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Be an ally to lesbians: stop using LGBTQ+

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Shedbuilder · 18/06/2020 09:28

I'm a lesbian and I mentally parted company with Stonewall and began opposing it and a lot of other LGB organisations when they added the T and then the Q and then all the other identity letters to the original LGB.

LGB people are united by same-sex attraction. TQ and whatever are linked by their insistence on identity — defining themselves by feelings or whatever. LGB people are united by their experience of homophobia. Transgenderism, and its attack on sex, is inherently homophobic. The two cannot and could never exist comfortably together. As soon as Stonewall added the T to their constituency, it began working against its core community.

Stonewall and other organisations have done this by force. Uncoupling the LGB from the TQ+ is one of the most important things anyone with a GC stance can do.

Please, let us work towards making the letters LGBTQ+ a badge of ignorance and shame, not something that employers should be plastering everywhere as proof of how progressive they are.

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Deliriumoftheendless · 18/06/2020 11:19

I noticed one of the Twitter comments someone posted here (can’t remember which) where someone had put “talk to an LGBT” and a bloke had replied “I’m a homosexual man not an LGBT!”

Whilst LGB or LGBT has its uses it can not be used for single people.

Bit irrelevant that post.

endofthelinefinally · 18/06/2020 11:19

I completely agree.
That is why I support LGB Alliance.

BlueBooby · 18/06/2020 11:17

I agree. I've also seen it written as lgbtiq+ and sometimes there are even more letters.

Ninkanink · 18/06/2020 11:14

Yes.

VickyEadieofThigh · 18/06/2020 10:19

I agree. Recently I saw an article reporting that an actor had "come out as LGBT" - they meant gay, but apparently you have to come out as the entire fucking alphabet soup nowadays.

I have nothing o do with Stonewall, who are one of the most anti-lesbian organisations going.

Michelleoftheresistance · 18/06/2020 10:18

Yup.