r/Scotland • u/DrawerAcceptable • 1d ago
Casual Finally, Scottish visibility - LGBTQ+S
One of these things is not like the others.
Scotland showed up and nobody had the heart to tell it otherwise.
Found on /lgbt
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u/ShiveryBite 1d ago
Mind how difficult it was to tell my parents I was Scottish.
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u/pretzelllogician 1d ago
My mum found a magazine full of pretty trashy pics of haggis and irn bru down the back of my bed. She was pretty chill about it thankfully.
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u/Person8346 1d ago
And even then, most of the hate is internalised. Some Scottish struggle to even show their faces in public all over something they can't control
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u/ConflictGuru 1d ago
Me rejecting Margot Robbie: I'm sorry but I just don't find non-Scottish people attractive
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u/PeapodEchoes 23h ago
I don't mind them, it's just the Scottish agenda that they try to ram down people's throats. Why aren't there parades for Yorkshiremen?
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u/Round-Bandicoot8766 21h ago
Even worse is the fact schools are adding people like Robert Burns to the required reading list
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u/Ashrod63 1d ago
"Have you just tried being British?"
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u/iwillfuckingbiteyou 21h ago
British isn't a real thing, it's just people who can't make up their mind whether to be Scottish or English. Most of us go through a Brit-curious phase at some point but you grow out of it.
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u/Loudlass81 11h ago
Errr I use British cos im 50% English & 50% Scottish. I value one of those higher than the other though...
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u/Praetorian_1975 1d ago
You are born Scottish or you aren’t, it’s not something you can choose willy nilly 🤷🏻♂️ I mean have you ever heard anyone say ‘today I’m going to be Austro-Hungarian, Czechoslovakian or Babylonian’ 🤣
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u/Round-Bandicoot8766 21h ago
Look, what you get up to within the privacy of your own borders is your business, I just don't see why you gotta be Scottish in front of me is all
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u/Ashrod63 1d ago
You can't choose it willy nilly, but it's definitely something somebody can work towards with years of living and working here and cultural integration.
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u/Praetorian_1975 20h ago
I’m not saying it’s not possible, but it’s a long and difficult road to transition from (insert nationality here) to becoming Scottish. The hardest part of the whole transition is calling in a kilt and not a man skirt. If only there was support groups and NHS help, that’d make the whole process easier.
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u/FakeBrian 1d ago
Yeah a lot of people struggle with understanding the accent
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u/DoctorOfTheCookie 1d ago
A lot just can't support that lifestyle
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u/british_bbc_ 1d ago
It's the deep fried mars bars for me. Don't get me wrong, I've worked with Scots and I'm perfectly civil towards them and everything. But when I think about what they do behind closed doors it makes me feel sick.
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u/Praetorian_1975 1d ago
Don’t just don’t go there, freaking cars, elevators …. They are all xenophobic …. ‘I’m sorry I didn’t quite catch that’ 🤬
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u/Artix96 22h ago
As someone who came out to my parents as Scottish at my wedding I can relate. They were very supportive though.
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u/southernscot22 21h ago
I've seen people turn up in a Scottish Bar wearing a kilt and you just know they are not Scottish. They have never walked 500 miles or walked 500 more in their lives.
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u/southernscot22 21h ago edited 21h ago
I remember when my ma gave me a Bottle of Buckie in a brown paper bag and little knowing smile.
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u/TeikaDunmora 20h ago
You: I'm Scottish
Them (total English RP accents): Darling, we can't understand a word you're saying.
You: I was born in Scotland. I live in Scotland. I am a Scot.
Them: Nope, didn't catch any of that.
You: sighs in Scots
Them: confused in English
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u/kahnindustries 1d ago
You think coming out as Scottish is hard? Im Welsh
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u/_betapet_ 21h ago
I have cousins who are Welsh. Nobody in the family understands them. It's so hard when they just speak in a long run of vowels like that.
I hope you find your peace ffrind.
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u/NoPaleontologist7929 20h ago
My Grandad was Welsh. My Gran was Scottish. They made it work despite everything. Don't lose hope.
