Please explain these to me. I'm a cis male and I consider

There's nothing wrong with "questioning." People that aren't sure if they're GBT should feel comfortable exploring that and it's been there long before this faggotry.

>pan: I'd probably fuck a tranny, pay attention to how progressive I am.
>gq: I think gender = clothes, but only when it's convenient for me.
>demi: I have butterflies around my crush instead of disgusting lust like the plebians around me, I'm oppressed
>transsexual: former term for transgender people, became unpopular thanks to porn connotations
>twospirit: a native american cultural gender that fat white college kids skim articles on to justify why they have a new gender for every outfit
>allies: cishetero people that support the rights and protections lgbt people

>>8799938
ah yeah these people are fucking stupid, and a lot of us hate them. Although, certain "progressive" retards think they're a thing. Let me clear it up for you:

>Questioning
Not lgbt wtf
>Pansexual
Redundant, basically the same as bisexual
>Genderqueer
often snowflake bullshit but sometimes valid, basically people who don't fit into the male/female binary
>demisexual
total snowflake bullshit, not LGBT. People who don't experience sexual attraction without emotional connection (ya know, like a decent portion of the population). Basically people who want to be special and want to make a personality trait a sexuality (it's fucking not). Also a way for certain retarded progressives to get more oppression points in their social/political circles.
>Transsexual
Redundant, same as transgender
>Twospirit
The native american concept for transgenderism. they were considered to have 2 spirits, being born one gender but feeling like another. It isn't really a thing anymore, and is mostly used to say WESTERN CULTURE IS SO DISCRIMINATORY LOOK NATIVE AMERICANS WERE COOL WITH TRANSGENDERED PEOPLE ignoring the fact the twospirit was only recognised by like, 3 tribes, and that they were often priests who were killed if things went wrong. If you see anyone using this to identify, they're a retarded snowflake.
>allies
not lgbt, basically people who want a pat on the back for not hating lgbt.

Basically, I hate people changing our fucking acronym, most of it is utter bullshit anyway

Jesus. There's a reason it took me so long to even remotely approach boards like this, and it wasn't because I was knee-deep in the closet so much as absolutely dreading having to deal with this sort. So many terms, and so many people demanding you "get with the times" and use them properly "or else... something, you intolerant ass." Yey. So welcoming; so accepting.

I have since discovered that this sort is a branch of an LGBTQ tree I can avoid and still support the rest of the tree.

Right, to your questions. These terms are *actually* more of an academic or assessment thing- doctor-to-doctor (etc) so that you don't have to each write a dissertation on the same client to make sure you're both on the same page- than they are something someone should be carrying around as a solid part of their identity, sort of like being diabetic doesn't define you, but still, the terms existing at all are useful and good to know to help quickly explain perspective and experience.

>Genderqueer
Essentially, that you don't quite fit the "bill" for either "dysmorphic" gender's stereotypes, male or female, for your culture. This is more than just not adhering to those standards.

>Demisexual
I've never quite grasped this one and admit that I know relatively little firsthand. It's been explained to me that this means they don't really have any particular sexual attraction to another person until they really get to know them better. Someone else may be able to give a more accurate answer here.

>Transsexual
Today: "transgender." For one, "transsexual" was a bad descriptor, as no one is changing their sex at all. "Gender's" the key word here, what gender traits and roles a person feels most at peace with. To *most* cis (or "non-trans") people, with the exception of a joke, trying to look like the opposite gender would feel uncomfortable. Downright uncomfortable. The same can be said of *most* trans people: they see themselves as the opposite gender, on multiple-levels.

I remember seeing this thread before. Hmmmm.

>>8800171
Continued:

>Two-spirit
Native American cultural group (speaking very generally- I do not know the *actual* context beyond this), can be described as a person gifted with the spirit of both genders. This has become an adopted term (I hate "appropriated, " but that probably applies here as the term's been removed of most of its context, people using it casually). Usually trans folks whom find the reverence given to historical two-spirits appealing when compared to the ridicule or unease\confusion they often get in most modern cultures. There are still Native Americans whom are identified as two-spirit and would have more to say on the real thing.

>Allies
Included as a solidarity thing, which is why LGBTQ is an acronym at all despite the last three having fairly different experiences from the first two "members" of the acronym.

>Polyamorous
Yep, you got it. It's probably included here as a sexual orientation, similar to pansexual (attracted to anyone, regardless of that person being gay, trans, etc) or demisexual. All of these sexual orientation terms come down to this: "Here are the circumstances under which I'm typically sexually attracted." If you're not into attack helicopters, you're not into attack helicopters. Again, I think these terms are useful in an academic sense, but as a sense of identity that people cling to, I've got very mixed feelings. Labels are helpful in that they help to normalize otherwise unusual circumstances for the person experiencing them: a lesbian can see that there are other lesbians that exist at all and seek some advise and support from them, sexual fulfillment aside. But labels are also very limiting: it's easy for someone with a label to feel so drawn to advocating for and justifying their experience that they can't just "live." Humans are nuanced: we spend a lot of time debating whether a label fits a certain sort of person while those people that can't find a label feel they need to make one. Possible to have too many.

>>8799938
>How is polyamorous even included? That's just someone who likes to have multiple sexual partners.

Technically it's people who claim that they are able to be "in love" with more than one partner and share each other accordingly - a little different than just having multiple sexual partners. But I get what you're saying - labeling absolutely everything is retarded.

I actually support the term "transsexual" for people who actually want to change their sex organs. That's more or less all anyone cares about when it comes to your sex (Don't believe me? How many interviews constantly veer towards genitals?) and at this point transwomen/transmen living normal lives have to put up with some insufferable bullshit from assholes who have no dysphoria.

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>>8799938
You know we don't go for this shit on 4chan.

This is stupid. GLB are sexualities, T and I are medical conditions, other is bullcrap.

Ps: Intersex people are a lot more. One in 1000 boy is born XXY, only that they function normally male, some sre without body hair, some have troubles with fertility, but that is it.

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>>8799938
>OP purposefully forgets Bisexual
>obvious case of BI-ERASURE
TRIGGERED so hard I barfed

>>8799938
There's a point at which your acronym becomes unwieldy and needs to be swapped out for a word, and we have clearly passed it.

>>8799938
>I'm a cis male and I consider myself tolerant of the lgbt community
GET INTO THE OVEN