Hello this is a message for River if you are not River keep scrolling.
Hey Riv-
Imma just bring attention to some of the comments you've been making lately, cuz I actually DO have a bit of a problem with them. Before you go off on me, I am a nonbinary Pan-Ace person in a committed relationship to a woman who I love very much. So no, I am very much not a cis, nor am I het.
First of all-I GET that sometimes people do things that are ignorant, or that just personally make you uncomfortable as a queer person. Now let's note that-things that make YOU personally uncomfortable. Just because you don't personally like the way something is done in regards to the LGBTQ+ community does not mean it is homophobic or some sort of attack.
Second of all-You cannot, cannot, CANNOT make vague comments not naming names about events regarding the queers that pissed you off in the main comments. That's really passive aggressive, and instead of educating the person who hurt you, you're instead just hurting and upsetting them back. If someone hurt you, have an actual, respectful dialogue with them. You'll never get anywhere if you just attack them AND oftentimes they didn't know what they were doing was wrong. Ignorance and intolerance ARE different. Someone not knowing something isn't the same as someone wanting to be a dick.
Third of all- in regards to the most recent thing that made you upset. As a person existing outside of the gender binary and who has many close friends who openly identify as trans(and by the way the person who made that post was openly trans soooooo...), I don't think it's offensive at all to introduce someone who is openly trans as trans IN CERTAIN CONTEXTS. This was an OC, who a TRANS person had created. In cases like that, introducing them as Trans is to provide representation for others and themselves. For literal centuries, people couldn't be themselves and there's a lot of people who still can't be themselves now. Being open and sharing these things as an out member of the LGBTQ+ community is a way to express our pride, and to tell others who are still in the closet that they are seen and loved by their community.
