Technically, an acronym is a word that is made up from the first letters of a collection of words, e.g., laser or scuba. 

All the current references for the collection of sexually differently-oriented persons is a non-pronounceable assemblage of letters. 

There was (and likely still is) the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation... GLAAD. It happens that the acronym suits a very good word for its purpose. 

I can't say this is a major contributor either way, but a real acronym might not engender that little extra aggravation that the "goddamned alphabet soup from hell!" raises.

Just a point of grammar. Please continue you regularly scheduled discussion... glaadly.

TERF...Trans-Exclsusionary,Radical Feminist, I am not
making this up.

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There are reasons for this. I don't want to take this thread off on a massive tangent, but the transgender narrative is fundamentally incompatible with feminist theory as it currently exists.  These feminists are reacting to what they see as an attack, as popular acceptance of the transgender narrative threatens their ability to reach their goals in a democracy. 

One is about sexual preference and the other is about self perception.

Should these be connected?

Gay/lesbian/bi etc are all about the type of person you like

Trans/gender fluid etc are about the type of person you see yourself as.

I'm not so sure these need to be lumped together. If the argument is that they are lumped together because they are discriminated against, then that list gets an awful lot longer.

Gay/lesbian/bi etc are all about the type of person you like

Trans/gender fluid etc are about the type of person you see yourself as.

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They are very distinctive things but there's overlap. Completely divide them into two different "movements" and some people will have to go to more than one center. (The Gay Center in Manhattan became the Gay and Lesbian Center, then the LGB Center, then the LGBT Center...you get the idea.) They won't like that. 

My "shorthand" is to write "LGBT+" and leave it at that. (I do think that the intersexed have a legitimate beef -- one that starts virtually at birth! -- but yes, the more letters the more that people who don't fall under the umbrella wave it all away as annoying, at the very least.)