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New rule of if you can’t explain it to a two year old then it’s not lgbt.
Ex: you can’t explain asexuality to a two year old cuz then you literally need to bring up sex and explain to them what sex is for them to understand why your different.
And don’t argue you need to do this with all specialities cuz homosexual? “I like boys/girls”, bisexual? “I like both x and y (or however the person wants to explain). Pansexual? “Gender doesn’t effect who I can fall in love with”.
Then transgender + nonbinary “I present as a boy/girl/nb person even tho my body doesn’t traditionally match it”
Main point? LGBT is kid friendly, we don’t have to hide ourselves from small children since we don’t have to explain sex to them.
Asexual by default have to have the person their talking to know what sex is for it to have any effect on how that person views them, and kids don’t need a know about the blood rush to your 1 inch dick at the age of 2.
asexuality for 2 year olds: “some people like boys/girls/nb people and some people dont like anyone and thats okay”
Okay if you can explain homosexuality and heterosexuality without mentioning sex then LITERALLY WHY can you not just say “some people like boys, some people like girls, and some people like neither”
What the hell is this fresh nonsense that people who don’t have sex are the real sexually explicit ones???
Or, yknow, “hey remember how everyone keeps saying you’ll get crushes on people when you grow up, well sometimes you don’t”
Because I definately know that fellow kids comprehended it in that sense back when I was in school, and that was the lens through which they bullied me. And the lens through which I lived terrified that literally everyone else on the planet grew up to marry someone, and there must be something physically wrong with me because everyone else was changing at puberty and I just didn’t. And what also didn’t change is that people didn’t stop telling me ‘you’re too young to know’ when I was 18, when I was 20, when I was 25… None of my parental figures ever bothered to explain that asexuality existed, in fact they just treated me as a freak whenever I tried to talk about my “problem”, and tried to find “solutions” to “cure” me. And I would have gone on thinking I was “sick” forever if I hadn’t happened to stumble upon some education on the internet. If anyone had even just ONCE said “its okay to not have crushes on anyone, other people like that actually exist” when I was a lil kid, it would have saved me a universe of hurt!
Oh and apparantly in the notes OP started weirdly moving the goalposts like “but you can’t explain the difference between asexual and aromantic!”
Like.. just.. why would you HAVE to?
Do you explain to a kid that two gay guys in love might also have sex? Do you explain in detail the difference between homoromantic and homosexual, and how people can be one without the other? Is it particularly necessary, and would they remotely understand?
You can just say ‘asexual’ as a blanket term for all the variations in this community, as it’s generally used. Or ‘ace’, if you believe that just having the word sex in it is bad. Though I mean kids still hear their parents saying homosexual and heterosexual anyway.
And seriously don’t act like asexuality is the only part of LGBTQ that has multiple concepts within it that might be hard to understand for people outside of the community. If you can accept that trans people can also be nonbinary or genderfluid, then you can accept this.
Just because it’s “harder to explain to kids” doesn’t mean that it doesn’t exist, there’s plenty of people who say that homosexuality is “too hard to explain to kids” or “inherantly sexual somehow”. It’s stupid when they say it and it’s stupid now. And geez do taxes not exist just cos kids don’t understand them? Does sex itself not exist because it isn’t child appropriate? Does nothing exist once we graduate high school? Do we all submit to the void?
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