Did gender activists hijack the gay-rights movement?
A growing number of detransitioned and desisted voices answer “yes,” and they point to three big shifts that happened after marriage equality was won.

1. Empty offices looked for a new cause
Once same-sex marriage became law in the U-S-A, large advocacy groups such as GLAAD suddenly had nothing left to campaign for.
"These organizations … suddenly had nothing to fight for any more, so they used trans to fill in the void and give themselves a reason to keep existing." – ApottotheOcto source [citation:2c6bf264-2555-487f-b99b-59299ec50a09]
The same budgets, contacts and mailing-lists that once lobbied for gay rights were re-purposed for trans issues almost overnight.

2. “We’re just like you” turned into “affirm us or else”
Early gay activism won public trust by saying same-sex couples wanted the same things everyone else wanted—steady jobs, mortgages, weddings.
"The original ‘pride’ was to show that same-sex attracted people were just like others … That’s how the LGBT won the fight for gay marriage; by being good neighbors." – ParticularSwanne source [citation:e2aa0348-2c33-4a9f-9ef0-aca1a46e6063]
Detransitioners say today’s trans activism flips that script: it demands that society re-arrange language, sports, bathrooms and even sexual-orientation boundaries, and labels any hesitation bigotry. The goodwill the L-B-G built has, in their view, been spent by the T-Q-plus.

3. Intersectionality glued every cause together, so criticism became taboo
Activists welded gay, feminist and race politics into one “queer” bloc.
"All of it is held together by the concept of ‘intersectionality’ … criticism of any facet of this movement means that you can be called any sort of buzz-word under the sun." – Hedera_Thorn source [citation:0529eb83-6f14-460e-ac53-55eaa81f0f51]
Because the pieces can’t be separated, questioning trans claims is treated as an attack on the whole L-G-B-T-Q alphabet. Detransitioners say this silences homosexual voices—especially lesbians—and makes sober discussion almost impossible.

Put simply, these witnesses believe that after 2015 the machinery built for gay rights was driven in a new direction: keep the funding, keep the slogan “LGBT,” but switch the cargo to gender-identity politics. They do not see this as an organic evolution; they see a deliberate hijack that now constrains everyone’s speech and, in their experience, harms gender-non-conforming youth who need room to explore without medical or social pressure.