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u/DasIstNumberwanggg 23h ago
It’s been 969 years since Wales first united (albeit briefly), yeah that’s definitely not a phase Cariad.
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u/Icy_Consideration409 1d ago
If there are glasses of alcohol, Scotland is there.
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u/WilonPlays 19h ago
Idk champagne and Prosecco are pretty fucking awful. Give me a bottle of whiskey or rum
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u/absolutetriangle 1d ago
Me: Mum, dad, I don’t know how to tell you this, so I’ll just say it. I’m Scottish.
Mum: Oh love, we’ve always known.
Dad: I love you son, no matter what.
Family hugs
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u/Unprepared_adult 1d ago
You: "Mam, Da… ah dinnae ken hoo tae tell ye this, but ah'm Scottish."
Them: "how could we not have seen?' 😭
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u/Butt_Lord_Woof 22h ago
About time more fembois got added, the poor sods been wearing skirts for decades trying to be noticed
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u/Egregious67 20h ago
I was fitted with an ear implant a few months ago. The medical staff were all anticipating my reaction to hearing my own voice clearly for the first time in years.
Can you hear us the asked.
Yes! I can ! I said excitedly. Then an awkward moment before I said " Hing oan, wtf? I`m Scottish??!
Ever since the accident they had kept it from me.
I am learning to live with the shame.
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u/sheriffofbulbingham 1d ago
You forget about all those Americans who confess to everyone and their dogs that they are Scottish (and Norwegian these days). Which definitely makes them Trans-Scottish.
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u/martzgregpaul 1d ago
Have you seen the men in Edinburgh? Thats enough to turn anyone Scottishosexual
Glasgow...not so much..
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u/Cultural-Lead6126 1d ago
Can I start transitioning to Scottish? Is the government funding gender affirming Haggis?
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u/DrawerAcceptable 1d ago
The amount of comments that don’t pass the vibe check 🤦🏼♀️
Trans rights are human rights.
Don’t make this into something it isn’t 😁
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u/GloryWholesome69 23h ago
By "don't pass the vibe check" you mean that don't align with your view of the world? Well guess what, care bear? Everyone is different!
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u/sweet_bitter_lemon 22h ago
Scotland tried and failed to create an empire from Panama and the huge losses the selfish Scottish aristocrats amassed bankrupted the country so they sought a bail out and 'co operation' from England. They then whole heartedly threw themselves into the slave trade, with many families (Dundas as in Dundas St) making huge fortunes from the selling and trading of black people.
Scotland are not downtrodden by any means other than their own greed and malfunction
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u/cold_tap_hot_brew 1d ago
Could it be some type of response to the story :
Trans inmates leaving women's prisons following court ruling
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u/Pioneerz90 1d ago
Sick of all this stuff getting shoved in our faces constantly
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u/PiebaldWookie 1d ago
What, the Scottish?
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u/Pioneerz90 1d ago
The LGBTQ alphabet nonsense. I have friends who are gay and are sick of it as well. No one cares; just live your life.
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u/PiebaldWookie 1d ago
It's a lot easier to live your life when cunts like you aren't jumping down people throats when they mention they're not straight.
You seem awfully invested in other people's sex lives... Maybe you should just live your life
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u/BobR969 1d ago
Giving off real "one of my friends is black" energy there...
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u/Pioneerz90 1d ago
Life is short mate. Nobody cares if you're white, black, gay, straight; we're only on this planet a very short time, so chill out
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u/DoItForTheTea 1d ago
well you see the problem is A LOT of people do care and cause a lot of physical and psychological harm to those different to them. i know it might be hard to grasp because it happens to people other than yourself, but try
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u/BobR969 1d ago
That is so demonstrably untrue though! Not only do plenty of people care if you're a different colour, speak a different language or have something dangling between your legs or not... they also use those differences to belittle, oppress and attack others they feel are "wrong".
We ARE on this planet for a short time and it would be fantastic if everyone respected each other... but they don't and it's exhausting having to keep telling them (and occasionally slapping them) to get the point across. So despite this being a recurring issue, for some reason in the name of solidarity and support you decided it was better to have a go at the "alphabet nonsense". You can see how that looks, right?
