Mia Ashton describes how it happened that lesbians are being attacked and disparaged. Here is an excerpt of her article at Public:

"[F]rom its conception, LGB Alliance was under attack. While Harris describes that first meeting as “joyous,” during which those who had been silenced and called bigots, transphobes, and neo-Nazis basked in the joy of meeting like-minded individuals, the announcement of their group’s formation just days later “unleashed the most extraordinary storm.”

“From that moment onwards, there was an absolute onslaught against us to try and squash us before we started,” recalls Harris. The reason for this was that, at that point, LGB Alliance was the only organization in the world that said it was okay to be gay or lesbian and not believe in gender identity.

In the deluge of abuse that followed, LGB Alliance was repeatedly called a hate group. Harris thinks it was LGB in the name that really made trans activists angry. “That implied that we hated the T. Well, we don’t agree. We think you can have a dogs’ charity who don’t hate cats.”

But according to Harris and Jackson, redefining homosexuality from same-sex attraction to same-gender attraction and insisting that heterosexual men can be lesbians is not the only harmful effect of trans activism on the LGB community.

Because another curious development was that Stonewall, and self-proclaimed LGBTQ+ activists, also started to advocate for the medicalization of adolescents who identify as transgender, many of whom are gay or lesbian. “This is what is happening in schools at the moment,” Jackson explained, “lesbian has become a dirty word. There was a time when being gay or lesbian was becoming more accepted, even among teenagers, but now it is not.” Now lesbians come out first as lesbians, then they call themselves non-binary, and then, “six months later, they’re trying to find testosterone, and they’re trying to have their breasts cut off.”