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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (3 children)

This is a really interesting question.

Denying someone else's sexuality is linked to them having increased internalised homophonic, which causes all sorts of issues. The LGBT community are at increased risk of MH issues, self injury, suicide etc.

It can lead to someone denying their sexuality to themselves, meaning they live a lie. They can end up in a straight long term relationship but having gay sex behind their partners back.

Living a lie makes us vulnerable to any crime where blackmail helps the perp. Romance frauds, sexual abuse, domestic abuse etc are things the community is at particular risk for.

I can't emphasise enough how hard it can be to have this inner turmoil, shutting down "gay thoughts", sex with people we're not interested in etc. Then there's the shame, the shame of our sexuality and how horrible we can feel. Fortunately most of us IME accept it nowadays

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Thats not what I meant. What I mean is when people have a thought that someone is a certain way even if they really actually aren't, but because they think something they forcibly stop someone from being able to express their actual sexuality because of the bullshit they think

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 days ago

To answer your question a bit better, it can mess with everyone's sense of "normal". My oldest sibling is intersex and experienced this a lot growing up because she has been said to have both male and female traits, which caused a lot of mix-ups about her identity, something that made her somewhat of an outcast in peer situations because people of all genders/sexualities thought of her as not one of them due to falling into the cusp so-to-speak. My second-oldest is transgender and he came to terms with that when I was eight years old, partly inspired by the fact that people who remembered or knew my oldest sibling would remark how unlike himself he seemed, echoing a feeling he had around others, disconnecting him from a vital part of society. I am neither intersex or transgender but have been in a similar situation due to stereotypes about asexual women like myself, aspects of how I look and act, and false gossip spread by even your other repliers that many people for some reason see as male-centric. You get lumped into so many different things. Many people take the mindset to an extreme length and unevenly distribute benefit of the doubt depending on who we are. So in a sense, your question is almost like asking about the caste system.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

OK I'm a bit confused. Could you use fake names instead of they?