floralgays

"why be straight and cis when u can be queer and tr-"

hi lets not treat lgbtq+ identities like fashion trends

kaiju-camaro

uh, i feel like those types of posts are more suggesting people explore their identities rather than just sticking to a socially enforced norm? dont make transness this Exclusive Club… this makes people scared to explore their identities. like, come on. let people test other orientations out. let them try things on. if they dont like it they can go back to being straight and cis but dont discourage experimentation 

aobatoppingnoiz

Ive gone more in depth with this before but; I also feel like op’s thinking is enforcing the idea that sexual identity, gender identity, sexual orientation, etc dont exist on a spectrum, which they do. Some people (Im using myself as an example) learned to convince themselves that their queerness was invalid, that they were cis because “what other way is there to even be?”. If I hadnt been around my queer and trans friends and if I had felt like, since I dont feel like “I was born in the wrong body” (hate that idea btw) I must not be trans even though I dont feel 100% cis now that I know what cis and trans are. I always thought that since I was attracted to men as well as women that my queerness was invalid because the idea that..your Gay Thoughts Are All You Think About If Youre Really Gay makes bi/pan people feel REALLY confused. If we dont encourage everyone to explore these facets of themselves how can we ever hope to normalize transness and queerness?

earth-dad

yeah basically not everyone just “knows”“ theyre not cishet from birth like thats a requirement or something. ive known several people – myself included – who had to experiment with their gender/sexual orientations before they really came to understand themselves (i went through at least three different gender/sexual /romantic identity combinations before i really knew what i liked and was comfortable with being called). not everyone is hit in the face w the fact that theyre not cishet out of nowhere, sometimes you have to explore yourself a lot before it happens