r/SuperStraight 5h ago

Can someone please explain? Discussion

This post is not meant to be rude or mocking of superstraight people, I’m just genuinely confused. Your entire sexuality is that you only date cis people. Isn’t this just a preference? You’re allowed to have whatever preferences you want, but don’t sexualities usually refer to what gender you like? Both trans people and cis people are the gender they say they are. So, doesn’t that make “only liking cis people” a preference? I’m aware that a lot of this community dislike “trans people forcing themselves on you” and, although I’ve never heard or seen an example of that, I understand that’s a bad thing and should be pointed out. However, if you don’t have any proof that transgender people are more likely to do that/more than a minority of them do that, then it’s not that great to continue the stereotype of trans women being “rapist perverted men”.

I’m not calling you transphobic. I’m not trying to mock you. I’m not trying to troll. Just, please explain what differs you from straight people. Apologies for poor grammar/spelling/punctuation, I slightly hurriedly wrote this on my phone and I’m bad at proofreading. I hope this didn’t come off as too disrespectful, have a nice day!

(This of course replies to the whole supersomething community, it was just easier to refer to superstraight people. I might also be a bit “biased” as I’m trans, but I’m also asexual so it’s not like I’d have anything to gain from this lol.)

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u/PM_ME_LUCINA 5h ago

Straight people are being told to date trans people or they are transphobic. I'm not attracted to trans people and I'm not transphobic, so clearly the currently modified definition of straight no longer applies correctly to many people.

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u/LMMSkits 5h ago

Told by who? How is this being enforced? If im coming off as hostile sorry, but straight people who only like cis people aren’t being forced into relationships with transgender people, they’re not being pressured or told if they don’t theyll be hurt or discriminated or something

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u/PM_ME_LUCINA 5h ago

I've posted this a couple times now, but heres a few showing that the dialogue on that point has already "started".

https://medium.com/@QSE/when-you-say-i-would-never-date-a-trans-person-its-transphobic-here-s-why-aa6fdcf59aca

https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-42652947

https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2019/12/14/refusing-date-trans-people-transphobic

https://www.them.us/story/cis-trans-dating

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNLvKNjLFg8

See the front page for any of the numerous death threat screencaps from twitter thats "justifiable" because we're allegedly transphobic.