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How can the T and Q in LGBTQ be better considered and understood by average people?

Profile: Anonymous
Anonymous on Jul 11, 2017
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People need to come from a place of tolerance and understanding. It isn't anyone's job to educate someone else on how to treat human beings as human beings.
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Profile: BubbleTeaBrain
BubbleTeaBrain on Nov 14, 2017
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Transgender is a conversion of genders and a queer person is someone who still has not decided their sexuality or gender yet.
Profile: Anonymous
Anonymous on Nov 14, 2017
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I think the first step is to better understand what gender is and why it's different than sex. Once that is firmly established in a person's mind, they will be more able to comprehend the rest.
Profile: bubbleshoes
bubbleshoes on Dec 4, 2017
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The T in LGBTQ stands for "transgender" which is a person who identifies with a gender that is different than what they were assigned at birth. The Q, stands for Queer, which is a term for people who identify with other forms sexuality, gender, and sexual identity that do not specifically identify as LGBT. This could include those who are pansexual, asexual, demisexual, non-bianary, and is not exclusive to many other identities. The term Queer should generally only be used within the LGBTQ community (usually used as slang for anyone idenfying as LGBTQ), by those who identify with this label, and for educational means, as it is highly stigmatized and is considered a slur.
Profile: Gaeboi
Gaeboi on Jul 9, 2018
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Transgender people's gender identity does not match that assigned at birth for example a person assigned female at birth transitioning to be male. Or a person assigned male at birth transitioning to be female. There are other identities such as non-binary, gender queer and demi boy/girl (there are lots more but this is just to name a few) Queer people may identify differently to lgb but not specifically wanting to label it for example someone who is unsure of their sexuality could say they are queer. Or someone who prefers to not label their sexuality but still does not want to identify within the heterosexual label.
Profile: sushmaramesh
sushmaramesh on Nov 16, 2020
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I think that the best way is to share resources that educate people. A lot of people don't understand because they haven't heard about it before, or have only seen what the media shows. Try your best to spread educational sites and apps that teach people what being trans and queer really mean, and that would be at least a step in the right direction! it is part of the LGBTQ community because trangender people are not cis gender. therefore, the are accepted by most LGBTQ What's needed is exposure, and the right kind. Not all this sensationalized media nonsense that's being thrown around, but actual, normal transpeople helping cisgender and other non-binary people to understand what it really means to be trans*. That day will come, eventually.
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