You got THAT right!
I think that we're kidding ourselves if we think that 'T' is doing anything within LGBT other than helping to make up the numbers and that we (T) are rather more interested in being part of LGBT than LG&B are in having us! At present we have some usefulness in that we bulk up the numbers. But all that we really have in common with the LGB lobby is that we're the victims of discrimination etc. The L/G Lobby has been pretty successful in making progress towards L&G being perceived as "mainstream" (with B quietly riding their coat tails). The more progress they make in that regard then the greater the danger that we will become the rather awkward relation that no one wants to own up to! Cos we're not going to be "mainstream" anytime soon.
Having said that, I have to acknowledge that the girls who staff and frequent a certain well known lesbian bar in Soho, London are VERY friendly and accepting! I consider it to be a safe and welcoming place.
I woul;d not consider that to be a real conversation. I have been a member of a gender critical discussion group which includes both radical feminists and persons with a trans background. Interestingly, the fundamental positions with respect to gender are not so far apart. There are always golden calves to be slaughtered on both sides.
It seems that everyone wants to bite everyone in the ass all of the time ......
"Never forget the many ways there are to be human" (The Transsexual Taboo)