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.
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.
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