated well by law enforcement, especially with BIPOC community members, and a lack of shelter.

And the hate towards cis/straight people is fucking toxic. It is easy to see how this has happened. The aforementioned Maya Forstater took her former employer, the Washington-based, Hillary-Clinton-friendly, international development think-tank, the Center for Global Development, to an employment tribunal to contest the decision not to renew her contract.

Trans people want to be accepted for who they are, including being legally recognised as the gender they wish. To large swaths of the general public, this all screams of political correctness gone mad. The UK already provides a Gender Recognition Certificate, through which one can change their legal sex but only after time requirements and medical checks, which many in the trans community consider demeaning.

This instant judgement forms a dividing line, forcing the other side to become defensive and further entrenching the debate. They say they're for inclusivity and welcome everyone but I hope you aren't cis or straight if you dare talk to them. Rowling penned an emotional essay to explain her rationale for supporting Forstater.

First, there are stigmas that go with the LGBTQ+ community – a “boys will be boys” attitude when the abuse is in a gay male relationship, and with lesbians, the idea that if there’s no man, there’s no abuse.