He realised that by labelling homosexuality as a gender identity issue you could get more public and political support to hammer gay people.
'See I'm not homophobic, I'm trying to save these trans kids'...except near no one diagnosed under GID was actually trans....

..to keep homosexuality in it as a treatable mental illness.

He was also way ahead of his time in realising you could hide homophobia by pretending it was about trans people, something common now.

..and eventually killed himself as an adult.
That, to Green, was a success. To him homosexuality might exist and be unchangeable, but you could make gay people hidden, ashamed and ..ideally.. self ending.

Green was a monster, unfortunately a cunning monster. A man who manipulated the DSM to...