The Straight Trans Activist: The Modern Homophobe.

The social media variety of gay bashing.

The late, great Phil Ochs has a song. It’s called ‘Love Me, I’m A Liberal.’ He introduced it as such:

In every American community there are varying shades of political opinion. One of the shadiest of these is the liberals. An outspoken group on many subjects, ten degrees to the left of center in good times, ten degrees to the right of center if it affects them personally. Here, then, is a lesson in safe logic.

As true today, as when it was written.

I’ve found that song has certainly aged well. It certainly works for one pernicious form of trans activist that I hardly see mentioned. Maybe ‘mentioned’ is a bad term. I am going to seek to describe and codify this modern homophobe. Ten degrees on the side of supporting trans activism in good times, ten degrees to the TERF level of Julie Bindel when it affects them personally. Or, ‘TRA in the streets, TERF in the sheets.’

I am talking about the straight trans activist. They range from the blue-haired non-binary yet somehow very female Kais and Aidens who post on social media how gay they are, maybe even having invaded a few LGBT spaces and organizations to focus on themselves, but at the end of the day go home and fuck their bepenised boyfriend missionary style in the dark. The bearded straight guys who post endlessly about ‘trans women are women’ but admit they wouldn’t sleep with one because they want ‘biological children’. The left-wing party delegates who nod along, the allies who advocate endlessly for trans issues, but don’t care to hear any opposition.

At the end of the day, for most straight people, if not the vast majority, the trans issue is more or less completely academic. For the trans activist, their lives are more or less fundamentally unchanged for their support - they will never see the consequences of their actions. For lesbians and gays, it’s another matter altogether. What are you to do when you are a minority, and the majority start claiming to be you and infiltrate your spaces and groups? You simply get forced out. You don’t have the numbers to fight back. It is easy for a straight man to be ‘totally chill with sleeping with trans women’ when they know that compared to the number of straight women, trans women are a small minority - and trans women sexually interested in other males are an even smaller minority. It is very different for the lesbian - a minority invaded by a majority doesn’t have that option - a straight man will never have to doomswipe through endless dick trying to find women. Nor will they be expected to simply put up with being banned from every major platform when they have objections to the endless dick doomswipe when they are not interested in dick. It just isn’t going to happen.

When you are the majority, you are relatively immune to the complete destruction of your community by said majority, no?

Most of the consequences for these people are fundamentally academic. Not only will they never be forced to scroll through dick when they’re on a quest for vagina, they’ll never watch a beloved partner say that because she loves you, and you love her, she must really be a man - and you’re expected to support that unquestionably, never complaining, as her desire to self-harm and heterosexualize the both of you is celebrated. They will never have to watch a blue haired straight woman on TV speak for them. For them, the gay bar is a tourist attraction, a freak zoo, a place to gawk at drag queens, rather than a lifeline or the former place to safely to find a fuck (very few gay bars are really ‘gay’ anymore, having devolved into drag queen theme park rides for straight people). They will never turn up to an event that’s supposedly for people like them to find that it is actually full of people appropriating their very identity and telling them that the mere fact they had to appropriate it means they are more oppressed and you should prioritize them. It costs them nothing, but it costs lesbians and gays everything.

Take, for example, the average ‘liberal feminist’ these days. She might hold a position on a student union as a women’s rep, or work at a female-focused NGO. Ultimately, her work prioritizes other straight women, with lesbians as a neglected afterthought at best, but she needs to make the needed sops to ‘trans rights’, and somehow finds it very easy - whereas she finds time to make sure lesbians are simply ignored or actively marginalized by her work. When you’re an abortion activist (as a lesbian, I’ve always found it to be a somewhat academic subject for me personally, but that’s just me), gay people don’t really figure. It’s easy to talk about ‘people’ having abortions, because when you’re a upper-middle class woman at college, it doesn’t affect you. It costs her nothing - ultimately, for her, the question of a trans woman in a women’s shelter is academic. They will simply never encounter it. They may very rarely deal with trans women in their public or private life - so for them ‘support’ of an ‘oppressed minority’ is fine. They will never deal with creepy Chloe at the lesbian dance night losing his shit because all the women told him ‘no’. She’ll be openly hostile to lesbian women, particularly butch ones, and dress it up with trans activism. She just wants you to be comfortable with yourself. Or the lesbians hang out in the LGBT campus space, you should go there. My favourite is always it’s really gross when you objectify women like a straight man, this isn’t a space to objectify women when, say, you, a lesbian with eyes and a libido, state that a woman has a nice ass. We get it, Olivia, you’re uncomfortable around lesbians.

