Excellent summary! My only suggested edit would be for LGB that it be “you don’t have to have genuine attraction to the same sex” or “without ever experiencing any desire to be in a relationship with a person of the same sex.” While same-sex attraction is the marker of whether someone is genuinely LGB, in a political coalition context same-sex rights don’t really come into play unless you have any intention of acting on that attraction and people who act on it obviously have more skin in the game and are differently situated than those who don’t (e.g., me while I was married to a man before I came out). Even though I had some awareness of my attraction to women for half my life along with a heavy dose of cognitive dissonance, I didn’t consider myself “LGBT” because at that point in time I had no personal need for same sex rights and no plans to act on my attraction that I was trying to bury.
its no longer about being lgbt, its about wether you identify as lgbt. Just like the recent post about a no binary partner telling the other person they were gay or at least bi now.
This sort of environment makes it so difficult if you’re genuinely trying to figure out your sexuality.
the percentage of Gen Z who are LGBT nearly doubled since 2017, when only a small slice of that generation were adults.
ROGD, anyone?
A cursory glance would suggest a 2-4 fold increase in gay men from a few decades prior, 2-3 among lesbians, and a 100 fold increase in trans.
The numbers don't add up or are being explained poorly.
I read a survey that found 30 per cent of Millennials and 39 per cent of Zoomers in the US "identified" as LGBTIQQAAXYZWTF. M'oppression!
I believe it. I was at this event with a liberal crowd and it seemed like every younger woman I talked to identified as trans/nonbinary in some way. I literally found only one other woman around my age (20s) who was just plain old "she". And as for the guys, there were a few more who weren't trans, but then there were also a good number of trans/nonbinary identifying guys.
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