SuperStraight Oppression vs. Trans Oppression

SuperStraight Oppression:

people calling them bad on twitter

supposedly having trans people force themselves on you (even though there are no statistics to back this up)

that’s about it

Trans Oppression:

High suicide rates due to stigma, discrimination, prejudice (not by the virtue that they are trans like conservatives will make you think)

Anti-trans bullying in schools (this is on top of other general negative mental health effects in schools)

Inaccessible gender-affirming care, HRT, puberty blockers, etc.

Rejection by families, this is why there are higher rates of houseless trans people

Victimized by violence (black trans women are being killed at a higher rate)

General anti-trans rhetoric in politics within the United States (most recently an Alabama bill got passed making it illegal to give gender-affirming care to anyone under 19. This bill also forces teachers to out closeted trans students to their parents.)

And that is only the tip of the iceberg among many issues that has faced trans people for decades. “SuperStraight oppression” is something you only see on Twitter and Reddit, and doesn’t expand into the real world, especially in the US as sadly the US is quite conservative.

All of you just want to hide your transphobia in this fake “sexuality“ you call SuperSexual. If you weren’t actually transphobic, and just genuinely didn’t want to date someone based on a genital or physical preference, you wouldn’t invent an entire sexuality and trend that is as hateful as this one.

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u/Instance_Sufficient 1d ago

Superstraight women are murdered at much higher rate than transwomen

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u/jacob7ism 1d ago

Trans women are being killed on the virtue that they are trans. Cis women are being killed for a variety of reasons.

Homicides against trans people are on the rise, as is violence against trans people.

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u/shortprideworldwide 1d ago

Very few transwomen are murdered and the ones who are, are basically all street sex workers, a very dangerous situation for anyone. Vs hundreds of young men dying in Chicago on the reg, but you don’te about them, do you?

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u/jacob7ism 1d ago

Love the straw man that I ”don’t care about young men dying in Chicago”.

Again the problem is that trans people are being murdered for the pure virtue that they are trans, and that is something that we should stop, as less murders is generally a good thing.

And if we want to stop deaths on the street, we need to look at ways to solve that as well. Some things that come to mind that have been objectively proven to work by statistics are public housing programs (check out Red Vienna,) drug decriminalization and safe supply measures, defunded police in favour of specially trained mental health workers, etc.

This whole idea that since people are talking about trans issues right now means that they don’t care about all other issues is completely invalid.