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[–] yucandu@lemmy.world 12 points 22 hours ago (4 children)

This is me once again seeing the LGBTQ+ initialism and asking people to switch to the more respectable and scientific term "Sexual and Gender Minorities" or SGM for short.

Or queer. Or the archaic gender neutral 'gay'¹

¹but not the modern more masculine gendered 'gay'

[–] DavidDoesLemmy@aussie.zone -3 points 11 hours ago

Wouldn't gender minorities include men? Women is the majority gender. I think you need a term that excludes cis men and women.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 points 17 hours ago

That's a reasonable request. In all honesty I will probably stick with the notation i've already been using the last several decades. Same Sex Attraction/-ed/&c. is also theoretically a respectable and scientific term, but i've been around too many people who use it as a slur so i'm not sold on adopting scientific nomenclature for colloquial use.

[–] spinne@sh.itjust.works 2 points 19 hours ago

Fair request, duly noted. Thank you for the info