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arguewithatree  ·  3543 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Fanciest Genderqueer You’ll Ever Meet

is the neutral mechanism you're referring to "it"? because that's a really shitty dehumanizing thing to call a person. a person is not an it. a chair is an it. a rock is an it.

to turn it on the flipside, why does it chafe your ass so much to call someone by their desired label? people (especially cis- and hetero- people) love to assume that they don't need to label things because of and consequently quash the multitude of identities out there. the problem with limiting the span of identities to the simple LGBT acronym is simply that: limiting. gay-bisexual-straight simply doesn't cover the veritable rainbow of sexualities. a person is not just cis or trans; they can be anything in between. the beautiful thing about labels is that they define things for marginalized people who haven't be able to put labels on their identities. it feels great as a person of fluid sexuality to know that there are other people out there that identify out of the boxes we're told to strictly follow.