Hi @petrichor @RiverSeal @Daisydreamer @Former-Member @Paperdaisy and anyone else posting in this thread.

Forgotten from the definition list was Pansexual (me) - a person who gets to know someone and falls in love with who they are, their mind and personality and then if the friendship is deep it may become intimate physically - regardless of gender id.  I have also been polyamorous at different times in my life.  I'm also the parent of a transgender non-binary person who is parenting beyond the binary also, allowing their children to make their own informed choices as to whether they want to be cis or sit somewhere else on our infinite spectrum (which I see as no longer linear, rather spherical and you can be anywhere on it, or fluid is an option too).

There are so many words these days to describe a person's identity, sexuality and more - I think it really empowers people when they find the language that works for them.

One of the times I experience joy in being part of the lgbqita2++ community is when my written works about this are published.  I like to debunk stigma however I can too.   Another is when I'm with my adult child, especially since they had the surgery that liberated them from dysphoria, and the joy of seeing young children not bound by gender id, but making their own choices as their language and identities develop.

Have a great mardi gras to those who celebrate it, and best wishes to those who don't too.  From a queer peer and ally.