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Love and accept others.

Look, I'll accept others, but that's as much as I've got. What I can offer is indifference and disinterest unless they are being unjustly attacked.

I'm not interested in the details of your sexual orientation, but if someone starts shitting on you for it I'm there to back you up. You go by "they?" Cool, easier for me, everyone is technically they. You go by "she?" Sure, that's what it looked like. Somebody goes out of their way to use a gender pronoun that, confusingly, doesn't match what you look like? I'll point out that they're being dickish and silly. It's not because I love trans people or pansexuals or queer people (not picking them out, I don't "love" cis-het people either), it's because I think people shouldn't be shit on for who they are if they aren't harming others.

So basically, I don't want to have sexual orientation, genderidentity, or anything like that to be a constant topic of conversation, just like I don't have to constantly hear about people being cis or straight, and in that I share the words, at least, of many of the right-wing people I know. But the reason we still have to is because assholes want to attack them wherever they can. I long for the day when I can stop giving a shit because they are so accepted it's not an issue.