Make of that what you will.

No it is not. Please don't spread mistruths.

> and are widely regarded in the UK as a thinly disguised hate group

I doubt that most people in the UK have heard of this charity. Also this is a very disingenuous view of their aims.

I can’t find evidence of this, and the LGBA website says their primary funding comes from individual donations.

https://staging.lesbianandgaynews.com/2021/10/gary-powell-wh...

The above article makes this point:

Why would it donate to an organisation that campaigns for lesbian, gay and bisexual rights, that has an overwhelmingly left-wing membership, and that was founded by two left-wing lesbian feminists?

- given the LGBA’s position is:

“(W)e do not, and will not, forge links with, or accept funding from, any organisation… that seeks to undermine women’s reproductive rights.”

- which the Heritage Foundation oppose, I gather.

I’m inclined to believe the Heritage Foundation link is a untruth, to be honest. Given the LGBA’s charitable status I guess we’ll get definitive evidence at some point.

I think being such a niche cause that only your notional political enemies pursuing a divide and conquer strategy will work with you internationally is what most people mean when they accuse a cause of being "astroturfed"

[For the avoidance of doubt I fully agree that in other respects, they do not share the same political views and that they are not closet hardline antifeminists in disguise]

[citation needed]

It’s a tricky read, but a gist might be that most Brits are generally well-meaning, fairly uninformed, and tend to be conservative when asked questions about specific scenarios:

“Recognition: most Britons say that people should be able to change their social gender, but are split on whether they should be able to change their legal gender”

“Process: Britons oppose making it easier to legally change gender“

“Access to sport: Britons oppose transgender athletes taking part in sporting events for their new gender”

“Access to treatment: Britons are split on the NHS providing hormone therapy for trans people, and tend to oppose it providing gender reassignment surgery”

https://www.badlawproject.com/cases

They highlight a case with Amy Gallahger, who is an adamant "anti-CRT" activist per her Twitter.

So it seems they were focused on other things, but have pivoted to anti-trans activism(hence the amount of Pride imagery on their front page).

Tactically it makes sense. They are following the lead of other such organizations by focusing on anti-trans rhetoric, as it is currently more palatable, before pivoting back to marginalizing other minorities.

People have a legal and moral right to self-associate with those they choose and to exclude those sabotaging their political movements.

You appear to be saying a HOMOsexual focused organization is being HOMOphobic by wanting to focus only on HOMOsexuals.

But no, I'm not apologizing. I can't see anything wrong with any subgroup wanting to focus their attention more-directly on themselves. Do Indigenous people not have the right to their own organizations since the popularization of the BIPoC acronym?

The answer is, of course, that "we" don't lump them together; the group as a whole has decided to band together because the persecution and opression they suffer is in many ways shared, and often the kind of person who would persecute one of the groups would persecute all of them. But it's not "anti-trans" or "anti-LGBT" to ask this question.

(Consider "Asian-American", which is more a political/activist construct than anything else, given that "Asian" describes a bunch of different groups, some of which may not have all that much in common culturally or even politically.)

The organization in question may also be anti-trans (or anti-LGBT as a whole), but that's... a separate issue?

This particular group was formed to combat the notion of LGBT identity. So it isn't unreasonable to class it as anti-LGBT, in addition to also holding more specifically anti-T positions.

That's not dishonest, that's a strategic show of strength.

I'm not LGBT, but I do personally know LGB people who don't like the Ts being lumped in with them. They aren't anti-trans by any means, but they see it as a different thing that tends to distract from the LGB and causes more strife. I also know LGB people who share your philosophy and are perfectly happy to have the Ts onboard.

I'm just explaining my POV as an outsider.