There Is No LGB Without The T: Why LGBTQ+ Solidarity Matters

Recent years have seen growing attempts to divide the LGBTQ+ community by excluding trans and non binary people from conversations around equality, rights, and Pride. But LGBTQ+ history has always been deeply interconnected. The rights, visibility, and freedoms many lesbian, gay, and bisexual people experience today were built through collective struggle, resistance, and solidarity across the entire queer community.

Trans people, particularly trans women of colour such as Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera, played a significant role in the early LGBTQ+ rights movement and the fight for liberation following the Stonewall riots. Attempts to erase or distance trans people from LGBTQ+ history not only distort the past, but can also deepen division, stigma, and harm within the community itself.

In this video, I reflect on the importance of LGBTQ+ solidarity, why trans rights remain deeply connected to the wider queer community, and why protecting one another matters in the face of growing hostility and political division. There is no LGB without the T.

If any of this resonates with you and you’d like support exploring it further, I offer LGBTQ+ affirming therapy both online and in person from my practice in Manchester city centre. You’re welcome to get in touch to arrange a free 15 minute introductory call.e watch this short video

Gavin Reid LGBTQ+ therapist

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Gavin Reid BA (Hons), MBACP is an LGBTQ+ affirming therapist based in Manchester, offering online and in person counselling for LGBTQ+ adults. He is an Advanced Accredited Gender, Sexual and Relationship Diversity (GSRD) Therapist with Pink Therapy and has over 1,000 hours of client experience supporting LGBTQ+ people.

His work focuses on LGBTQ+ mental health, shame, identity, minority stress, relationships, trauma and recovery and the impact of growing up in non affirming environments. Alongside professional training in counselling, trauma and GSRD therapy, Gavin also brings lived experience and a deep understanding of the challenges many LGBTQ+ people face.

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Gavin Reid LGBTQ+ therapist

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Gavin Reid BA (Hons), MBACP is an LGBTQ+ affirming therapist based in Manchester, offering online and in person counselling for LGBTQ+ adults. He is an Advanced Accredited Gender, Sexual and Relationship Diversity (GSRD) Therapist with Pink Therapy and has over 1,000 hours of client experience supporting LGBTQ+ people.

His work focuses on LGBTQ+ mental health, shame, identity, minority stress, relationships, trauma and recovery and the impact of growing up in non affirming environments. Alongside professional training in counselling, trauma and GSRD therapy, Gavin also brings lived experience and a deep understanding of the challenges many LGBTQ+ people face.

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