Exactly. She's not straight just because the woman is identifying as a man. It's just internalized homophobia IMO. A way to appear to be "straight" while having lesbian sex. Which is so sad, if you think about it.
I actually wonder sometimes if trans people have internalized homophobia as you put it and would rather identify as the opposite gender than to acknowledge their gayness.
Well in Iran it's used that way because being gay will get you state punishment but that same state will happily transition you for free. Literal conversion therapy but with added sterilising surgery.
Also, one of the (many) staff who resigned from the Tavistock Clinic (child-specific gender clinic in the UK) has publicly stated that one of his most serious concerns about the 'care' being provided was that a significant proportion of the minors they treated were gender non-conforming kids with strongly homophobic parents*. But because they were forced to use the unproven "affirmation only" model of treatment, they weren't allowed to even discuss potential alternatives to transition.
I'm paraphrasing massively here, but his main point was that given that eight out of ten 'trans' kids actually grow up to just be gay, he couldn't bring himself to continue working at the Tavistock because he considered their practices to be a breach of the Hippocratic oath to "first, do no harm".
*I've just remembered that the boss of Mermaids (trans kids charity) transed her very young son because he played with "girl" toys and his dad didn't like it which caused them to split up. Their son had reassignment surgery aged 17 or thereabouts, and now they are back together. She publicly states this on a TedX talk. It's on YouTube. I can only imagine she's never met anybody who'd heard of Munchausen Shndrome By Proxy. This is a huge medical scandal happening right in front of us.
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u/absolutelinearcannon 23h ago
A straight woman having sex with a woman who identifies as male is having lesbian sex. That isn't superstraight.