text: If said in a statement along these lines: "I'm not gay, but I support gay rights." is it still hurtful? I think I've written along the lines of that before and thought of it as an equivalent of "I'm not a woman, but I support women's rights." Now I'm not even sure if that's harmful. I've meant it as "Even though I'm not part of this group, the need of improvement for them is so obvious that even I can see it".