I may get a lot of flack for this!

I am used to getting flack. I been here since 2013 except it was EP then. The people who tried to shoot me out of the sky have long gone and I am still here.
About me first. I am Blodyn. I am a girl. I do not have a boyfriend but would love to have one. I think that means I am straight.
I have friends who are gay. They are friends. Please do not read any thing into that. Friends I speak to lots. Friends I would do anything for and they would for me. Friends.
With me so far? Well there are three types of men who contact me here in SW. Men who want to know what knickers I am wearing. Mostly middle aged. May already have a wife or partner.
Secondly, younger men who know to just be friends. And many older men are like that. Maybe happy with their partners.
Thirdly gay men. My best friend on this site is gay. We have talked for years. Not one hint of sexual attraction. We chatter away as friends. He is my oldest friend. But he feels unwelcome on this site. I don't know what makes people gay but I am prepared to accept that there is a gender spectrum and that not everyone fits neatly into the slots of being girl or boy.
It seems to me that many people just reject people for being lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender because they are different. Not because they have thought about why this may be. And why are transgender people listed with LGB anyway. What's it got to do with it.
Before I wax too lyrical, just accept people for who they are. Please. If you can't, please do a bit of research before you reject people for their gender, their colour, their age or for any other way they are different to you.

SW-User

Transgender people are under the LGBTQIA+ because of the fact that they face a lot of the same problems that the LGB folks do. Oppression from those around them, ridicule by "friends" and "family", risk of job loss... It's a whole pile of nonsense that they have to go through, plus transitioning.
While you aren't directly a member of the LGBTQIA+, at least you're an ally. That alone is enough to garner respect.

Blodyn · 22-25, F

@SW-User Thank you. It just makes me so sad. Many boys transgender to girls because they were sexually abused by men and can't be that gender. As far as I am concerned they are welcome to be female. But not just say "I identify as female." To really be female.
None of us know the reasons why people are as they are so let's accept them.
Why do people reject anyone who is different. Why cannot they see that we are very much the same. And chat on sw about our differences over a cup of coffee?