It definitely throws people off, especially the cisgendered queers. Saying queer instead of lgbt or gay helps people who are not in the gender binary and if I'm being completely honest a word like bisexual is trans-exclusionary, just from my personal experience bisexuals do not want to have sex with trans people, the ones that do are called pansexuals. Don't even get me started on how much of the lesbian community is terf reactionary because they don't want to associate with trans people. The gay community same deal. And why does the l at the start of the acronym? Why not TPGNBL or something else? The whole acronym order is the main reason why I'm using queer. How can we be equal if we put specific sexual groups in front of each other? Queer is all encompassing and we should use that instead. If we could change the pride flag we could phase out lgbt.

  • crime [she/her, any]
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    2 years ago

    Don’t even get me started on how much of the lesbian community is terf reactionary because they don’t want to associate with trans people.

    Oh cool I was so focused on the first part of your bait that I missed this one. Fuck alllllllll the way off, this is absolutely not representative of the lesbian community. Most "lesbian" terfs that I'm aware of are "political lesbians" in the second-wave feminism sense, i.e. straight women who have started calling themselves lesbians because they've "sworn off men", and have no interest in women, so really they're more like het volcels who are stealing valor from the brave lesbian community. You can imagine why these types would often be terfs.

    Like half the lesbians I know are trans women.