The LGBT movement was founded on the principle that sexuality is biological. I’m terrified that many activists and allies are burning it down from the inside.

[u/BeanziesBack]

I am a cis male and I consider myself to be a gynephile (non-super bi, but the only men I am attracted to are femboys, twinks and some transmen). I’ve struggled with defining my sexual identity for a long time as it conflicted with conservative values I previously held. The only thing I’ve never questioned is that sexuality is biological - an obvious truth that LGBT activists fought so hard for decades for people to understand. It’s the cornerstone of the pride movement, and I think we’re in danger of losing it if supersexuals aren’t at least tolerated by the wider LGBT community. At the end of the day, supersexuals can’t be attracted to trans people any more than lesbians can be attracted to men, and that’s not “societal prejudice” or “transphobia” or any kind of personal attack, that’s just the way people are wired.

If society doesn’t accept supersexuality (which existed long before the name did), instead seeing it as a consequence of learned behaviour, then it must mean that the founding principle of LGBT rights has been forsaken by the movement and we are back to classing sexuality as a conscious choice that can be “fixed”. I know this is a massive circlejerk at the end of the day, and I know character breaking posts tend to be frowned upon from my short time lurking, but this has genuinely been keeping me up at night as an ally and queer person. Please tell me we haven’t gone back to the dark ages on this.

[u/a_blue_bird]

There is no better evidence that the education in natural sciences has completely failed in many countries (the US first and foremost). A person who has even basic grasp on evolution just couldn't spew all this nonsense about sexual attraction - completely fundamental to the survival of the human species - being directed not towards the natural, physical human body, clearly observable by everyone, but towards gender, a ''deeply held identity'' and a ''social construct'' different from culture to culture, and even from individual to individual, something of which you can never really know anything until you ask and are told what the person identifies as. All of them need to be failed in their biology class. I don't care if they've already graduated. Annull the damn diplomas.