Do you think that becoming a member of LGBTQ+ is becoming a trend? (read description)

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**I am sorry if anyone gets offended by this, it is not my intentions* 
I am bisexual, and I've only told close friends (not my parents, buttercup l because of how they are). But anyway, my mom has an absurd idea that being a LGBTQ+ member is beginning a trend. She claims this because "everywhere you turn, someone is claiming to be gay." (this is why I won't tell them about it, besides the fact that they think it's a sin lol). I have told her that it shouldn't matter because love is love and we that we shouldn't shame them for it. 
What are your opinions on this?

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Honestly yes, I think it's so popular that young kids in middle school who are having normal confusing hormones are turning to saying they are gay or trans just because that's the only way they know how to get their feelings out or to get noticed. NO I don't have anything against it, I just think not every single teen that says they are gay or trans actually are. I think most are very confused.

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i think there’s genuine people in the community who are amazing but there’s definitely a lot who put on this lol i’m a cute lil gay act for the aesthetic

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seems like it tbh. love isn't just love, what about love with animals. love with cars. love with staplers. that's just unnatural. u asked my opinion and that's what it is!

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I don’t think it’s becoming a trend I think it’s more acceptable to be openly LGBTQ+ than ever before so therefore there is a bigger community of people.

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Honestly it’s always straight people who think they know better how being queer works than queer people. Kids can’t possibly know their sexuality... unless it’s straight. Kids do it for attention... they get bullied and get called fag all the time. Honestly somehow homophobic people think kids do it to fit in but then don’t realize they don’t fit in because of homophobes, teens get bullied soooo much. 41% of trans people have made a suicide attempt. A lot of queer kids are suicidal. Y’all need to shut the fuck up and stop pretending that you a straight person know more about how these kids feel then these kids themselves.

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People mostly think this because more and more people are becoming part of LGBTQ+ but that’s not because it’s a trend, it’s because people are more excepting and it’s easier to be queer nowadays. Queer people are able to publicly be queer and thatswhy people are coming out, its finally safe for them to be out.

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Personally, I’ve seen a few people who claimed they were Bi in middle school be COMPLETELY straight now in high school. Idk if that is the case in other places, but I do think young kids are beginning to see it as a way of attention🤷🏼‍♀️

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Yikes, no. I don’t understand why people have to scorn and put other people down for using the tools available to them to identify, grow, and shape their own experience as a person. Let people use whatever words and experiences they want to describe themselves, and if it changes later, then it changes. I have several friends who were “straight” until they realized they weren’t, and that doesn’t make them a “poser” or that they were “faking” being straight or “participating in a straightness trend”. No one would say that, but suddenly if a young person thinks they might be bi, gay, or trans, they’re “faking” or “playing into a trend”? No. Stop. Be nice to people. Let them figure their own stuff out however it makes sense to them. It’s all just about exploring one’s own identity, and it’s none of most people’s damn business anyway.

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personally I'm 16 and asexual and I've had a lot of people tell me I'm to young to know....but if I'm old enough to date guys how am I not old enough to know if I want sex or not or if I'm bi or not?

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I feel like it is becoming a trend and there’s all these other new made up sexualities coming out and it doesn’t make any sense tbh

Do you think that becoming a member of LGBTQ+ is becoming a trend? (read description)

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