"It's transphobic to say you wouldn't date trans people"

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[–]julesburm1891 44 insightful - 5 fun44 insightful - 4 fun45 insightful - 5 fun -  (5 children)

Where to even begin? Panel by panel?

  1. Being attracted to only one sex and the sex organ that accompanies them is not a fetish.

  2. There’s no scenario where same-sex couples produce children. If someone is homosexual, the option to biological children with a partner is never on the table. The ability to have biological children doesn’t suddenly make the opposite sex attractive. (Or, you know, LGB people would’ve just become magically straight for centuries.) Furthermore, a straight person coupling with a trans person using your made up definitions would be a homosexual union. It would not produce children.

  3. Show me one transwoman’s body that isn’t male and doesn’t have male genitalia. You can’t. Because the entire purpose of being trans is trying to be like the opposite sex. So, yes, I’ll continue to acknowledge what transwomen’s bodies look like.

  4. Unless they’re completely deceived (which is rape), they most often don’t. But, let’s humor this—if regular people are boning trans people all the time, why don’t trans people ever shut up about how no one will fuck them?

  5. If I want to stand on a street corner and scream about how much I dislike olives, I damn well will. So, you can believe I will continue to assert that I’m not into men.

[–]Eurowoman24 17 insightful - 2 fun17 insightful - 1 fun18 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

"Furthermore, a straight person coupling with a trans person using your made up definitions would be a homosexual union. It would not produce children." In their minds it would. If kids are the problem they expect het woman + transwoman and het man+ transman pairings, then for us to call ourselves lesbians/gay which would prove that gay relationships produce children. UwU. Problem is there's way more competition out in the het dating world and you can't bully straight men, hence the focus on LGBs first. - correct me if I'm wrong but that's my best guess.

[–]winterwillow 12 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 0 fun13 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Referring to the whole 'people wanting bio children' reason for not dating trans people like the comic does, is dishonest. It feels like a situation that would occur mostly maybe 20-30 years ago, when the majority of transwomen were homosexual, and a reason why they couldn't find a long term relationship was because the (closeted?) men they were dating eventually wanted a family and biological children, something a trans woman, no matter how well they pass, can offer.

However, it's not passing homosexual transexuals writing these types of comics, and it's not straight men they're targeting, it's lgb men and women. It's basically a strawman argument, no gay person is turning down straight sex because 'no biological children', it doesn't make sense. It's just to make them seem more targeted/oppressed than they are.

[–]julesburm1891 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Exactly. And it ignores the fact that straight people turning down trans people for this reason is just politeness. They don’t want to date a member of the same sex, but saying “I just really want kids” is nicer than, “fuck off. I’m not gay.”

But, when do TRAs ever take a hint or make a coherent argument?

[–]reluctant_commenter 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Unless they’re completely deceived (which is rape), they most often don’t. But, let’s humor this—if regular people are boning trans people all the time, why don’t trans people ever shut up about how no one will fuck them?

EXACTLY. I have found no answers to this, either. One of the Unsolved Mysteries of Gender, I suppose...