https://twitter.com/BBCNews/status/1412503078436278273
It's not really a customizable acronym though. If the study had some other set of survey questions, they wouldn't have put 'LGT' or 'GTQA' or something, they would have just described the group that was studied. The only subset that sees regular usage is 'LGB' and it came in to use because of transphobes pushing to exclude trans people. It's possible it was used without bad intentions (though I wouldn't bet on it), but using that acronym is spreading and reinforcing the impression that 'T' is the group that least belongs in 'LGBT'.
The LGB alliance will free itself from the straight people who think how they dress makes them "queer" or "something inbetween man and woman" for the really dramatic ones.
So they have a survey of over 10,000 people and somehow they didn't think to ask about trans status but did ask about their gender preference?
Big fucking 'sus.
Wouldn't be surprised since TERFs automatically classify trans-people as "having mental health issues". The resulting "100% of" metric would be looked at crosswise immediately.
but please at least read contents of the article itself
Abandon hope now.
Gee, it's almost like every minority group has this problem. I wonder if society treating them like shit has anything to do with it? :thonk:
Given that non-normative sexual habits are - to this very day - conflated with mental illness, I have to question whether this figure is redundant with the subject matter. "Being gay is just when you're anxious or depressed" is a thing liberalish homophobes believe, and so "straightening you out" becomes an exercise in trying to treat these assumed-associative conditions.
Similarly the "drink and smoke more but weigh less" line sounds suspiciously like a proxy for "is younger". I mean, ffs, smoking is an appetite suppressant. So you're already tripping over your own dick with this one.
Strike 1: Excluding the 'T' and other letters
Strike 2: 'They have more mental health issues' without elaborating on WHY they might (like I don't know, shitty media purposefully dumping on them)
Strike 3: Being Brit state media
:get-out:
white people are more likely to have mental health issues, skin cancer, and commit suicide. They are also more likely to drink heavily.
Can't argue with the facts! SYUNTS
Unfortunately that's not what's going on with this tweet or article.
The report itself is a sexual health study solely on LGB people and it's the study using that language. We would have to focus on the NHS' choice of language itself if attempting to make this attack but I don't think it would stick.
Personally I think the movement needs an all-encompassing word for "non-hetero" so that we can eliminate the use of the "LGB" acronym altogether and call all uses of it bad. If we don't like people using "LGB" we need to give them a community-endorsed version to use.
This is region dependent of course, but I have heard "queer" as the catch all non-hetero. I thought it was offensive, but gay communities have taken back that word.
Gonna be a hard sell to get that one in use by government institutions like the NHS though. :/ Especially after previously campaigning to get it considered bad.
Subtle headlines like this normalize driving a wedge between lgbt people. It might've been unintentional by some people in the process, but there are alternative phrasing options that could be just as accurate without reinforcing the 'drop the t' position.
