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I could ask the same of your statement

Maybe it's my bubble, but everywhere you look nowadays the term is used ostensibly, even if not consistently, and almost nobody really has any qualms with it? For example: Vancouver's Pride (https://www.vancouverpride.ca), Calgary's Pride (https://calgarypride.ca/pride-2023/) and so on.

but the general sentiment was the same whenever that argument came up

Strangely I remember it differently.

How is the average person, the person you’re trying to convince to accept the movement, going to remember all that?

The shorter acronyms still exist, they're not banned. If the layperson doesn't remember all of them, it's alright.

How are you supposed to form a cultural identity if you keep rebranding over and over to the point where you have to be deeply immersed to understand the nomenclature?

That "over and over" happened a few times in 35 years, and so far it seems the cultural identity is still going strong. So no issue there so far.

but hopefully you can see where I’m coming from

It's not that I don't get it, it's not unreasonable that you're bothered by a hard acronym getting harder.

Saying that it's ridiculous or that it lessens the movement is a stronger statement though, one that the movement doesn't seem to agree with. It's not the government that is coming up with this, they're just listening to activism.