Exclusionist voice: “But asexual heteroromantic people are basically str-..”
Me: “Listen, I have to deal with all you cisgender people all the fucking time. Which, trust me, is constantly making the LGBT community unsafe for me. So I don’t care what your latest take on asexual people is. They’re here to stay. Y’all can deal.”
You say LGBT like the T doesn’t mean us trans folks. You’re addressing only cis people. My transgender ass can be just as acephobic as cis queer people tyvm.
“My transgender ass can be just as acephobic as cis queer people”
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I ca-…
You wrote this.
Actually thinking it was a good idea to write.
I don’t even know where to begin.
I’m kind of tempted to go full on “I’m not even angry anymore, just disappointed” parent mode.
But I am angry.
After decades of transgender people get kicked out of LGBT spaces, you take pride in being a transgender acephobe.
Demanding that I recognize you for doing the same damn nasty thing they’ve been doing to us since the 1970s.
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I was expecting some aphobic shit on this post but I did not see this level of fucked up coming.
I don’t think the post was meant like that. It sounded like a tongue in cheek way to say “Hey, trans people are also part of the LGBT community and can be acephobic”. Since your original post seemed to only address cis people in the LGBT. That is what I took from it.
If that’s the case (which definitely wasn’t what I was getting from that post at all, but if they wanna explain themselves I’ll listen), they misunderstood my original point, which was that it is hypocritical of cis people to be constantly in a moral panic about ‘straight people’ (or anyone they decide is ‘basically straight’) in the LGBT community while I have to deal with their cis asses every day.
Which is part of a larger problem where cis-LGB people treat ‘straight’ as the opposite of LGBT and loudly complain about ‘straight people’ as if they aren’t in the room, in a way that would never be tolerated if trans people talked about ‘cis people’ that way in LGBT spaces. It makes perfect sense to only address cis people when pointing out that particular hypocrisy.
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