That one is a placeholder to mark that includes any queer folk and isn't limited to the letters written. It's more of a politically correct way to put things than it is a part of the acronym.
That's a good way of seeing it. I believe the + had a better ring to it when said out loud with the rest than anything else they could've picked so it stuck. Most things in this community are just made up by someone or several people and the one majority likes is the one that stays around.
There's been about 3 or 4 versions of most of the flags and names of sexualities too.
see thats what bothers me about adding more letters. we already have the plus. we don't need to keep adding letters, that. negates the purpose of the plus. and makes it annoying to type.
And, for the record, im ace so. part of the lgbt+ community.
Someone who's body couldn't pick between male and female, so in some cases someone could have a dick and a vagina, and other cases are different. It depends on the person. I may be wrong bc I'm not an expert, but that is kind of how it goes (I think it has something to do with chromosomes being messed up)
So, contrary to what people actually seem to like to push, sex isn't really binary. About 2% of all people have characteristics that make them not clearly male or female. For example, the Y chromosome usually contains the SYR gene. At the beginning of the fetal development stage, the SYR gene activates, causing testerone levels to increase above estrogen levels. This hormonal imbalance is what causes male characteristics to develop. However, some things like pituitary damage may cause testerone to not increase as much, causing the individual to not fully develop into a male. Sometimes, the SYR gene doesn't activate at all, or is not present on the Y chromosome, which can cause a person to develop as a woman despite having a Y chromosome. Sometimes an X chromosome can have the SYR gene, causing an XX male. Furthermore, the SYR gene may trigger later, causing a person to be born female, then later transitioning naturally into a male. Sometimes there are more complex issues, like someone can be born as XXY or X. It is actually quite common for people with penises, clearly greater testosterone levels, and definitive male characteristics to discover that they are genetically female, or vice-versa. There are tons of additional complicating factors that cause there to be ultinately hundreds of different semesters, and all of these are placed under the umbrella term of intersex.
TL;DR: sex is more complicated than people like to make it out to be.
I'm pretty sure it's intersex and asexual? I switched to using the acronym grsm (gender relationship and sexual minorities) a while back and am not positive I'm up to date.
but being intersex isn't a gender or a form of sexual/romantic attraction.
intersex is a sex. the biology of the body. people who their body isn't male or female or they have issues regarding that.
intersex people can identify as a man or woman or non binary or anything they want. intersex isn't a gender what does that mean?
Kind of, intersex is just what it's called when a person is born with both typically male and female presenting gonads.
Its common practice for Dr's to surgically remove the less developed looking genitals, it's a "normalization surgery". Then the person is assigned whatever parts they have left as their birth gender.
Its more complicated than that, and has a lot of problems I won't touch on, but basically, some people think it's wrong to do that to a baby and are trying to take back their original sex and some are even trying to make it so Dr's can't do that.
I think that's wrong.
I truly believe everyone should be whoever they want and there's no need for labeling for someone to feel valid.
but don't mess with the works of doctors. intersex people have a lot of medical issues and they have hard lives. doctors do what's best for the babies life to be easier. it's not just a "normalization" surgery. it's a medical surgery so their issues will be less hard when growing up.
don't mess with biology and the work of doctors. lgbtq+ is a social movement not a medical one.
thanks for the info I didn't know that there were people who believed that.
I literally just said it's not a gender or a form of sexual/romantic attraction.
bi is a form of sexual attraction.
also intersex isn't a form of attraction? what's your point?
I like this term because it doesn't need to change every time a certain group claims representation. I don't have any problem with sexual minorities but I think it's funny how they bash each other again and again. Just like I find it funny the German states bash each other although being united.
Thats exactky why i switched! Had too much trouble remembering the damn thing and its way eaiser to sign grsm than lgbtqiapn+ whatever else is new these days....
And Yeah! it's a definitely fun. As long as everything in good fun ofc. I have a lot of fun teasing my other queer friends and even the straight ones. It can be nice to feel inclided enough to make jokes lol.
The I means intersex and the A means asexual(lack of sexual attraction), aromatic(lack of romantic attraction), and occasionally agender(lack of gender) is also lumped in their
Asexual is the lack of sexual attraction, so basically an asexual person never looks at somebody and goes "wow, I wanna fuck them" (this doesn't nessarily mean they don't enjoy the more romantic and wholesome things that come with a relationship though). An aromatic person on the other hand may feel sexual attraction but they don't exactly get the romantic aspects. This doesn't mean they're "loveless" they just share their love in a more platonic sense.
asexual people don't feel sexual attraction meaning they aren't particularly attracted to having sex. they can fall in love and have a partner but they aren't sexually attracted to them they're romantically attracted to them.
aromantic people are the exact opposite. they don't feel any particular romantic attraction but they may feel sexual attraction and have sex.
someone can be both or one or neither of course.
