All valid points. But, I'm not just talking about queer and trans folks interacting with the normative world. I'm also talking about how we communicate with each other. In fact, last night at our Friday Night Happy Hour, one of our trans residents said virtually the same thing to me... that there is too much virtual censorship within the LGBTQ+ (she calls it the TGBQ) community, a lack of acceptance of disparate points of view and policing of language and limited acceptable subjects of discussion.

Movements are often self-defeating because of bickering within, people taking dogmatic positions and vying for control over the tactics and language and marketing of the cause. I was a member of SDS in '67 and '68. Camps with hardline philosophies tore a longstanding activist organization apart. That allowed more radical, violent spinoffs to fracture the left.

This kind of dynamic shrinks the movement rather than expands it and pits one faction against another. Ultimately, by the early '70s, general public opinion pressured Nixon to put an end to U.S. involvement in Vietnam... not so much the peace movement itself, which had fractured into competing factions.

That's what I see happening within the LGBTQ+ community... factions taking hardline positions, establishing strict, acceptable ways of thinking, their own cryptic language, while losing sight of the bigger picture. Echo chambers within a larger echo chamber, where the message can't possibly get out because we're only talking to each other and refusing to speak in language that the straight can understand.