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And? Trans individuals were fighting alongside the rest of us for gay rights, gay marriage, etc, since the very beginning. People forget it was the out, loud and proud "freaks" and "weirdos" that spearhead the movement because they were brave enough to speak out when the rest of us couldn't/wouldn't. Many of them were trans individuals who put themselves in danger for the cause. Now the heat is off us and is on them, and we hang them out to dry because some people "might be confused"? Anyone with this mentality can please fuck right off.
Never said there should be no solidarity, but Trans people were/are also huge civil rights activists and we haven’t added races into the acronym—was just pointing out that it can cause confusion.
We added races to the flag though. Intersectionality is the way.
And there's a reason my generation embraced the word "queer" because it encompassed anyone gender nonconforming without demanding that they define themselves. Trans, gay, nonbinary, ace are all gender nonconforming identities in some way.
As a Gen X, "queer" still makes me wince internally since I remember when it was only a slur and hadn't been taken back. But I'm glad it was!
Yeah I'm the tail end of Gen X and "genderqueer" also still makes me wince, though I understand the reclaiming. I much prefer genderfluid. It just sounds so nice lol
I feel like millennials are in a weird place with this one? I personally grew up in the f***** world, hearing queer in any context almost never. It was a word I mostly read in old and fantasy books that meant strange or unusual. Don't get me wrong, I'm from the south and knew and know all the slurs (I've always had the unseemly duty of teaching my wife what slurs mean when she encounters a new one in art or media =/) but queer wasn't in regular circulation in my life. To me, the weird part about the reclamation was that it felt like reviving a dead word.