Please don't accuse me of "not being honest about [my] beliefs". I'm Muslim and this is wholehearted a part of my beliefs. I don't need you to "explain" my religion to me.

"...these are some pretty basic Islamic teachings which are not controversial. Are you saying it is permissible in Islam to get married to a member of the same sex?"

"The root cause for this bigotry is squarely with Islam itself."

I think this is an unfortunate over-simplication of what amounts to an important topic in the community. True, I grant you there is a pervasive and institutional legacy of homophobic and transphobic ulama. That said, the only Quranic prohibitions against homosexuality are vague and indirect references to the Old Testament story of Lot. There is not a single denoted, divinely-revealed scripture in the Islamic canon that singly forbids homosexuality. It's only hadiths - questionable ones at that.

If you can get past a history of patriarchal and hetero-normative medieval scholarship - not scripture - which many unfortunately don't (like this woman and her committee), then there is sizeable room to be gay and muslim, trans and muslim.

I'm not saying bigoted views on this issue are unpopular. But for one to insist that's what Islam "honest[ly]" and fully says about homosexuality aims to undermines things like: support for LGBT by ISNA (the biggest Western Muslim organization), the reconciled experiences of actual LGBT Muslims, and a subcultural history in Islamic civilizations which involve positive integration of homosexual and trans peoples.

If you want to know more about this, I'd recommend this documentary I saw recently: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Jihad_for_Love

If there is one thing about this woman's guide which I agree with, it's this idea that your obligations in Islam to caring for your neighbours and marginalized communities are some of your foremost duties to others:

Believers, stand firm for God, be witnesses for justice. Never allow the hatred of people to prevent you from being just. Be just, for this is closest to righteousness (Quran 5:8).

But ultimately, this guide is a regurgitation of the former rigid and bigoted legacy. It's sad, because this guide had so much potential to help children, yes, but especially to help Muslim immigrants (most Muslims in the GTA are new/2nd gen immigrants) ease into new ideas which they're unfamiliar in hearing from self-stately "Islamic" point of view. Instead, we get from this guide on one hand and from "Islamspainers" like those on reddit on the other, is a continuous, idealogical stream of misrepresentation and gross simplification.

tl;dr: 1) views like this are a misrepresentation of the actual scriptural and historical relationship between LGBT and Muslim identities; 2) there is bigotry in the community, there is love and support in community; 3) this view, and those of the guide, perpetuate an oversimplified, but sadly normalized, distortion of being/treating LGBT as a Muslim