me: genderqueer has a lot of history, and has been very important to our communities, and has been sabotagued and pushed down in favour of terms that play into respectability politics and assimilation, to make our identities more plattable towards not just straight people, but also the general lgbt+ community.
u all: #slurs
what are these more respectable terms OP is referring to?
trans/transgender, non-binary, bigender, agender, gender-fluid. you know, more concise and technical terms, so we appear more academic and respectable when discussing our complex gender identities.
Same is true of words like queer, fag, queen, tranny, dyke. These things are part of our history AND reclaimed slurs and campaigns to get people to stop using them as self-identifiers are very little about stopping people from hearing slurs (after all Gay gets used as a slur all the time and no one is trying to ban it) and are really way more about making LGBT+ people seem as respectable and nonsexual as possible.