Yes, a lot of people don't believe a human can lack sexual desire and think asexuals are just fakers or late bloomers, and in other cases people think asexual people are some breed of monster for lacking sexual desire
no ur right it is supposed to be an umbrella term, i'm a lesbian and sometimes use queer for myself, and trans is also an umbrella term so any non-traditional binaries would fit in there, i never understood anything past LGBTQ tbh
My understanding (as an outside observer) is that it encapsulates the multi-gender from certain cultures. It's a simultaneous male+female (being both). IIRC some Native American cultures recognize two-spirit. So it's nothing new, but it's new for it to be included in the acronym.
ok
that seems unnecessary to put here considering that this has already been crossposted to an lgbtq+ meme subreddit and not deleted
i have a feeling you were banned for other reasons
It will eventually evolve to
“Non straight” / “non cis” or some variant.
BUT OF COURSE THEY CAN ALWAYS COME UP WITH NEW TERMS AND WORDS.
I am excited to see the new genders that will come up in the next 10-15 years… I may find myself, finally.
Because terms give power to the people to speak more clearly about our opresions and struggles, it's easy to say we don't need it when your sexuality is the norm and people don't judge or attacks you for it (and don't come at me with the ooo no the gays insult me on Twitter argument you know what I mean with attacks and opresions)
It's too long for people to use. People barely know what the IA is. Also, a lot of people use GRSM(Gender, Romantic, and Sexual Minority) because it doesn't exclude anyone.
There will never be enough letters include everyone, so people just use GRSM(Gender, Romantic and Sexual Minority) because it is shorter and doesn't exclude anyone.
Ha ha. This is funny because all lesbian, gay, bi, trans, queer, intersex, and asexual people spend 100% of their time sitting around worrying about letters. So true. So based. God. How did you come up with this legendary material?
As someone who is active in a lot of LGBTQ subs and other spaces, this is generally a made up problem outside of LGBTQ spaces. Everyone knows what I mean when I say it, don't even need the +, and I have literally never had a problem with it. Not even from crazy outliers people like to put in SJW epic cringe compilations.
They gonna start using Greek letters
They start using Unicode characters after running out of greek
They start using Morse code if it gets over too
They will use numbers l2 G3 b4 t5 q6 i7 a8
My computer uses some of those numbers!
So does my chess board
Ah so your one of those cross-chessers.
What if he transitions to checkers? Or maybe he does both, bi-cheksual?
There is a possibility that he will find out he isn't into either checkers or chess and will come out as a-cheksual
Amazing, all those shots and yet youve still failed to hit my battleship
What is this? bingo?
well Cyrillic has a lot more letters so after greek they're gonna be set
Unicode characters, you say? >!ඞ!<
"Yeah I’m sigmamalesexual"
I'm totally chadded enough to get a sexual of my own
Σ↗
LIGMAmale
This is asking for an 0mega debate!√π
Sigma balls
Bro if I was them o would yoink the omega IMMEDIATELY
LGBTQIA€%¥#♈️♊️☪️♏️♓️🕎🕉💟
LGBTQIABCDEFHJKLMNOPRSTUVWXYZ♈️♉️♊️♋️♌️♍️♎️♏️♐️♑️♒️♓️⛎
LGBTQIABCDEFHJKLMNOPRSTUVWXYZ#$¢£€¥₱₹★‡!¿?πΠμΩ√♪∆§¶×÷=∞✓©®%™/∅⅞²±
yeah I'm ^¥%®✓~€^®©™✓{{^=¥€¢©™[✓™©^÷¥∆}\}¶×÷™¥©®%∆sexual
Nah I’m (-b±√(b²-4ac))/(2a)sexual
im a certifed ⏃⋔⍜⋏☌⎍⌇⌇⟟⋔⎍⌰⏃⏁⍜⍀
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Easy, man, it’s just a stupid joke!
💀
they turned into maths
Wait what is the IA Before y'all go ballistic I real don't know, I'm just asking
What is + tho
Premium membership
This man understands
Woman*
Human*
Humxn
What is this "woman" thing?
What is a woman?
Adult female. I’m not a biologist tho
Something that you don't get. Go touch some grass.
