Name: Leo

Age: 20

Gender: Nonbinary

Pronouns: They/Them + He/Him

Sexuality: Bisexual

To be bisexual means you have the capacity to be attracted to all genders, in equal or different amounts, regardless of if that attraction feels the same or differently. Bisexuality is binary trans inclusive and nonbinary inclusive. The fact that there are some cis bi people that would "never date a trans person" or are "not attracted to nonbinary people" doesn't erase our history and the way bisexuals have identified for decades; not to mention the explicit inclusion of trans/nonbinary/gnc people into the very fabric of the bisexual community. Transphobes exist in every sexuality, stop using transphobic bisexuals as scapegoats for why you believe bisexuality is limiting.

Pansexuality (and other m-spec labels) was born out of biphobic stereotypes and transphobia/fetishism in the early 2000s on the internet. Bisexual and pansexual is one and the same, but pansexuality actively harms bisexuals by enforcing the stereotypes that bisexuality is strictly binary, not trans inclusive, genital/sex obsessed, and not capable of attraction regardless of gender or to personalities. It is at best a worthless label, and at worse used to virtue signal and push bisexuality as a label and a community, out of use.

Asexuality and aromanticism are 100% valid and real, but they do not make you automatically LGBT (a lesbian, gay, bi, or trans). The LGBT community was created on the basis of forming a socio-political alliance between people that experience oppression because they are SGA and/or are transgender. I believe it makes sense for LGBT people and aces/aros to be allied, but they deserve their own community. As such, LGBT people deserve to keep our spaces safe, and deserve to not have to center our conversations and resources around cishet ace/aro inclusion.

You do not need dysphoria to be trans, being trans simply means that you do not identify as the gender you were assigned at birth. The level of dysphoria someone experiences is no one else's business, and if someone decides to pursue medically transitioning that is not taking away resources from other trans people. Transmeds are actively harming the transgender community by trying to police people’s (notably young teens) genders to uphold cisexist ideals.

Fiction does affect reality, and creating, sharing, and consuming cp is disgusting, full stop. The anti-anti community is harboring child predators under the guise of preserving free speech, and the large presence of adults creating content with children in sexual situations with each other or adults is frankly alarming. This phenomenon is putting minors in fandom spaces into precarious situations where these things are being taught as okay things to see as “good” or “sexy”.

The policing of what slurs bi people (particularly women) can and cannot reclaim is harmful and delegitimizes the violent homophobia and biphobia we experience. There are legitimate reasons as to why a bi person would be empowered by reclaiming and/or using certain words, and you are not punching up by policing the language we use for ourselves. Stop treating us like spicy straight people.

Bisexuals can use the butch/femme labels (or stud if you’re black). The assumption that being bisexual means that we do not have the compacity to have complex relationships with our gender, presentation, and our attraction to women in particular is infantilizing and biphobic. Bi women have used those labels from the very start of our community, and have run in the same circles for decades. Bisexual women using the labels that they helped create from the beginning is not an “invasion”, and is not something that is taken lightly as simply a way to be included or take something from lesbians. While I respect the people that choose to use doe, stag, tomcat, ect, I find creating new labels that are supposed to mirror butch/femme redundant. Not only that, but butch and femme were never lesbian or even bi exclusive, and have been used by all members of the community for various reasons

Trans women are one of the most vulnerable populations in the LGBT community, and deserve to feel safe in the community they helped create. Trans women are intrinsic to our survival. There is no space for terfs or febfems.

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