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Chills. I can’t imagine my own high school showing up like this less than a decade ago to protest disgusting legislation like Florida’s Don’t Say Gay bill. The support Gen Z shows for the LGBTQ community is breathtaking.
The fight goes on. Keep it up.
I think you all need to know the consequences of this brave action.
The kid who started the walkout at the original school was indefinitely suspended, even though he had permission for the demonstration (their excuse is that he got permission for the walkout, but not for the little Pride flags he handed out). Other participating kids at other schools have similarly been punished.
Teachers who supported students walking out are also being punished, fired, blacklisted from working at other schools.
Homophobic kids are ratting out their fellow students and teachers for supporting the walkout to get them in trouble with school administrations.
The consequences are continuing.
So yes, applaud this - this is great, and it’s brave, and it’s inspiring. But be aware of what the reaction has been.
Remember there are always consequence — doesn’t mean don’t to the thing but be aware of and plan (as best you can) for the consequences
I see a lot of posts saying bisexuality has only recently been ‘redefined’ to include nonbinary folk, so I want to be clear:
The bi community has been inclusive of trans-including nonbinary-people for decades.
Bi organizations have defined bisexuality as attraction to more than one gender or attraction to the same and other genders since at least the 90s, well before mainstream society (and many parts of cis gay society) began to even consider that trans people might be anything other than, at best, a punchline.
From the Bisexual Manifesto, published in 1990 in the bi magazine Anything That Moves:
“Bisexuality is a whole, fluid identity. Do not assume that bisexuality is binary or duogamous in nature: that we have “two” sides or that we must be involved simultaneously with both genders to be fulfilled human beings. In fact, don’t assume that there are only two genders.”
Bisexuality has been inclusive of nonbinary people for decades.
The idea that it hasn’t been is a myth, created by a misinformation campaign starting in the late 2000s. We were constantly harassed for our ‘transphobic’ sexuality, online and off. This was even encouraged by major ‘LGBTQ’ orgs. It lead to many bi activists quitting and uncountable suicide attempts within the community. An already largely-closeted community was constantly silenced, supposedly in the name of ‘trans inclusion’, by people, usually cis, who just wanted an excuse to hate us and seem ‘progressive’.
The myth also comes from the fact so-called ‘LGBTQ’ orgs, who were and are mostly run by cis gay and straight folk, have only recently begun to update their definitions. Until recently, these orgs constantly excluded bi and trans folk, in name and in deed, often actively encouraging discrimination.
But, since these orgs are now ‘LGBTQ’ and, in fairness, have started to include bi and trans folk more, they are assumed to have always been ‘the voice of the LGBTQ community’. This is not the case. They ignored bi activists for years and even now often just tokenize us.
tl;dr Bisexuals have been inclusive of nonbinary people for decades, and many of us are nonbinary. It’s just that now, more people are listening to us.
