Wow, I'm so tired from the "aces and aros aren't LGBT+ argument". So for this text, I'm going to debunk every argument that I ever heard about it (feel free to response!).
1) Let's come back to their strongest argument that I heard. "Aces and aros aren't involved at LGBT history, therefore they shouldn't be in this community". And in the assumption that its true, why it's even matter? Because this community in general is for people who suffer under Hetronormativity* (anyone look upon as cishet, and if you don't then you are broken or unnatural) Then why don't give aces and aro place that except them. Why it's that hard for you? Why can't we fight againt for our common goal? Represantion and normalization of LGBT+ people, that nobody going to get harmed in any shape or form because of his/her/their sexuality and/or gender identity.
2) "Someone who chooses not to take part at sexual activites aren't LGBT". By it's base this argument is bad. Because asexuality isn't about how much sex you had, it's isn't about if you would like to participate is sexual activites. It's about the fact that you don't expreince sexual atraction. Thats it. There isn't anything hard to understand here.
3) "Aces and aros will take the LGBT+ resources". You know that anyone can take your reaources, right? I can say that I'm gay and I got kicked out of my house while it's not true. And you know that the more people that there is in a community, there is more activism. More activism leading to more changes, and more resources. So if you including us, you can get resources back.
4) "They have AVEN* (Asexuality Visibility and Education Network)". Ok, and? Lesbians, gays, bisexual and transgender folks are also have their own communities, that's make them less LGBT+? Of course not! The LGBT+ Even exist for this purpose, we more stronger together then we are alone. Then why it's suddenly that a big of a deal when we have AVEN?
5) "Asexual and aromantic people don't need to come out of the closet, therefore they aren't LGBT+". This argument is making me so mad. For my own experience, I came out to my mother and she said that "I will find someone" and "it's going to be problematic if I won't find anyone in the future". So yeah... Besides, I sincerely don't get this argument. anyone who is out of the Hetronormativity can come out. Because you break people expectation about who YOU really are. That's the reason the option of "coming out" is even an option at the first place.
6) I heard the argument of "The LGBT+ community is for SGA (Same Gender Attraction). I searched for defenition to this community. And let's use multiple side to prove it. Wikipedia (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT) says that "it may be use to refear to someone who isn't hetrosexual and/or cisgender". By a site called "the center" (https://gaycenter.org/about/lgbtq/) the community defined as someone who is gay, lesbian, bi, transgender, qu**r and they define this word as "Whose sexual oriantation isn't exclusively hetrosexual". The university of California Francisco UCSF ( https://lgbt.ucsf.edu/glossary-terms) says that asexual are LGBT+. Just to let you know, this is the first sites I sees. So yeah, the defenition to this community is someone who isn't hetrosexual, therefore aces and are are LGBT+ by defenition.
Sorry for bad grammer/spelling. And if someone want to prove me that I'm wrong, I'm totally up to it! (I really like to learn new stuff). Please do it in respectful manner, if you don't then don't expect me to discourse with you.
