Misunderstanding in activism

In our reading from Lewis, we read that "As Barbara Gittings reassured audiences in a 1966interview, 'There is no evidence that homosexuals wish to cross-dress anymore than heterosexuals do. In fact, most transvestites are heterosexual, and they even have their own organizations. Transvestism is a fundamentally different phenomenon from homosexuality and must not be confused with or correlated with homosexuality.' In Gittings’s rendering—which conjured a somewhat different vision of gay publicity than did the men who donned dresses for initial APA protests—not only were most homosexuals not cross-dressers, but most cross-dressers were not homosexual" (Lewis, 91). As I asked in my discussion question, is it possible that this misinterpretation or misunderstanding of other outsiders is a choice that they have made? In other words, do people who disagree with an activist movement actively decide to remain uneducated about the true beliefs or intentions of that movement? I think sometimes this is the case with people who -- while they may not be adverse to the foster system -- have decided to avoid learning about the foster care system or about the truths behind what kids in the system go through. This could be because they don't want to feel guilty or because they believe that it is someone else's problem. Learning about the flaws in the system is very easy, and many different organizations have made that information readily available. For example, iFoster has an easy-to-read post that contains some startling facts about the foster system. https://www.ifoster.org/blogs/6-quick-statistics-on-the-current-state-of-foster-care/. This information, I believe, is something that people should know and understand, even if they don't want to involve themselves in the foster system.