Parasexual

[Rev. Green]

We used to have just a few genders, then LGB, then LGBT. Recently, I heard something like LGBTQ+. Can't we have a word to describe all these conditions? How about 'parasexuals'?

[Untitled]

as I say the one they seem to have agreed on for being "non-hetero" and also non-cisgender is "queer"... (being non-hetero and non-cisgender are technically very different but those communities have tended to band together for a very long time... product of the history i suppose!)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queer

bit awkward for everyone else as queer was considered offensive a while ago and still can be used pejoratively... but i think a bit of patience while a single word is arrived is not unreasonable! these things can take time and tolerance on these issues is still relatively new

[Arrods]

How about ‘others’?

[naomi24]

Unititled 12.04, from my point of view - and I think I’m still just about allowed one on this subject - ‘bonkers’ perfectly describes all these ridiculous labels that faceless nonentities, although uninvited, insist upon attaching to all and sundry - and that is not a good look either. Cisgender? Me? Hmmm … and there’s silly me innocently self-identifying as ‘normal’ for all these years. Who’d a guessed? So suitably chastised and thoroughly ashamed of my former lapse, in an effort to become more trendily inclusive I’m currently considering identifying as the latest I’ve heard about - catgender - just for a change. I wonder how my dogs will take it?

[Untitled]

Do you consider gay and bi people to be "bonkers" as well as trans people? Because the question is about all of them...

[naomi24]

The question is about words.

[Untitled]

it's about the words used to group together lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, asexual and others (no idea what the I is)... your suggestion was "bonkers" so it seems reasonable to ask if that applies to lesbian/gay/bi people....

[Untitled]

Question:

"We used to have just a few genders, then LGB, then LGBT. Recently, I heard something like LGBTQ+Can't we have a word to describe all these conditions? How about 'parasexuals'?"

naomi:

"How about just plain bonkers?"

[cashier]

I just call them The Alphabet People. I can never remember what they are plus they are always changing and it's quicker to say. Not that I ever have need to say it.

[Untitled]

Do people know what you mean when you say "alphabet people" cashier? If I heard that I would think it was a new childrens programme or something :)

[naomi24]

It certainly applies to some I’ve come across!

Now there’s a thing. Why are trans people grouped in with gay people? I don’t see the connection there at all - and I know gays who don’t either.

[Khandro]

Freaks ?

[Untitled]

it's to do with common history i think... they are quite different but they have tended to band together, go to the same places and share a lot in their subculture as best I can understand... I believe quite a high proportion of trans people are homosexual (as in they're still attracted to the opposite of their birth sex... so when they do transition they "become" gay) though I haven't checked so I might be wrong... if I am right about that then it certainly makes sense that they would have a lot of common cause.

[Untitled]

biological sex I should say, not birth sex

[Untitled]

freaks is a bit derogatory khandro but i suppose that's the point

[naomi24]

They sound pretty confused to me.

[ladybirder]

fatticus perhaps you should change your name to fattipuss then?

[fiveleaves]

There are only two genders: male and female

[mushroom25]

// biological sex I should say, not birth sex //

is there a difference? you can only (except in a very tiny minority of cases) be born X-X or X-Y - that’s your birth sex, yes? it’s also your biological sex too - what else could it be? science has gust est to get into chromosome engineering necessary to change X-Y to X-X

[mushroom25]

gust est? YET! poxy autocorrect

[Untitled]

yes biological sex and birth sex are the same thing