Well reasoned response but I think there is a logical gap here that I will try to expose. You see, I think what we pushed for during the Civil Rights Movement was to be treated like human beings and be given the right to participate in society economically, socially, etc.
This is where the disconnect usually happens, at the conflation of content and structure. All of the things you mention here are content, in which case I would agree with you. But, I was speaking to structure, which can and does have any and all types of Content. Although I did use a content reference (acknowledged in context) to highlight the structure.
I'm speaking to the structure that is the relationship between dominant group and subordinate group. The content does not speak to the structure. It's like a Mr. Potato Head. The body with the holes is the structure. The content is the features (the eyes, ears, nose, etc.) you plug into the holes.
If you saw my house and said "your house is just like mine" and I replied "no it isn't, I have a rug imported from China in the family room, a picture of MLK over the fireplace and my dining room table is handcarved" you would look at me like I was crazy. In this case, it's pretty much universally understood you were talking about structure and not content.
It's completely understandable that we conflate the 2 when someone says something like "the gay struggle is like the black struggle" because white supremacy does in fact use structural similarities to manipulate our perception of content. This was not my intent and possibly not even there's. I say that because of this:
I knew it was going to go here.
This says to me you've overlaid at least parts of a previous conversation/understanding on top of my response. This caused you to look for keywords to confirm rather than comprehending my words as fresh new ideas. Even if you read the whole response, you decided you already knew what it meant before you read it so the nuances of my response were overlooked. I'm not judging or blaming, this phenomenon is completely unconscious, 99.9% of us do it in different forms 100% of the waking hours of our day. (Not an ounce of judgment because How could God judge God in another form)
, I don't see transsexuals or any other person as an "other", I see them as people just like me.
This is the tree of oppression. They are not people like you, THEY ARE YOU. The mind resists this truth. There is a lot of latitude between fighting for someone like you and fighting for yourself. It's all unconscious. Our oppression continues because we fight to be treated like them instead of fighting for the collective understanding that we ARE them.
In this context, the content of fighting for something like Reparations for the descendants of slaves is not lost but strengthened. "Look at what you doing to YOURSELF, you are denying YOUR SELF justice." Is a better argument than the one we use (generally) because it is a TRUER argument.
So I'm not asking the LGBT community to wait, I'm asking them to not push too far to where it starts to take freedoms away from others.
The abolition of slavery was literally taking freedoms away from others. I highlight this CONTENT in this specific way only to illuminate the piece of the STRUCTURE that says freedom to the dominant group isn't the same as freedom to the subordinate group. I am in no way speaking to the CONTENT. I am not saying whether the CONTENT of women being exposed to male genitalia in their spaces is wrong or right.
I've been keeping my responses free of speaking to content up to this point because if we cannot decipher structure from content, as the dominant group, we will always make oppressive content. Personally, I believe one reason God Universe has not relinquished to us the CONTENT that is Reparations is because we have not yet learned how to avoid the STRUCTURE of a dominant group that gives way to oppression. Take the Jews for an example of a subordinate group that gained dominance but did not understand the STRUCTURE of what dominance entails, therefore they became the oppressors themselves.
I'm talking about understanding God. The STRUCTURE is a manifestation of God. We make hateful or loving CONTENT based on our understanding or lack of understanding of the STRUCTURE.
That being said, there is unloving content being created in the form of exposing genitalia to individuals who seek out a safe space from such things or unfair advantages in sports. I believe the answers are in much of what you say, communication, but I would add communication with the understanding that I am communicating with myself in another body. From the angle of we are not talking to people like ourselves but actually to ourselves, there can be nothing but compassion and all parties put forth their best efforts to solve the problems without the STRUCTURE unconsciously undermining us.