More monumental than making the news is that this lovely photo was also posted to the Navy’s own website. I look forward to the day this is not news, but it is wonderful to see and such a lovely message to all LGBT troops right before the holidays.
Thank you for your service ladies!!
Kindly quit fucking using LGBT when you really mean LGB, kthx.
Kindly quit fucking devaluing what happened with those two women.
Kindly quit fucking using such hateful speech at such a big achievement.
Kindly quit sounding like a childish douche.
Kindly quit using “kthx,” it makes me imagine a ten year old girl using “txt tlk.”
Kindly quit telling people they need to use more inclusive speech, then punishing those who try.
Kindly quit devaluing the adorableness of these two women.
kthx.
It took me a long time to figure out a response to this. Sorry. I wasn’t intending to do the whole avoiding thing this time.
You’re right about devaluing what happened. I’ll give you that. It wasn’t my intention, but intent isn’t magic. So I’ll go ahead and say now that this whole thing is very, very beautiful and makes me very, very happy.
I wasn’t directing my speech at what happened, at all, though. I was directing it at the wording someone used in reference to it. There’s a big difference between using inclusive language and tokenizing a whole group of people. I have a serious, serious issue with people and organizations using “LGBT” when all they really care about is, for example, gay marriage. Yes, it’s a serious issue. Yes, it’s one I care a lot about. But these same people and organizations often never give a flying fuck about trans issues, even though they claim to be LGBT. They don’t give a flying fuck about getting birth certificates changed, HRT, or SRS. Or the terrifyingly high levels of violence and the like directed towards trans people.
I probably shouldn’t have posted the way I did. But it rubs me completely the wrong way when trans people get tokenized.
