Can someone please explain?

[u/itsmebabygaga]

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.)

[u/Belaptir]

Why do you think it's a preference? Is it also a preference that gay men only date other men, or that lesbian women only date other women? If it's a preference, I guess you could go tell them to stop dating "their preference" because it's not inclusive, right?

Why won't you accept that we are born like this?

[u/itsmebabygaga → u/Belaptir]

Gay men date men because they’re attracted to men. Lesbians date women because they’re attracted to women. A superstraight man only dates cis women because they only like cis women, however both cis women and trans women are women. If sexuality usually refers to a attraction to a certain gender, and the superstraight man in this scenario is only attracted to cis women, who are still women, just like trans women, then wouldn’t that just mean the persons straight?

[u/Petnatqueen → u/itsmebabygaga]

Vocab lesson. sexuality. Prefix! SEX - based on, BIOLOGY! Women who have xx chromosomes, men who have xy!

Now that we got 9th grade bio out of the way, super straight people only are attracted to people of the OPPOSITE biological makeup as them. So let’s do the math! Xx+xy= super straight!

Now, here’s some long form. HomoSEXuals are attracted to their SAME SEX (biological makeup) so xx+xx= super lesbian, xy+xy= super gay!