It is less obvious why gay people did not rebel against their cause being hitched to a less popular one that had already cost them a likely legislative victory. One reason was no doubt natural sympathy for another minority. At least as salient, however, was that the main demands of transactivists – namely, that transwomen should gain access to women’s spaces and, if sexually interested in women, be regarded as lesbians – did not discommode gay men, whose interests had always taken precedence in LGB activism.
