But lumping a wide set individuals into a 7 letter acronym is not always helpful.
We need to allow people to express themselves as they see fit according to their circumstance.
When we stick a 7 letter acronym onto someone it gives everyone else a license to select the letter they which to apply to that person.
Individuals do not need acronyms to communicate their station in life. Words work very well - and they can help avoid misunderstanding.
If I refer to someone as LGBTQIA, what am I saying? It's a large group. And subsets of that group have very important differences.
I truly hope that someday, generic labels like these will become relics.
LGBTQIA is unfortunately a tag that some people (and by some people I mean idiots) use to to indicate 'non-hetero', 'not like me', 'not normal', 'not mainstream', 'not as my god intended'.
On the other hand, lumping all these people together does give them more political and cultural power as a group - and that is definitely important! I just wish that the 7 letters can also be used with clear language so that individuals are not ignored and that our diverse subgroups of humanity can live and thrive.
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