A message for allocishet people and everyone else who seems to misunderstand:
There is a difference between homophobia/aphobia/transphobia/biphobia/panphobia and simply not understanding something.
I'm sick of people defending those who are against gay marriage/gender transition or openly shit on specific LGBTQ+ folks, saying “They just don't understand. They haven't lived through it. They don't know what those people experience so they can't sympathize.”
First off - Bitch, if you don't understand, ASK. And LISTEN. It's that simple. Actually make an effort to care about your fellow human beings.
Don't imagine you couldn't marry the same gender. Imagine you couldn't marry the one you love.
Don't imagine how gays will be bad with kids, imagine you could never have kids.
Don't imagine yourself becoming the opposite gender or claiming yourself genderless. Imagine you'd have the wrong genitals for your whole life, with the gender mindset you gave now.
Don't imagine not having sex/relationships. Just let people live the way they want, it's not your fucking business.
Second off - You don't have to fully understand something to not be an ass. You can educate yourself or just let people be. Who's hurting you with their identity?
“Marriage should only be between a man and a woman.“ -okay again, how will this change ANYTHING in your life? Stop being ignorant.
“Biological sex should not be changed.” -honey last time I checked noone forced you to change your sex so calm down and let live.
“They're just trying to be interesting! They're making it up!”. -and that's crushing your self-worth or something? Why do you give a shit about how other people express themselves? Nothing like that will hurt you.
If you just disagree with LGBTQ+ people because you don't understand them, you're still being -phobic. It's like saying “I'm not racist, I just don't agree with how black people look like. They shouldn't look like that.”
Even if you're not attacking anyone, it's still sad that you make zero effort to sympathize with them. You go about your day, not agreeing with something people can't change about themselves and denying them the simple joys of life.
If you're gonna think like that, at least be honest about it and don't go defending yourself or others like that with being unable to understand someone. Because you don't really want to understand. You just don't like the change that has nothing to do with you.