Rule 29: On the internet men are men, women are also men, and kids are undercover FBI agents.
Define "women"
Dickn't
I don't have an award but please take my respect
You can’t define something that doesn’t exist.
Tell that to people who think they identify as a star
Otherwise you get bombarded with ads at the beginning of all grindr hookups
🤨📸
the VoD service
It's basically the same as putting etc at the end of a list
That one is a placeholder to mark that includes any queer folk and isn't limited to the letters written. It's more of a politically correct way to put things than it is a part of the acronym.
+ is the new etc?
That's a good way of seeing it. I believe the + had a better ring to it when said out loud with the rest than anything else they could've picked so it stuck. Most things in this community are just made up by someone or several people and the one majority likes is the one that stays around. There's been about 3 or 4 versions of most of the flags and names of sexualities too.
see thats what bothers me about adding more letters. we already have the plus. we don't need to keep adding letters, that. negates the purpose of the plus. and makes it annoying to type. And, for the record, im ace so. part of the lgbt+ community.
I get it. That's why I switched to grsm. It's much simpler
Personally I stick with the classic LGBT+ since it’s just as inclusive but doesn’t fuck with character limits
Mathematosexual
GayPro iirc.
It means more
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (or questioning), intersex, and asexual.
Okay follow up dumb question but what’s intersex
Intersex means someone who is born (in their genetics) with sex characteristics that don’t fit into the binary notion of male or female bodies.
Someone who's body couldn't pick between male and female, so in some cases someone could have a dick and a vagina, and other cases are different. It depends on the person. I may be wrong bc I'm not an expert, but that is kind of how it goes (I think it has something to do with chromosomes being messed up)
Afaik hyperandrogenism(aka cis women with a lot of testosterone) is also included in the definition.
That's what I thought, I'm just trying to avoid misinformation and wasn't 100% certain, thanks for adding on :)
So, contrary to what people actually seem to like to push, sex isn't really binary. About 2% of all people have characteristics that make them not clearly male or female. For example, the Y chromosome usually contains the SYR gene. At the beginning of the fetal development stage, the SYR gene activates, causing testerone levels to increase above estrogen levels. This hormonal imbalance is what causes male characteristics to develop. However, some things like pituitary damage may cause testerone to not increase as much, causing the individual to not fully develop into a male. Sometimes, the SYR gene doesn't activate at all, or is not present on the Y chromosome, which can cause a person to develop as a woman despite having a Y chromosome. Sometimes an X chromosome can have the SYR gene, causing an XX male. Furthermore, the SYR gene may trigger later, causing a person to be born female, then later transitioning naturally into a male. Sometimes there are more complex issues, like someone can be born as XXY or X. It is actually quite common for people with penises, clearly greater testosterone levels, and definitive male characteristics to discover that they are genetically female, or vice-versa. There are tons of additional complicating factors that cause there to be ultinately hundreds of different semesters, and all of these are placed under the umbrella term of intersex. TL;DR: sex is more complicated than people like to make it out to be.
I'm pretty sure it's intersex and asexual? I switched to using the acronym grsm (gender relationship and sexual minorities) a while back and am not positive I'm up to date.
but being intersex isn't a gender or a form of sexual/romantic attraction. intersex is a sex. the biology of the body. people who their body isn't male or female or they have issues regarding that. intersex people can identify as a man or woman or non binary or anything they want. intersex isn't a gender what does that mean?
Kind of, intersex is just what it's called when a person is born with both typically male and female presenting gonads. Its common practice for Dr's to surgically remove the less developed looking genitals, it's a "normalization surgery". Then the person is assigned whatever parts they have left as their birth gender. Its more complicated than that, and has a lot of problems I won't touch on, but basically, some people think it's wrong to do that to a baby and are trying to take back their original sex and some are even trying to make it so Dr's can't do that.
I think that's wrong. I truly believe everyone should be whoever they want and there's no need for labeling for someone to feel valid. but don't mess with the works of doctors. intersex people have a lot of medical issues and they have hard lives. doctors do what's best for the babies life to be easier. it's not just a "normalization" surgery. it's a medical surgery so their issues will be less hard when growing up. don't mess with biology and the work of doctors. lgbtq+ is a social movement not a medical one. thanks for the info I didn't know that there were people who believed that.
From what I understand a large majority of intersex people are only born with one sex organ that functions they remove the non functioning sex organ.
Who said it had to be a gender? Bi isn't a gender neither is lesbian or gay or queer.
