As a straight man, it is not my place to enforce what anyone wants to call themselves-- as an ally the best thing I can do is listen, but it's important to spea

As a straight man, it is not my place to enforce what anyone wants to call themselves-- as an ally the best thing I can do is listen, but it's important to speak up, too, to use the privilege I have for good when I can. I'll note that I didn't mean to come across as the ultimate authority on the taxonomy of minorities to which I do not belong. The commenter to whom I was responding had dismissively referred to LGBTQIA+ as "letter people" who scold you for getting it wrong, and I was pointing out that the letters are really not some impossible to divine thing, it's just an acronym like HDMI or SCSI that describes some ways real people identify themselves. >I perceive as the desire to try to turn the LGBT rights movement into a generic left wing movement is harmful to our end goal of equality for queer people everywhere - The end goal should be to make LGBT rights and acceptance an uncontroversial issue across the entire political spectrum. I find myself confused. You seem to be saying that a subgroup of the greater community of gender and sexual minorities are turning GSM rights into a leftist thing. How exactly does one go about doing that? One side of the political spectrum outright rejects the validity of GSM rights, and the other doesn't, and you're saying the side that doesn't is somehow at fault?