Iain's wife has had to ban him from watching Countdown. Every time the board is filled with nine new vowels and consonants he throws his shoes in tantrum screaming 'fark you with your ideologies'.
Not sure what you are on about.
Seriously Iain when you think you can reduce the non-straight among us to simple homosexuals and some others you can dislike because they use the same alphabet as you, you aren't starting to win any argument.
Again. It's simple. If you are a man who is attracted solely to men = Gay. Woman attracted to woman = Lesbian. Attracted to both = Bisexual. Queer? Same as Bi. Trans - about dysphoria not sexual attraction. Intersex - genetic condition not about sexual attraction, etc. Not attracted to anyone = celibate.
No one has ever been repressed because they were celibate. The history of the LGB alliance was about fighting laws that made it illegal to love people who you were attracted to. I have never said that I dislike anyone. In fact I have said a couple of times that I have no issue with people being trans, or with people being made more comfortable to live the way that they would like to live. I don't think anyone has an issue with that.
The issues tend to be where one very small minority group starts to stamp over the hard won rights of another group. Where that minority can be subverted or used by people for their own ends - e.g. gain access to women's spaces that they should not have access to by pretending to be trans. And finally the issue of using surgery and medication on people to satisfy their mental image rather than working with them to accept who they are.
You know you can manage to be an advocate for human rights without thinking that the vocabulary is well-founded. I am a critic of the terminology as I've explained many times, but I'll not give up advocacy for human rights.
I don't think I suggested that.
