my twitter thread from today

The thread, I think I made a few editorial changes. I wrote it up, let it sit. Went back and tweaked. Tweaked again, and again. Let it sit. Came back to it, made one more tweak and hit publish.

Also, unusual was leaving it so that no one could comment. Twitter is about discussion, this was more of a chance/desire to say all this and leave it as a thought bit, not a discussion bit. 

best choice? Dunno, but feels more appropriate that way somehow. Stifles the agreement but more importantly doesn't give the outrage a place to vent. Sometimes (most times) comments are not good. Solobreak's comments here on this blog excepted. 

first opening tweet

Got thinking about a sensitive but important topic that tends to be divisive and me as a CHWM has no place doing more than wondering about inclusivity. 

Along the lines of why not use Pansexual instead of Bisexual? Doesn't Bi entrench the whole TERF argument? 

edited to this:

Something this morning got me thinking about a sensitive & important topic, specifically why isn't Pansexual used instead of Bisexual? It seems Bi can empower the TERF argument? 

It isn't my place to judge, especially as a CHWM, but working on inclusivity is a challenge for all.

the rest

The internet has answers, none that seem to resolve it, and most just accept and use it as inclusive. Isn't it just one more barrier for the T and NB individuals/community to contend with? 

Like this: Gay at one point was inclusive and only became gendered recently

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/01/dont-call-me-lgbtq/576388/ 

Of course Q has obvious political issues, and there's push back from the drop the B campaign as seen here from the UK source Pink news: https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2018/06/15/drop-the-b-bisexual-lgbt/

There is no question that the gender binary inaccurately classifies humans, genetics and science shows us this. 

This thread https://twitter.com/RebeccaRHelm/status/1207834357639139328 is a fabulous read on that topic.

My rumination on my bike commute this morning started me wondering: were there forces of exclusion driving the selection of B instead of using P for pansexual? Perhaps let the sex industry have the B and make the move to LGPT+?

I'm contemplating this as a parent, a friend, a colleague, but clearly (although unbreakably tied to the community) I'm still outside of it. 

To close this I'd like to leave it with this:

If you're not working actively to include people (on any scale from personal to global), you are entrenching the exclusions that isolate them. 

Do  better. Do good.