^ Why should any of us want to escape them? People are people, and we all deserve the same freedoms and rights. Who is it hurting if we change titles, names, or something that will be inclusive to all instead of omitting some? Imagine if you were part of a group not included in anything, and that there was never a place for you, imagine......
Adapting in a world where still too many marginalize because they feel the only way to exist is to be straight, married and monogamous, must be very hard and cause a lot of self doubt . I mention the two latter, because most who get their panties twisted about gays, transgenders, and others who are unlike their idea of the norm, are often of the thought process that only men and women were meant to be coupled and coupled for life. They're the "biblical types", and those types often puzzle me, because they preach their Christianity as being about love and kindness, yet they're always pushing away those unlike themselves and condemning them to their "hell".