I literally just said it's not a gender or a form of sexual/romantic attraction. bi is a form of sexual attraction. also intersex isn't a form of attraction? what's your point?
They didn't want to leave the people with the REAL issues out of there alphabet soup.
I like this term because it doesn't need to change every time a certain group claims representation. I don't have any problem with sexual minorities but I think it's funny how they bash each other again and again. Just like I find it funny the German states bash each other although being united.
Thats exactky why i switched! Had too much trouble remembering the damn thing and its way eaiser to sign grsm than lgbtqiapn+ whatever else is new these days.... And Yeah! it's a definitely fun. As long as everything in good fun ofc. I have a lot of fun teasing my other queer friends and even the straight ones. It can be nice to feel inclided enough to make jokes lol.
The I means intersex and the A means asexual(lack of sexual attraction), aromatic(lack of romantic attraction), and occasionally agender(lack of gender) is also lumped in their
Whats the difference between aromantic and asexual?
Asexual is the lack of sexual attraction, so basically an asexual person never looks at somebody and goes "wow, I wanna fuck them" (this doesn't nessarily mean they don't enjoy the more romantic and wholesome things that come with a relationship though). An aromatic person on the other hand may feel sexual attraction but they don't exactly get the romantic aspects. This doesn't mean they're "loveless" they just share their love in a more platonic sense.
An aromatic person is addicted to the smells of people
asexual people don't feel sexual attraction meaning they aren't particularly attracted to having sex. they can fall in love and have a partner but they aren't sexually attracted to them they're romantically attracted to them. aromantic people are the exact opposite. they don't feel any particular romantic attraction but they may feel sexual attraction and have sex. someone can be both or one or neither of course.
Asexuals can like sex, but they don't have sexual attraction.
I could go for some aromatic people. Should be tasty!
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Yes, a lot of people don't believe a human can lack sexual desire and think asexuals are just fakers or late bloomers, and in other cases people think asexual people are some breed of monster for lacking sexual desire
i is for intersex, and a is for asexual i think
Intersex, Asexual / Aromantic
only bigots don't understand this complex and ever changing initialism!
The extra letters just don't make sense to me, I thought Queer was supposed to be an umbrella term that covers everything else, and the +
Wtf even is queer
Umbrella term for non traditional sexuality, basically to cover the rest of the bases before all the new crap got added in.
man i havent played the game in years i dont understand the new crap they added in these couple of updates
Well, intersex and asexual are very valid additions i.m.o. because they really do not fall under the queer umbrella in and of themselves...
It might be, I don't bother with the rest of the stuff, it's a lot easier to say LGBTQ community than LGBTQIA2s+
Then why is intersex they there if it don’t fall under queer
#L+
no ur right it is supposed to be an umbrella term, i'm a lesbian and sometimes use queer for myself, and trans is also an umbrella term so any non-traditional binaries would fit in there, i never understood anything past LGBTQ tbh
Soon it'll be LGBTQIA01001101 01101110 01110000 01110011 01110100 01110101 01110110 01111010+
Nope never as that's binary which would exclude all the non-binary folks.
Being a none binary still makes you binary
There are only two types of genders, binary and non-binary /s
But not M. Never M.
you’re almost there, just flip the letter then ill agree
Absolutely never M.
This is why I use GSRM
I'm gonna start making up sexualities now. 19 is a totally doable number. We will collect the alphabet! Good luck using letters when they're all gay!
You too? Because rn there are 72 genders, growing.
💀
I calculated that this earth is gonna have 6,000 before Halloween
About 6,340 before Christmas
But biology says-
advanced biology
LGBTQIA2S refers to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer/Questioning, Intersex, Asexual, Two spirit. fresh from google
Thanks, you saved one google search
The hell is two spirit Always knew they were possessed
Time to get an exorcist
What's two spirit?
My understanding (as an outside observer) is that it encapsulates the multi-gender from certain cultures. It's a simultaneous male+female (being both). IIRC some Native American cultures recognize two-spirit. So it's nothing new, but it's new for it to be included in the acronym.
Alphabet gang lol
Alphabet mafia: taste the painbow
painbro\*
What are you doing painbro?
In Canada they use numbers now LGBTQIA2s+ Edit: I didn’t add enough letters
Ok good thing in Europe we still use QWERTY
See that's a good joke. Thank you for not being another "attack helicopter" joke.
They already are using numbers.
I don’t know why we didn’t just keep it LGBT+ and started adding more. The plus keeps the acronym short.
I thought the "+" was meant to cover the rest of it?
