#do not respond

The only thing you need to be to be LGBT+ is to not be cishet and for asexuality and aromanticism to be validated as real and true identities, you all have to accept that they are not hetero-lite and are inherently queer adjacent

I’m tired of discourse and these are my last words on the matter. If you disagree, maybe you should check your understanding of what a community created for non-cishet people was founded for if not to protect and spread awareness of sexual and romantic identities (and transgender people) that are not heterosexual

Exclusionists also need to recognize that their belief system was built primarily to dispute and belittle asexual and aromantic identities and their placement in the LGBT+ community was a last minute backwash on that discourse. Exclusionism was never about whether or not asexuals and aromantics are considered queer, but whether or not they actually existed. You’re fighting with people who have been arguing the same people for years about whether or not their identities are real and who have been accepted into the community years before you decided they didn’t

Discourse around asexual and aromantics is the exact same as TERFs and truscum who feed off of each other and blatantly ignore their roots in transphobia, homophobia, racism, classism, and sexism to argue a point that was made purely to brainwash more people into following their cause

Asexuals and aromantics are LGBT+ and that is final and finished. This isn’t a debate anymore, it never was. You’re just pawns in a years long debate on our existence that got out of control