LGBT+ inclusion

In addition to previous texts... It makes completely sense for aro/ace people to be included in the lgbt+ acronym. Patriarchy is the key word here. It is why homophobia exists, why gender roles exist, why heteronormativity exists. It is very obvious that sga and mga people would fit together, they are affected in many of the same ways. In regards to the right to love, and right to commit. 

Trans people do often get affected by a lot of things like that too, usually the problems even overlapping (sga or not). All thanks to how gender roles affects us, gendered expectations, thanks to our sex essentialistic society. Which is also where intersexuality ties in. A huge issue for intersex people is lack of personal medical autonomy, often experiencing various coersive medical treatments. The cause of those things? The expectations for the male and female body. If not about reproduction, it is about being able to have piv sex.

Tell me, how many places here can you see aro/ace issues tying in? I can see it on equal footing with sga and trans issues tying in, in all honesty. This is not about historicaly who has suffered more or most, this is about a basic logic: We’re all affected by heteronormativity, cissexism, sex essentialism, patriarchy, and how we fit in with gender roles. If you’re not consistant with lgbt+ inclusion, then there’s literally no point with in the acronym to exist . Tying sga and mga together with trans/nb is already a tiny bit of a reach, but if it’s about how essentialistic and binary obsessed society is about our bodies. With this in mind, I see no reason to exclude the aro/ace spectrums.

Here’s an essential flaw with  lgbt+, though. The cis sga/mga makes lgbt+ spaces unsafe for trans people. Cis men make lgbt+ spaces unsafe for everyone else. So, I’m sorry that I don’t really care whether or not an aro/ace person is “straight”, and what sort of far fetched meaning we can all attach to the word straight. Funnily enough I can’t imagine straight trans women making any space unsafe at all. So I genuinely don’t see how straightness is ever more emphasised than cisness.

So, anyway, I don’t like the term lgbt+, it makes sense, but it seems to derail a lot, and I feel that if we can't apply it more broadly, we might as well just leave it behind as an old and out-dated concept.