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LGBTQIA+ 8w
i’m reading abt how there used to not be a difference between homosexual and transgender
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Anonymous 8w

wait, what? who you are attracted to, and what you identify as, have always been different things. You could be a white dude really into Latinas, for instance, without having to become Latino along the way. They're not the same thing and never have been.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 8w

apparently in the 19th and 20th centuries they were often lumped into the same category of “gender opposite”

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 8w

tru dat tho #ithinklatinasarepretty 😘

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 8w

I suppose it's possible that Puritans just hand waved everyone as queer folk or something, but surely no one's ever been stupid enough to conflate the two...

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 8w

ye..

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