The trans lobby desperately needs the gay rights movement, because we were successful and they are not. The polling on trans issues continues to be absolutely dire, and totally out of sync with the narrative that's being pushed. What activists call "extremist views" are consistently held by a decisive majority of the public. A June 2022 Ipsos poll commissioned by NPR, using NPR preferred language (for example, "gender transition medical care"), found a huge majority (63%) opposed to even such 'basic' demands as letting trans women play women's sports. Not even a majority of Democrats supported it, and independents hated it. Other polls show even less support for greater demands.
I always expected the LGB Alliance to be roundly attacked by the trans lobby, and that's indeed what is happening. The trans lobby needs LGBT to be a package deal, because protections for "sexual orientation and gender identity" get voted into law, but "gender identity" alone don't.
I'm not opposed to trans rights, but it does sting that the trans lobby has hijacked fifty years of slow, methodical, patient and hard-won progress on gay rights to wage a war for totally unrelated issues, many of which are far more nuanced than the gays' simple request to be left alone ever was. And they've completely hollowed out our advocacy groups - open any gay rights org website today, or any gay news mag, and it's 90% trans news.