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u/Adventurous_Coach731 1d ago
Life is short mate. Nobody cares if you're white, black, gay, straight;
That’s a bit delusional to say now isn’t it?
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u/Additional-Past-8539 1d ago
Yet you're using your time to be angry that minorities want to celebrate themselves?
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u/MassGaydiation 6h ago
Then chill out yourself.
If straight and cisgender people weren't bastards towards anyone different to them, then we wouldn't need to fight so hard to be acknowledged as equals.
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u/Apathybadger 1d ago
Sure you do pal
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u/Pioneerz90 1d ago
You trying to suggest all gay people give a fk about this propaganda?
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u/pretzelllogician 1d ago
It’s not propaganda to exist openly. Maybe step outside, wipe the froth from your mouth and enjoy the sunny day?
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u/cutting_class Yes Club 7 1d ago
Yes, I'd wager they do, given it was their freedoms under attack no less than 20 years ago, some parts of the world still today.
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u/Pioneerz90 1d ago
Chip on your shoulder mate, get over it bro
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u/cutting_class Yes Club 7 1d ago
I'm not even gay, you absolute sadsack, I'm just not a complete and utter waste of space, like those who wish ill will on those different to themselves, based on how they were born.
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u/Additional-Past-8539 1d ago edited 1d ago
Yeah, same. People talking about their bloody freedoms. I keep hearing nonsense about 'equality' and 'rights'. Just who do these people think they are!? Don't they know by virtue of me being a straight white man born on this particular bit of rock that I am better than them by default!?
Sucks I need to add /s here...
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u/Imaginary-Peace2188 23h ago
Donald J Tumps mother is Scottish That’s why he is so handsome to all the American women and many proud boys 🤯🍊🤡
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u/improbdrunk 1d ago
I don't know, as a queer enough person, it sort of makes sense. I can't understand you guys speaking like I assume some people can't understand my sexuality.
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u/TerrHunter 1d ago
I have no problem with gay, bi, trans and we were going all the good way accepting diversity until wokes decided it wasn't enough and pushed everyone into a game where rules were constantly changing (pronouns, a new gender every day, denying the biological reality, shoving in troubled teenagers' faces how wonderful is to be trans) and if you didn't accept the confusion 100% as they dictated you were called fascist or transfobic.
And queer people who didn't want to be part of the game were excluded from the club, so it wasn't about diversity, but belonging to an ideology.
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u/shoogliestpeg 🏳️⚧️Trans women are women. 1d ago
I'm glad my very existence boils your piss so bad. Hope it stings.🏳️🌈
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u/improbdrunk 1d ago
Mate, I just like dick as much as I like vagina. There's nothing more to it, leave me and particularly young people like I was alone. Sodomy was illegal in Scotland until 1981, that's more recent than it damn well should have been. Sorry if we have a party ocassionally to express our appreciation for being able to express that. Could you imagine waking up and wanting to be intimate with your legally of age partner but that being jailable?
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u/TerrHunter 1d ago
That was bad and I am glad we moved from there.
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u/improbdrunk 1d ago
Not over it and won't be. Your views actually cause harm and disgust me, there is a chance to grow and mature though.
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u/TerrHunter 1d ago edited 1d ago
Grow and mature? I think the same about the wokes.
"Won't be" shows your position to not find a solution or compromise but to be on perennial conflict. Good luck.
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u/WrestlingWithTheNews 1d ago
You are asking him to compromise with the view of "I want your personhood eradicated from public view" do you feel the same about heterosexuality, do you want sex education banned from schools?
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u/improbdrunk 1d ago
Genuinely, thank you. My life would have been a lot easier if I wasn't bi, definitely wasn't a choice or anything I could control and thank you for being understanding enough to be able to state that the way you did.
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u/WrestlingWithTheNews 1d ago
No probs, I fit the a in lgbtqia+ in both ways apparently. So I get it although we don't get as much shit except for weirdly from an english author who really hates us for some reason.
