I definitely remember when lesbian couples campaigned to remove the words mother and father as we aspired to become non-birthing parents through adoption or, God willing, a gestational parent and non-birthing parent pair.

Because as we know, lesbians/gay men flip a shit every time a heterosexual couple is pictured and not a lesbian/gay couple or when a stranger presumes that their child has a father? Or IDK maybe we just deal with it and gently correct because we realize it’s a numbers game and have bigger fish to fry. We’re still just a bit more concerned every time we walk out the door together that we will have abuse hurled at us for holding hands or expressing any small amount of affection in public. Because, yes, that’s still happening to us privileged cis gays in the West and we can’t just identify out of it by claiming that one of us is actually the opposite sex and goes by opposite sex pronouns. So we can tolerate awkwardness and laugh about it as long as people respond gracefully, or at least civilly, when they realize we’re gay.

We need to live in a society, people. Not deconstruct and reassemble the laws of biology and basic human interaction to suit the desires of a tiny fraction of the population on dubious grounds.