They’ll all encourage gay people to ‘include trans people’ and react very negatively when they express that they’re same sex attracted. After all, they would include trans people but they have a boy/girlfriend. Oh, how convenient! It doesn’t affect them. You bet if Chloe swung his dick around at Chad Straightington the Trans Rights Supporter he’d last five seconds - Chad Straightington is ten degrees to the TERF level of Shelia Jefferies when there’s a dick in his face. But for Mr. Straightington, that’s an academic possibility - nor does he face the power imbalance that many lesbian women would face in the same situation. So he can tell a lesbian to embrace the dick without pause, while knowing he’d never do the same.

Why do they do this? Is it homophobia? For some, it has to be. Plenty of straight trans activists seem to find insisting gay people accept straight sex in their sex lives their favourite issue and clearly their human rights bugbear. After all, trans activism is an easy cover to express some horribly hideous hidden homophobia. For the straight trans activist, it’s an easy tool to bully gay people. They’ll say they support you, then question why you don’t want trans women at the lesbian bar. On some level, they are supporting their own - do they understand that? Subconsciously, I think they do. It would explain why they prioritize trans rights over gay ones, that’s for sure.

But I think for most, they simply don’t care. To support trans rights means no trouble in the workplace, it means no trouble on socials, it’s a virtue signaling thing they do at parties surrounded by other straight people, as they move through straight world. It’s ultimately very little skin off their nose, as far as they’re concerned. They’re not going to have the lesbian bar suddenly fill with dick and then subsequently close, or watch a man jerk off in the women’s shelter or prison because he identified his way in. They don’t know any lesbians, not since they knew that nice couple in college, and the time they got caught with weed in the car, the cop let them off. It is easy to agree in principle to something that sounds good when it doesn’t affect you so you never have to think about the consequences. Their hypocrisy has no costs to them personally. Absolutely none. It’s easy to give money to a GoFundMe, to post #ProtectTransKids on Twitter or to have a trans flag profile picture. They will never watch their beloved cut their breasts off, or have sterility forced on them because their parents are terrified their five year old is going to turn out gay. They’re not homosexual transsexuals who blinked and suddenly found George from high school who beat them up back in the day ‘for being a big faggot’ is called Georgia now, still married to his long-suffering wife, and is now telling them what trans women really want at the trans organizations, and throwing them out when they tell them no.

It’s the modern form of the leftist homophobe. See, it’s unacceptable in polite society to be very homophobic openly these days. But that unacceptability only happened in the past ten years or so - the death of Matthew Shepherd was only in 1998, the same year Britney made it big and Tom Brady and Drew Brees, both only recently retired, were playing college football in the Big Ten. That homophobia didn’t go away, it just had to find a new outlet.

Hence the modern day pernicious homophobe. You can still be a homophobe, you just have to do it without being seen as a homophobe, you see. And best of all, you’ll be celebrated for it! It costs you nothing to say ‘some lesbians have penises’! Ignore the massive damage you’ve caused for the gay and lesbian community. Who cares? You don’t know any gay people, but your Insta is lighting up!

In the meantime, you’ve enabled enormous amounts of damage! Lesbians don’t have dating apps any more - they’re literally filled with six foot four dudes calling themselves Crystal and wearing Party City wigs. Both lesbians and gays have lost spaces and organizations that have turned around and told them they’re not welcome - straight people pretending to be gay are more important, and accepting them is a must. It is literally illegal in parts of Australia for gay people to have gay-only events because of trans activism, but who cares, really? It doesn’t affect you and those nasty lesbians trying to have a modicum of space to themselves should really get over themselves and be inclusive, it doesn’t hurt them. They should be more inclusive, those nasty TERF lesbians. After all, they’re a plague on the LGBTQI+ community, and you virtue signaled about it on Instagram.

After all, that’s their favorite line. ‘How does a trans woman identifying as a lesbian hurt you? Just let people be who they are!’. You can only say such a thing when the question is academic, and ultimately doesn’t affect you. You’re liberal, you think people should be who they are. Forget that a trans woman identifying as a lesbian is culturally appropriating another group’s very biology, forget that they harass lesbians, make them feel unwelcome in their own spaces, talk over the top of them, forget that they are trying to redefine someone else’s entire existence to suit themselves, or that they might be satisfying a sexual fetish.

If we rephrased that ‘live and let live’ type of of question to include the actual consequences of ‘letting people be who they are’, it turns into: ‘How does letting a man violate all your boundaries and redefine your identity hurt you?’ They’re being their authentic self. You’re being mean, and nasty, you’re being trans-exclusionary.

After all, how could a whole coterie of straight people identifying as gay possibly hurt gay people? Just let people be people, it doesn’t hurt you, even when you lost all your spaces and organizations and turning up to a Pride Parade and saying you are gay means you get threatened and assaulted by the straight appropriators and their tourist allies.

It’s no skin off their nose, so ignore the gaping, bleeding hole where yours used to be.

But when it is skin off their nose? Oh, that’s not gonna happen. But still, don’t talk about the fact your nose has been amputated, that’s trans exclusionary you gay bigot, you!