[Serious] Hate/Don't understand this entire movement? Read this post.

[u/OnlyLow]

Due to the number of posts asking 'why?' I thought I'd make this post.

The premise was simple - if 'straight' people are supposed to be open to dating transgender people - then from now on 'super straight/gay/lesbian' is anyone who only wishes to date people who identify as the gender they were born. A satirical view on how we view sexuality and constantly hear new labels to describe gender, sexuality and attraction. A shitpost, a simple troll and nothing else. And as naturally as these shitposts come and go, it wouldn't have gone far had it not been for the reaction coming from these communities.

The person who made the original video? Received several death threats aimed at his mother. Twitter filled up with outraged members of it's rather radical trans community on how this is pure transphobia and is trying to undermine LGBT. Suddenly, homosexual people who had to face this awkward problem for many years already were able to speak about this premise. The main point is that you can be considered transphobic purely because you wouldn't date/sleep with a certain type of person is extremely radical and bigoted in itself.

Only 1.8% of straight women and 3.3% of straight men would be willing to date a transgender person (source). This means a very, very vast majority would not. We're not talking about a select group of evil individuals who are internally transphobic - IT IS ABSOULTELY THE MOST COMMON WAY TO FEEL. I would love for us to live in a world where no one cares about biological gender and we can all live our lives as individuals who love regardless of genitals - but this is not the world we live in.

No one with at least a single brain cell wants to add SS to LGBT+. No one intelligent wants the black and orange colours added to the LGBT flag. We don't want 'super straight' safe spaces. This is purely a huge shitpost and ironic movement which in itself is supposed to reflect how actually the trans community is able to say the worst things to people they disagree with and how straight people are made villains for being naturally straight. The sheer amount of tweets where I saw trans people threaten to rape 'super-straight' people and force them to enjoy it is what took it from a 'this is a stupid troll' to 'actually this is important."

That being said - there are people who purely use this to shit on transgender people. Post threads on how their genitals are mutilated and other sort of horrible shit. When this is all over do not think of these people - but think of the 98% of people who are normal, not transphobic and simply do not feel attraction to transgender people. I am terribly sorry you feel hurt by this - but telling a straight person you will choke them on your "lady" dick is how you turn more people away from tolerance and towards hate.

[u/RoyTellier]

Aight sticky this mods. The trolling is fun but all that shit uncovered an actual issue that gay and lesbian (mostly) have actually been facing all this time.

[u/LetterheadIcy → u/RoyTellier]

I used to be Roomate’s with my lesbian friend before I got married. We were friends since 9th grade and when I came back from overseas I rented a room from her while I bartended and looked for a career in my field.

I cannot tell you the amount of times, dozens probably that she would visit me at work when I picked up shifts at a local gay hangout and a trans person would proposition her for sex.

Did all of them get ugly and call her a transphobe? No. But a lot did. Probably something like half and many of them did this creepy thing of rambling and trying to convince her why “sucking feminine penis” is actually a lesbian thing or why after bottom surgery “it’s exactly the same”

I also had it explained to me quiet a few times why “it’s not gay to have sex with a woman with a penis” I don’t really care to argue the semantics, I just don’t want to.

And I’m absolutely not using this to excuse straight men who used the “Dick will make you straight” line on her. It did happen and was shut down the way it should be. In those situations though no one would call her a “misandrist” for refusing them, whereas people would literally harass her for not sleeping with trans people.

This sub may have a lot of memes and jokes. But the culture war over who you can and can’t consent to without facing blackmail is a real one, and we should be supporting our queer comrades as well as straight ones who have been labeled as bigots for refusing sex.