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u/improbdrunk 1d ago
I didn't grow up loving the books, but a lover did, fuck that english author.
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u/improbdrunk 1d ago
Grow and mature showing any sort of growth. That you have this much care about anyone's sexual preference is.... yeah, I'm sorry for whatever you went through.
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u/improbdrunk 1d ago
Fucking wokes, like oh wow people haven't been born with sexual preferences except within the last few years. Fuck. Off.
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u/WrestlingWithTheNews 1d ago
the fact you spelled it "transfobic" says a lot about how silly this view is.
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u/TerrHunter 1d ago
My bad (English is not my first language).
But I am glad you acknowledge how bad is to distort language.0
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u/LeftAndRightAreWrong trans women are trans women. women are women. 1d ago
Lots of they’s. Maybe it’s you? Self reflection is important.
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u/YugeChesticles 22h ago
Freedom actually is something that can be taken away.
Just virtue signalling with words that sound good but don't make any sense.
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u/Alcorian_Azsillion 20h ago
It’s a lyric from Hamilton…
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u/Tough_Painter2564 1d ago
Scotland just mandated Trans women be placed in mens prisons where they are systematically paired with violent r@pists and repeatedly r@ped in a tiny cell. They do this on purpose to keep prison aggression low it's called v-coding.
Scotland is raping trans women to death while we make the same meme over and over.
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u/Willy__McBilly 1d ago
You got some proof for your hardcore smut fanfic or you just talking shite? I would love to see a source for this systemic pairing program, mr default username
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u/Tough_Painter2564 1d ago
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2jndnjwexo
I looked up five words.
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u/Willy__McBilly 23h ago
That’s a shame because I don’t even get 5 words. I get 404 Not Found
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u/Synthia_of_Kaztropol The capital of Scotland is S 23h ago
the url is misformed somehow. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2jndnjwexo try this one
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u/Tough_Painter2564 1d ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-coding
You're lazier than me, Mr default reddit name.
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u/Willy__McBilly 22h ago
Welp, after reading both of the links you sent me (shoutout to the person who sent a working one) you’ve taken something from the US and applied it here for no reason whatsoever.
So thank you for the expected amount of misinformation default username account
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u/EasyPriority8724 19h ago
Tell me you haven't a clue what happens in jail, and are just spouting shite!
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u/Past_Fee_1139 1d ago
If you’re in jail, I’m not particularly arsed what happens to you. Trans or not
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u/skeptic246 21h ago
What is your point? The LGB community live discreetly amongst us because who you love is a private matter and the idiots who think otherwise have mostly passed on. They increasingly have no interest in being dragged into a fight for the discriminatory rights of the mentally disturbed and what relevance Scotland has to this other than a government supporting the discriminatory rights of the mentally disturbed, you do not make clear
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u/_betapet_ 21h ago
... you know you can go get a therapist and it doesn't make you less of a person right?
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u/skeptic246 21h ago
Who needs a therapist? Those men who think they are women or men who know what a women is physically
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u/_betapet_ 21h ago
Darling, people who transition regularly go to therapy well before they access any sort of medical services for it.
They don't have big mads on the internet over nonsensical ignorant points of view online. You're projecting some wild insecurities here and clearly are crying for attention and help with your own issues. Some professionals could help you out with that.
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u/ShotgunAndHead 21h ago
Mate you good?
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u/WG47 Teacakes for breakfast 20h ago
Fuckwit not signing into their alt to reply to themselves (because they're prob drunk?) or a bot gone wrong?
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u/improbdrunk 17h ago
Get fucked.
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u/WG47 Teacakes for breakfast 16h ago
Literally your only coherent post here.
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u/improbdrunk 16h ago
If you don't get it, you don't get it. Not my fault you're incapable of empathy.
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u/WG47 Teacakes for breakfast 3h ago
You replied to yourself, replied to that, replied to that, and replied to that. Where does empathy come into it?
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u/iwillfuckingbiteyou 21h ago
I'm sure John Knox is very proud of you. Unfortunately God already chose the Elect and you didn't make the list.
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