Re: your comments on the ace discourse post; the lgbt community was founded by trans women to include lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and trans people. These orientations describe WHO we are attracted to. Ace identities describe HOW weâre attracted to people. If someone is cishet ace/aro. They are still not lgbt bc they are cis and het. Just because they donât experience sexual/romantic attraction doesnât mean they are not cis and hetero. The A has always stood for ally to protect closeted people.
Iâve made many comments on many âace discourseâ posts; youâll have to be more specific.
While the role of trans women in LGBT/queer communitiesâ history is not to be diminished, there was no Council of Trans that founded it fully-formed. This is no single LGBT/queer community. There are many, and theyâre not immutable; we can and must be capable of change.
âTransâ is not an orientation; it is neither whom to nor how weâre attracted. It does not make sense to exclude ace/aro identities for this reason.
âHetâ (or âcishetâ), to be a meaningful and useful term, must mean both heterosexual and heteromantic; âcishet aceâ is an oxymoron.
Besides which, arguing that theyâre hetero-by-default is both categorically heteronormative and trivially false, as theyâre very much perceived and treated as deviations from heteronormativity by heteronormative society.
âAlliesâ are welcome at LGBT events etc. to protect closeted people; having an âAâ that stands for âallyâ does not do this.
