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[–] blaine@kbin.social -4 points 2 years ago (5 children)

If we already have the plus at the end of LGBTQ+, why do we have to keep adding new letters/numbers every couple of months?

The year is 2029, the headline:
"Bigoted man under arrest for harassing 2SLWYTABNCLGBTQJSHGF+ individual."

This shit is getting out of control.

[–] kbrot@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Gonna be the optimist here and simply educate.

America isn't the whole world. This article is Canadian. Canada's First Nations (and all Indigenous but especially them) believe one version of gender nonconformity comes from the person being of two spirits simultaneously. Hence two-spirit (2S). Today you're one of the 10,000. Congrats.

[–] dom@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago

I think the point of the question was, why wasn't that included on the "+"

And now that I think about it, what determines what's in the "+" and what isnt

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