Is it offensive to call queer people ‘queers’

[KoopaDaQuick 🇵🇸]

As a transhet person, I find it important for a word like "queer" to exist. Not all LGBT people are gay, or even a sexual/romantic minority, and "LGBT" (and its variants) are a mouthful in spoken conversation, so "queer" is a great umbrella.

[KoopaDaQuick 🇵🇸]

I'm gay and I'm sick beyond belief of wokes trying to force the "queer" label on me. I am very up front to people who insist on calling me "queer" that if they do it again they will get punched in the face.

Cool. Don't pretend that you are able to speak on behalf of the entire community. The word "queer" has changed its meaning over the past couple of decades, don't get your diaper wet over other queer people having a different theory on that word and its usage in our community than you.

[KoopaDaQuick 🇵🇸]

As a transhet person, I find it important for a word like "queer" to exist. Not all LGBT people are gay, or even a sexual/romantic minority, and "LGBT" (and its variants) are a mouthful in spoken conversation, so "queer" is a great umbrella.

What does queer mean then?

"Queer" can refer to anybody who is not both cisgender and heterosexual.

[KoopaDaQuick 🇵🇸]

As a transhet person, I find it important for a word like "queer" to exist. Not all LGBT people are gay, or even a sexual/romantic minority, and "LGBT" (and its variants) are a mouthful in spoken conversation, so "queer" is a great umbrella.

Isn't that the literal definition of the LGBTQ+ community?

There are straight trans people.

That is a sexual minority.

Nope, heterosexuals are not a sexual minority. They're a gender minority. What makes a straight trans person queer has nothing to do with their sexuality, as being heterosexual isn't queer. Being transgender is queer, so that's what makes the straight trans person in question queer.

The definition of being queer or LGBTQ+, at least as far as I and most other people believe, is being anything that isn't heterosexual and cisgender. A cis lesbian and a straight trans dude would both fit the bill for being queer, even though the first person is cisgender and the second person is straight.