• lady_maria@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    I will never understand why any gay person would ever be transphobic.

    Like…??? You do understand that people have used many of the exact same arguments against trans rights as they’ve done to suppress gay rights too… right?

    • Stamets@lemmy.worldOPM
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      9 months ago

      Same way so many gay people are racist too or that you have so many classist or ableist gays. People just often don’t care about what doesn’t affect them. Hypocrisy is common as hell in humanity. We’re all guilty of it to some extent, usually though it’s very minor and in the background. But whether it’s big or small people often ignore their own hypocrisies. This shit is just blatant in the gay community. I think they do have the self-awareness of realizing the same arguments are used against them. They just don’t care.

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      9 months ago

      Transphobic gay men are sadly common. I think some of them think that getting rid of us will make it easier for them to be accepted.

      There’s a lot of gross and uncomfortable discourse about the way cis gay men treat trans gay men as well. My boyfriend and I were talking about some nasty shit that went down on Survivor…

    • Yrt@feddit.de
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      9 months ago

      Oh no, for some of them it’s totally different. Also there is a lot of homophobia inside the homosexual circles. Couldn’t believe it myself, but sometimes if you don’t look or act like the cliche or like common homosexual stuff like music or movies, you’re an imposter and not really gay. Saw it happen myself at a lesbian party. Two girls just looking female were bullied cause it’s “not lesbian” for a couple to be both female looking, that’s just two best friends being confused. “It’s just a phase” is a thing I heard quite a lot that evening. Never knew you signed up for a membership with rules and stuff when you’re “entering” the LG area. Just thought if you only like women as a woman you’re lesbian and same for men only liking men, but it seems that’s not the case.

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        9 months ago

        Yeah… ugh. I know there’s a lot of biphobia (and, as OP mentioned, racism/ableism/classism) in the community, too, which is equally fucking absurd. I guess being queer doesn’t necessarily mean you’re any less of an ignorant asshole.

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      9 months ago

      The same reason why women can be misogynistic. They think they’re one of the “good ones” and #notlikeothergays

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      9 months ago

      Bisexual bias from an ex boyfriend of mine. Believed I would leave him for a girl constantly.

      Same idea.

      Guy was tranphobic too because it finally gave him a chance to be a bully instead of the bullied.

      Fucking sociopaths