Clearly there is a pecking order of preferred minorities in this country right now - gays must be at or near the top.....
There's always been a competition on the left for whose victimhood is the most victimated at any given moment! I can't find the really good concise poker hand explanation for this, but here's a good in depth article that explains it. It is a little older though, so 'trans' is still lumped with homosexuality, even though nowadays 'trans' is probably near the top of the victimhood pile, close to Muslim.
Understanding the Hierarchy of Groups within the Cultural Marxist Schema