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> LGBTQIAA2S+

Not sure if you're mocking the LGBT group or what? Is that a real thing now? Googling it gives me only a (seemingly) mocking Urban Dictionary entry.

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You're using the wrong search engine, I get loads of examples:

https://queerevents.ca/events/toronto/social/2020-02-08/lgbt...

http://internationalstudentconnect.org/lgbtqiaa2s

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-tees-46418045

etc.

I've seen longer versions of the same in use like LGGBDTTTIQQAAP, this is used for some 'inclusiveness training' by the Canadian Elementary Teachers Federation (ETFO) of Ontario, it supposedly stands for Lesbian, Gay, Genderqueer, Bisexual, Demisexual, Transgender, Transsexual, Twospirit, Intersex, Queer, Questioning, Asexual, Allies, Pansexual and Polyamorous.

Wouldn't it be better to have a word that describes the person as 'other than majority' rather than a really long acronym? Similarly as we use the word foreigner instead of listing every possible nationality.

Of course it would, the way these terms are being made up and expanded is self-defeating. From hispanic to latino to latinx, from homosexual to gay and lesbian to lesbian and gay to (too many words, let's use an acronym) LGB to LGBT to LGBTQ to half the alphabet plus some interpunction - I've heard the term 'alphabet people' being bandied around. This is a natural outcome of intersectionality, everyone will want to see his group represented in the terminology. It resembles the scene in Monty Python's Life of Brian where the PFJ (People's Front of Judea) confess their hatred of the JPF, the other JPF, the JPPF and then some.

please don't ever assume bad faith on this site. I'm from Canada, so the 2S throws off a lot of Americans. 2S is two-spirited and comes from Indigenous culture.

I didn't assume it, that's why I googled the acronym first, but I found only a mocking UD entry, so I asked.

I am European btw. This is the first time I heard about two-spiritedness.

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