When I was an exclu I found out I was put on an exclu blocklist and thought "Why? I'm not hurting anyone". Now, after seeing the depths of how toxic exclu rhetoric can get, I understand that I was. [Thread ]

I may not have been sending death threats or attacking anyone, but I was standing for beliefs that cause LGBTQ+ people to live in fear; even within the LGBTQ+ community, which should be their home. Instead of being in solidarity with them, I was uncaring and dismissive.

I think we are all capable of more productive, nuanced discussions to discuss our feelings on the matter - and they should be conducted with the intent to understand. Once you learn to understand others, you realize that's what inclusionism is. Understanding.

You don't have to understand what it's like to be X, but you do need to know that humans are too complex & wonderful to be placed into neat little boxes. There are always grey areas, overlaps in the Venn diagram. We're always going to be messier than the systems we create.

People are allowed to live in those grey areas, those overlaps. People are allowed to try to figure themselves out and embrace themselves. As LGBTQ+ folk, we should be celebrating outliers - as that is what we are ALL considered to be in our cisheteronormative world.

Cruel behaviour, such as harassment & death threats, is not on. We're all in this together. Support & safeguard your LGBTQ+ family, because there's a good chance the person you trying to exclude *also* doesn't have any other family - and we'll include them with or without you.

Apparently this needs to be said, because people are that ridiculous: I am *not* talking about pedos. Don't throw that whataboutism at me, or anyone. Safeguarding the LGBTQ+ community includes protecting minors from literal PREDATORS. Comparing us to pedos is always a bad take.