My Dear Lady Disdain

darkest-alchemy:

I try not to get too into ‘serious issues’ on here much because I’m sorry but I just don’t have the energy (physically; mentally; emotionally; whatever else) for that, really ever, and also this is mostly my private/fandom blog which I use largely for distraction from my own problems, thus I don’t want to be exacerbating some of those by trying to address all the crap in the world.

But this whole thing about legalising same-sex marriages just keeps bugging the hell out of me. If you want to marry someone and everyone’s fully consenting, I think you should be allowed to do so. That’s not what’s bugging me.

What’s bugging me is when this gets referred to as only being about “gay marriage” and more so when people say this is about GLBT (and maybe more letters but those are the basics) rights, but then people entirely ignore the T part, despite the fact that there are heterosexual couples even who can’t marry because legally they are seen as the same sex/gender. OK, if you don’t give a shit about the trans* folk, all right. I don’t like that but I accept that some people don’t care or don’t like trans* people, or there are people who just cannot possibly accept that transgender people are for real or that non-binaries exist, or whatever. But when you’re specifically referring to “GLBT” people and then you just totally ignore/erase the T part of that by every time referring only to same-sex marriages as “gay” marriages… yeah… that’s not right. Just don’t even bring up the T part of it if you’re not going to even acknowledge those people and the fact that this is an issue that can and does affect trans* people as well as gay people.

(via gematriya)