WATCH OUT, they're changing the LANGUAGE on us again!
#SOCIESC instead of LGBTQ+
From LGBTQIA+ to SOGIESC: Reframing sexuality, gender, and human rights
Article published on June 9, 2023:
https:'//'www.openglobalrights.org/lgbtqia-to-sogiesc-reframing-sexuality-gender-human-rights/
The proposed abbreviation is more accurate, more inclusive, and ultimately more universal.
The ever-expanding term LGBTQIA+ serves the worthy purpose of including a diverse array of categories and identities relating to sexuality and gender. But the term’s shifting, amorphous, and under-defined qualities make LGBTQIA+ ill-suited to the discourse and practice of international human rights law, which requires greater clarity, precision, and stability.
Fortunately, the alternative term SOGIESC (sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, and sex characteristics, often pronounced “soh-jee-esque”) has increasingly been adopted by human rights advocates. More than a mere shift from one awkward abbreviation to another, the use of SOGIESC promises a reframing of sexuality, gender, and human rights that is more accurate, more inclusive, and ultimately more universal—and therefore one that is a better tool for advancing human rights.
The roots of the term LGBTQIA+ can be found in efforts since the 1990s to move beyond use of the predominantly cismale term gay as a false generic, much as the word men (e.g., “all men are created equal”) is no longer acceptable as a way to refer to all people. Gay has most commonly been expanded to LGBT, but the logic of this expansion has continued to add more letters to refer to queer (Q), intersex (I), and asexual (A) categories, with the plus sign (+)signaling an openness to still other identities…..
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https:'//'ilga.org/downloads/SOGIESC_at_UPR_report.pdf
what other categories to they plan to SNEAK IN?
one for "paraphilia", for example?
Paraphilia - Wikipedia:
Paraphilia (previously known as sexual perversion and sexual deviation) is the experience of intense sexual arousal to atypical objects, situations, fantasies, behaviors, or individuals.