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The '2' and the 'S' are new to me. When were they added, and what do they represent?
Two-Spirited is an Indigenous term for someone who isn't hetero.
From https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-the-two-spirit-community-5089204:
" "Two Spirit" is an umbrella term that is meant to unify various gender identities and expressions among Indigenous, Native American, Alaskan Native, and First Nations people.
It does not refer to a specific gender and is instead a catch-all term that represents a wide variety of people who don't fit in with the traditional gender binary."
2S stands for two spirit
Makes sense in hindsight. Only bigots would try to twist the... well, "brand identity", for lack of a better phrase, of a group they hate.
There's probably a less corporate sounding version of those words, but I can't currently think of them.
Only a conservative would throw their hands up at new information and decide that all hope is lost.
The ability to process new information is lost on conservatives.
When did we as a society allow aggressive stupidity to masquerade as a legitimate political ideology?
I think conservatives trouble learning about queer stuff is much like how i had trouble with math.
It started out easy with the fundamentals, but somewhere down the line I got tripped up on something and before I could figure out where I went wrong in my understanding we moved on to more complicated things.
So now I, much like them, throw up our arms and say "What the hell is this weird letter doing here!"