transcription: open letter to the lgbtq. dear lgbtq, you are the most inclusive community i know. it is an honor to hang with you. i think it is time to step up your game and add one more letter. s as in straight. -slgbtq supporter.
THE STRAIGHTS ARE AT IT AGAIN. putting the s at the front of lgbtq is by far the straightest straight person thing i have ever seen
I’m NB. I just want to be myself. It feels like if I choose either M or F, then there’s weird expectations and demands placed upon me. I’m not allowed to be myself anymore; half of me is restricted and prohibited.
Imagine you’re ambidextrous, but everyone tells you to “pick a side”; you’re not allowed to use whichever hand willy-nilly. You were born with a slightly stronger right hand and generally preferred it; but you’re strangely unhappy, and choose left instead.
Now you’re never allowed to use your right hand. You’re strangely unhappy again, but in a different way. The clothing you wear has to make it easy for people to identify which hand you’re choosing to present as. If anyone catches you wearing confusing clothing, using a mismatching hand, or (God forbid) both hands; you get weird comments about it.
I have two perfectly good hands here; I want to use either, or both, of them whenever I feel like. I don’t understand why people make it a big deal.
Hey you don’t have to explain the nonbinariness to me (I am they). Even tho most of us have our own definitions, saying fu to binary choice is the one thing we can all agree on.