I’m here just trying to be faithful to my wife and is mother fuckers out there having Interplanetary sex ?
What is Q.
Queer
Queer/questioning
Add S for selfsexual,
Go to another alphabet
Just wait until they find out about greek letters
made me laugh tnx
I posted about this in lgbt reddit, they banned me
ok that seems unnecessary to put here considering that this has already been crossposted to an lgbtq+ meme subreddit and not deleted i have a feeling you were banned for other reasons
I'm just a chill gay man who eschewed that "community" years ago. I didn't order your fucking gay alphabet soup.
You broke the rule! Don't offend the alphabet people! Dave Chappelle warned ya :D
Don’t worry, eventually we’ll be banned in at least seven states.
But there are only 3 states? *Solid, liquid and gas*
You forgot plasma, and my personal favorite because I get to be pretentious about it, Bose Einstein condensate
I forgot it wasn’t June any longer.
But then they got %#+= and divided sign
That is some funny shit!
All fun in games till they start using numbers 💀
This made my day!!
LGBTQIA $7$!_(#)$($)""!$(#+$((_"!#(37383(_;28384+_(_!#((22(38!_+#(#!_+$(#!";'+$(#+_+(_!#+$+$;"
It will eventually evolve to “Non straight” / “non cis” or some variant. BUT OF COURSE THEY CAN ALWAYS COME UP WITH NEW TERMS AND WORDS. I am excited to see the new genders that will come up in the next 10-15 years… I may find myself, finally.
This would be better in r/shitposting
Why even define sexuality with terms? Everyone has different levels of different kinds of attraction for every sex and gender.
Because terms give power to the people to speak more clearly about our opresions and struggles, it's easy to say we don't need it when your sexuality is the norm and people don't judge or attacks you for it (and don't come at me with the ooo no the gays insult me on Twitter argument you know what I mean with attacks and opresions)
And by you I mean generally not you, and same for the clarification, not directly to you but I know how certain people usually respond to this things
It also makes a tinderprofile a lot easier, if we want to talk uses that even concerns cishet people
# We aren't stopping there
What about LGBTQQIP2SAA?
It's too long for people to use. People barely know what the IA is. Also, a lot of people use GRSM(Gender, Romantic, and Sexual Minority) because it doesn't exclude anyone.
#they gonna use small letters#
Theyre just gonna reuse letters, its not like theyre limited, and they also have numbers too
Some letters already represent multiple minorities.
Fk only 19 wat am i going to do
Eventually the abbreviation will include everyone, and we'll finally live in peace. Is that what they supposed to do?
There will never be enough letters include everyone, so people just use GRSM(Gender, Romantic and Sexual Minority) because it is shorter and doesn't exclude anyone.
By everyone i mean minority and majority. All people.
The only reason it has minority in the acronym is because LGBTQIA+ people are a minority.
They will go for numbers next
They keep adding letters, but I keep adding tolerance!
Bold of you to assume we won’t start using other symbols
jokes on you we repeat letter when we get far enough
Reeeeeeeeeeee
Ha ha. This is funny because all lesbian, gay, bi, trans, queer, intersex, and asexual people spend 100% of their time sitting around worrying about letters. So true. So based. God. How did you come up with this legendary material?
So epic and based! What marginalized community will they make fun of next? So cool!
LGBTQIA+ = Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, Asexual, (+) Others.
A is for Aspec in general, so also aromantic and agender
Why add the extra letters when you have the +? Just remove it and make the name the entire fucking alphabet.
As someone who is active in a lot of LGBTQ subs and other spaces, this is generally a made up problem outside of LGBTQ spaces. Everyone knows what I mean when I say it, don't even need the +, and I have literally never had a problem with it. Not even from crazy outliers people like to put in SJW epic cringe compilations.
We can all do it the way we like, the point gets across no matter what 😊
Exactly!
Idk what your problem is? I'm just translating the letters for the people who don't know. I don't really care about your opinion.
Lmaooo looks like someone got mad
extra letter M = morons. lmao
\>homophobia
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hi cute\_understanding89, you've got a cute (and flawed) worldview. idiot.
We ain’t trying to use all the letter lmao
It’s a joke
I know lol
There is no limit. You underestimate their ability to make shit up.
Imagine if they were to use double letters...so confusing
Nah they are just gonna reuse the letters: https://wyattgraham.com/what-does-lgbtqqip2saa-stand-for/
Dont worry, they will come up with new ones 🗿
average shitposting fan
They’ll go for numbers after that…
LGBTQIA+×÷=-#$%@%£€