🐱 Can he say it? Canada’s Trudeau confuses internet with newest acronym for sexual minorities, 2SLGBTQQIA+

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Canadian PM Justin Trudeau sparked an online storm after he used an obscure acronym, 2SLGBTQQIA+, while commemorating missing and murdered members of ethnic and sexual minorities, prompting a collective head scratching.

“People across the country are lighting candles to honour Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA+ people who are missing or have been murdered,” Trudeau tweeted on Tuesday, urging an end to the “ongoing tragedy.”
People across the country are lighting candles to honour Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA+ people who are missing or have been murdered. We must continue to work together, raise awareness, and advocate to end this ongoing national tragedy. #SistersInSpiritpic.twitter.com/cUUmff1ZOd
— Justin Trudeau (@JustinTrudeau) October 5, 2021
The message, however, appeared to be lost on a sizeable portion of netizens who struggled to decipher the cumbersome and seldom-used acronym – which stands for: Two Spirit, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning, Intersex, and Asexual people, with a plus-sign added for good measure to cover any potentially overlooked groups.
“I honestly have no idea what 2SLGBTQQIA+ means,” one perplexed commenter tweeted, while another requested a translation: “I am asking unironically, what is 2SLGBTQQIA+?”
Many of those unfamiliar with modern wokespeak were in disbelief that such a convoluted acronym could be a real thing. One observer suggested that Trudeau might have accidentally dropped the nuclear codes for NORAD [The North American Aerospace Defense Command]. More mundane guesses included a wayward cat walking acrossthe Canadian PM’s keyboard at the wrong time, an inadvertent reveal of a Wi-Fi password, or a video game cheat code.”
Others questioned Trudeau’s own understanding of the term, challenging him to actually verbalize it publicly – a feat that might prove difficult for the Canadian leader, who mangled the much-shorter LGBTQ2+ acronym just last month.
“I will never apologize for standing up for LGDP, uh, LGT, LBT…,” Trudeau stammered before an aide helped him. The clip has since gone viral.
While it remains to be seen if Trudeau will attempt to utter the challenging tongue-twister in future comments, some celebrated what appeared to be the acronym’s official debut into public space. “The 2SLGBTQQIA+ movement grows stronger by the day. Just absorbing the power of the alphabet with no obstruction,” one user quipped.
 
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Isn't "Two-Spirit" some kind of new-age thing?
Yes AND No!

2 spirit for the longest time came up as a footnote in anthro 101 textbooks. In the chapters on shit like Cultures & Gender where you'd learn gender has always been basically a binary. There were always people who didn't quite fit, eunuchs (men who were allowed where no other men went), thai ladyboys, bacha bazi, that kind of shit.

There was one particular tribe of plains Indians that had a "2 spirit" category. Someone who had the spirit of a man and a woman simultaneously. Basically ragingly gay twinks who wore women's clothing. They'd be mostly excluded from society but had some role as some kind of healer or mystic or something.

Because the modern injun has had their culture absolutely ruined by wypipo, they grasp at whatever straws. Now every wagon burner says they're 2 spirit regardless whether or not their tribes even had that category to begin with.
 
Isn't "Two-Spirit" some kind of new-age thing?
It’s what Indians called homos, which is actually pretty interesting, they tolerated homosexuality and trans but only if you fully committed to the gender role of the gender. Basically, they decoupled sex from gender, but the gender roles were a very strict dichotomy, enforced by the community.
 
It’s what Indians called homos, which is actually pretty interesting, they tolerated homosexuality and trans but only if you fully committed to the gender role of the gender. Basically, they decoupled sex from gender, but the gender roles were a very strict dichotomy, enforced by the community.
In this context, two-spirit is something the trans lobby use to claim that troonism is an ancient and noble existence, and not something invented in the last 40 years. This is them officially moving troons to the front of the list, something anyone with sense has seen coming for some time. Soon the T proper will follow it to the front for "consistency", then 2S will later be removed to avoid cultural appropriation.

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In this context, two-spirit is something the trans lobby use to claim that troonism is an ancient and noble existence, and not something invented in the last 40 years. This is them officially moving troons to the front of the list, something anyone with sense has seen coming for some time. Soon the T proper will follow it to the front for "consistency", then 2S will later be removed to avoid cultural appropriation.

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Yes, the way two spirit is being used by perverts is a misappropriation of the historical concept. The main emphasis there is on the traditional gender roles, the Cherokee expected you to act like (their barbarian version of) a proper lady or a brave warrior, you didn’t have to be the right sex for it but you had to adopt the whole persona or none of it. Which is completely different from the modern laissez-faire attitude.

Two spirit in a traditional context was a way to reinforce the social structure. In a modern context it’s a way to tear at it.
 
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