Alternative Sex Ed

Also yes, queer is more inclusive! Especially coming at it from an academic standpoint, people didn’t always use or identify with the terms we use now and you can’t always try to cram them into our modern perceptions of sexuality. We can argue for years about whether a famous historical figure was gay or bisexual or straight and trans or whatever, but if we can all agree that they were somehow queer then using that term allows us to move past the debate and into productive discussion. And not everybody everywhere shares the same terms for sexual and gender identity, or even the same concepts of those things, so queer really is a more inclusive term in a lot of cases.

Your words are slurs, too. Why do you get your words, but I don’t get mine? What makes you so special?

And there’s one more important, linguistical reason why I will defend “queer” to my dying breath.

“Queer” is an adjective. It describes a trait - of a person, of a group. LGBT(QIAP) is an acronym. It’s a shortening of a very long sequence of words that mean something, but can be interpreted in many, often malicious, ways that would dissolve it’s meaning. Just look at the discourse what “A” actually means - it’s used to alienate a whole group that is part of our community.

Also acronyms can evolve. You can decide that you’ll add some letters… or that you’ll drop some letters and then you end up with monstrosities like “LGB” which is a spit to the faces of people like Marsha P Johnson or Sylvia Rivera without whom there would be NO LGBT movement as we know it today.

And, you know what else has acronyms? Organizations. And you know what organizations have? An agenda. If we reject “queer” as a label we give a powerful tool to demagogues and propagandists. We let them tell others a story of a malicious, insidious organization that aims to prey on youth and is after their rights. And it’s much easier to believe that when the group in question hides behind a letter soup instead of stating clearly: “we stand together because we share this trait, we stand together because we’re queer.”

You don’t believe me? This is what’s happening in my country, which has adopted “LGBT” as the common descriptor, without giving us any proper adjective. You need something that you can observe no matter what your first language is? It’s literally what GOP propagandists are doing to ANTIFA.

Lee says:

The word “transgender” is an umbrella term that is inclusive of (but not forced upon) anyone who identifies as a gender that they were not assigned at birth. 

Both binary people and non-binary people are equally transgender.

Being trans without dysphoria is possible.

Gender expression ≠ gender identity, as shown on the genderbread person

More info: Trans resources masterpost or Ally resources for cis people

Again, if you don’t fully identify as the gender you were assigned at birth 100% of the time, you can call yourself trans. That’s it, there’s no other criteria you need to meet to be trans.

Followers, feel free to add on!

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Vagina-having people have a shorter urethra, which means we’re more prone to UTIs because the bacteria doesn’t have to travel as far to get up into your bladder and cause a problem.

Which means if you’re exposing your bits to bacteria (as with sex), peeing will flush out bacteria in the urethra. (Urine isn’t actually sterile - that’s a myth - but you’re *supposed to* have a little bit of bacteria - that’s how bodies work. But it still flushes things out that shouldn’t be there.)

If you’re one of the people saying “You meant ‘women’”, fuck you. I meant “people who have a vagina, regardless of their gender or lack thereof”, and you can go fuck yourself with a cactus.