[ncod] I feel like today is an important day for me to say: ace people are a welcome part of the community, including heteroromantic asexuals and aromantic heterosexuals, and bi/pan people in a relationship with a different gender are as well. And I believe any attempt to exclude a group from the community should be viewed with suspicion.
This includes other identities that I didn’t name here, but these are two of the ones that I am especially aware get attacked by exclusionists.
Also to keep with the theme of the day, I’m trans and my sexuality is [data corrupted]. (By which I mean figuring that out is currently on the back burner when it comes to my priorities.) I’d generally say I’m queer.
Last year, I made a private-locked plurk where I rambled about this at length,
but the short version is that I ended up going back into the closet for years based on reading a transmedicalist definition of how one “had to be” to be trans even though, now that I am allowing myself to explore who I am, I find that I fit the description they used for who could be trans almost exactly.
And, like, when people try to elaborate on “(x) group isn’t really queer/LGBTQIA+,” it’s so far always looked an awful lot like what the people who convinced me that I wasn’t “trans enough” and I would make it harder on “real” trans people if I claimed otherwise said to me.
So, like, fuck that. 
nods loudly
Muse says Ace Rights
Heck yeah!
Thank you for this, Yosie. 
I'd never been told by a member that I'm welcome to the community until now and it really warms my heart.
I'd never been told by a member that I'm welcome to the community until now and it really warms my heart.
I’m sad that it took this long, but I’m glad I was able to tell you. You are always welcome in my community and I know a lot of queer people who would agree. 
Anytime. 
thanks yosie
I'm only where I am now thanks to the help of supportive people in my life, so I'm happy to do this little thing to help support others.