I’m asexual and agender. Anybody else apart of the LGBTQ community?
*raises hand* Hi! I’m a guy who likes guys. @WarriorOfEden
As far as I know, the Q often stands for either “queer” (meaning some other sexual identity outside of gay/bisexual/transgender) or “questioning” (meaning that person is still unsure of their sexual orientation).
Marina
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There are even extensions on the acronym, such as LGBTQIA+ which include more things. Generally the A is considered to be “asexual” but in some cases it means “ally” which, depending on your interpretation, is where you are, WoE.
Personally, I support the LGBTQ as well. From what I’ve been reading, schools here in the U.S.A. refuse to respect people who are gay. The American Civil Liberties Union, a civil rights group we have, however, does, and for these reasons, they’ve sued these schools. Thankfully, this number of schools refusing to respect the gay is slowly going down by the looks of it.
I’m LGBTQ+ as well; I’m a transgender boy and bisexual.
@McDonalds1
, this might just be a thing limited to more liberal states, but my school is actually pretty accepting of LGBTQ+ students; in California, there’s a bill that allows transgender students to use the bathrooms and locker rooms that correlate with their gender identity, and the vast majority of the schools in this area have a Gay Straight Alliance. I wouldn’t know about more conservative states, though.
Also, there’s a common problem that I’ve seen many transgender people encounter (myself included) that I want to put forward for anyone who’s not too familiar with the “transgender” part of LGBTQ+. Cisgender people sometimes aren’t sure how to refer to trans people, and when attempting to explain being transgender to a person, they’ll say that the person “wants to be” a certain gender.
A trans boy is a boy, not a “girl who wants to be a boy”. A trans girl is a girl, not a “boy who wants to be a girl”. Please don’t ever refer to trans people as someone who “wants to be” a gender. We are that gender.
Marina
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Shoutout to my state. A year ago I would have considered my state to me a more accepting one, NC. But now transgender girls are being forced to use the boy’s bathroom and vice versa.
It’s literally the worst thing this state has ever put into law in my lifetime.
You have every right to sue over that with the ACLU if you want to. That’s really weird and uncalled for.
Marina
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…No, it’s a state law. You can’t sue over a state law. The ACLU knows and has pages on it. There’s really nothing that’s going to change for at least another year while people protest edit: correction, you can sue over a state law, but it’s more about disputing over incidents regarding the law which generally doesn’t lead to it being revoked.
Okay.
Can you file a petition and see how many people will sign it? That MIGHT work, but of course, as we said a while ago, it’s a long process.
Marina
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I’ll bet that’s already been started.Petitions really can’t change much, though. Since the law, sales and tourism have decreased, artists refuse to go on tour here, and the protests are enormous given the fact that there are 3 highly liberal cities within NC. Frankly, the process to rid of this law will consist of likely 2 or 3 years of work.
^ Unless, of course, it consists of several people coming in from different states and protesting the North Carolina state government, which I’m pretty sure would overwhelm them.
Marina
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Not quite sure you understand. More than 100 companies have petitoned to repeal the law. We’re talking Starbucks, Microsoft, Apple, etc. But it’s ultimately a legal and political issue. We can make millions of petitions, but the government can’t say “Oh no, we got this call from Pepsi saying we need to repeal this, better back up and toss out this house bill.” We, the people who do not like or agree with the bill, have people in the house to represent us. However, they chose to walk out on the bill due to its absurdities. In NC, we have something called gerrymandering where the states are drawn by republicans when they are in control, and the county lines are drawn to favor republicans so they have control. Which is how this law came to be. It likely will be changed, but it’s a political process that is going to take years. Petitions or not.
This is another issue of “political correctness” by a government so they can attempt to have control over us and what we say. There’s a law somewhat like this in New Jersey that forbids the self-serving of gas, yet it’s 49 other sibling states don’t have this law. This is only because people want to keep the law in place so they can continue to be lazy. People seriously need to get a grip.
(This should probably be taken somewhere else as it’s not related to LGBTQ+. Oops!)
Marina
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We’re on the subject of how to fight for LGBTQIA+ rights, so no big.It’s a fight that probably all fellow members have fought, so I’m sure they won’t mind one bit. Frankly, I think in at least my lifetime, there will be a pretty consistent fight for legal recognition and community acceptance for LGBTQIA+ members.
The law actually used to be in place in that discriminating against LGBTQIA+ members was against the law, but in House Bill 2, discrimination against transgendered people is legal. I think the backlash we’re seeing from companies, although it might not change things for us here, should definitely give other states an idea of what will happen if they try anything similar.
OoT2D
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I don’t really know where I stand. I once considered myself asexual…but I’m not sure anymore…I just don’t know.
^^ Okay.
It would seem whoever decided that law was a good idea doesn’t like the idea of transgender people. I think whoever it is needs an extra reminder.
