LGBT rant

I hate to rant about this topic in public, but...I've never understood why the term has to have more letters added every time a new aspect of human sexuality is discovered. It is not necessary to revise the title of a banner or field to update the banner or field itself. "LGBT" (which btw is the official acronym) ought to be enough to convey an umbrella term for all forms of sexuality that deviate from the perceived norm, and it's quite irrational to feel "excluded" just because one's sexuality/identity isn't included explicitly in the acronym of an umbrella term where the whole point is that it's an umbrella term. If you claim to be of some novel sexuality of which a term has never been coined, it's understood that you fall under the LGBT banner. It's an umbrella term. It's why we use words like "automobile" or "car" instead of saying "sedan or hatchback or truck or van or SUV or semi or ...". If the list gets long enough (which it inevitably will), you could go on all day trying to mention every single type of X in existence. This approach is simply not healthy, and encourages an "us vs them" mentality. The go kart advocates versus the people who won't include "GK" in the SHTVSS acronym. They're being discriminated against. They're being persecuted by people who don't think go carts are "real" vehicles. Except nobody is arguing that. It's an illusion propagating an imaginary war.

I'm ace, but you don't see me insisting on adding an 'A' (or the first letters of the various sub-types of asexuality) to the term. It worries me that so many people are so insecure in their own sexuality that they feel the only way to validate their existence is to not only be a part of the LBGT "cool kids' club", but to forcefully and unnecessarily bend the term to include them explicitly, pressuring other people to follow suit, as if adding a 'Q' is some badge of honor or ultimate proof that they are, in fact, LBGT--sorry, LGBTQ--sorry, LGBTQISK+. I'm not defined by my asexuality. Like a non-LGBT person, I use LGBT as a word to describe a class of people (which just happens to include myself). The word does not need to change to accommodate its own definition. Unfortunately, it seems that in the fight for recognition, many non-binary, genderqueer et al. individuals don't feel the same way, as much as they claim the contrary. They are defined by it; consumed by it, to such an extent that they insist you write LGBTQI+ instead of LGBT or else you are being a bigot, and that it is now a running joke that people write LBGTQILMNOP, LBGTQ<rest of the alphabet>, etc. to poke fun at how a new letter gets added to the colloquial use seemingly every year. It's absurd, and the fact that people are making fun of it in specifically that manner--not in a transphobic manner, or any manner that could be construed as bigoted, but rather in a "when do the add-ons end?" manner, i.e. a statement--should be a hint to the fundamental flaw in this logic.

TL;DR - chill out with the crusade, it's just an acronym.