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kingmudsy  ·  3411 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Why L, G, B, and T together?

I wouldn't worry about anyone losing faith in you as a person or anything. You're coming here with a very obvious tone of, "I don't know this! Is someone able to explain it to me?" More importantly, you're not arguing with people who are trying to explain it to you, which is something I see all the time on posts like this.

That said, I disagree and think that the T should be kept in the acronym, and I would probably argue that it does less to marginalize transgender individuals than you think it does. If anything, I imagine it binds them to the LGB community, which gains them an important ally in the political sense.

Of course, I'm also a white heterosexual male, so anyone who actually knows how it is can feel free to correct me!