Can someone tell me what on a subreddit specifically for bisexuals there are suddenly trending memes about trans people?

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I'm trying to put me finger on why I'm deeply uncomfortable with those mods. In the blog post there is that part where the one they're married to defends talking to a 13 year old girl about masturbation. I had a sneak through nekosune's post history and they post a question asking about how they can buy hormones for a you transgirl. There was also a link to an article where Challenor is advocating for schools not to tell parents that their child is transitioning. These actions look like red flags to me, they fit a pattern of grooming behaviours— talking to kids about sexuality and gender, teaching them what to think about those things and molding their identity, splitting those kids off from their support network.... These are all things you see in the trans community in various forms too.

I don't know, maybe I'm being paranoid and I'm just yelling into the void here. But I wonder what they might be doing on an alt account, or what sort of behaviour they wouldn't stop in those communities. There seems to be a lack of understanding about having boundaries around children.

Certainly, the best people to moderate /r/lgbt etc are your basic LGB folk. I do see same-sex attraction in a fair number of well-adjusted paraphiles, but it is of a different nature, has a different trajectory, and should be dealt with separately.

How do you mean? I'm neutral to the idea of paraphilias and don't really know much about them (beyond the AGP types lol).

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Certainly, the best people to moderate /r/lgbt etc are your basic LGB folk. I do see same-sex attraction in a fair number of well-adjusted paraphiles, but it is of a different nature, has a different trajectory, and should be dealt with separately.

How do you mean? I'm neutral to the idea of paraphilias and don't really know much about them (beyond the AGP types lol).

Well, the paraphilias are all unique. It's that "other" category, after all.

Let's look at sexual orientation identity in furries (yes, this is an erotic phenomena.)

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-018-1303-7 A large majority of our sample reported non-heterosexual identities (84%) and some degree of sexual motivation for being furries (99%).

Some community work on orientation:

https://en.wikifur.com/wiki/Sexual_orientation#Sexual_orientation_and_furry

https://adjectivespecies.com/2015/08/24/furry-demographics/

Certainly, most bisexual and gay men are not furries. Being same-sex attracted does not make one a furry. But why are non-heterosexual orientation identities overwhelmingly over-represented in furries? Why does it work the other way around?

In short, it's because they have a sexual interest that, to varying individual degrees, disregards the sex binary. Most people are exclusively on the sex binary axis of attraction--man, woman, or both. Furries are playing by a somewhat different set of rules. That's not to say that they can't or won't have meaningful, long-term same-sex relationships outside of their fandom or fursona (fur persona.) They don't turn straight when they take off their fursuit. But they're not gay or bisexual like most people are gay or bisexual. There's room for them in LGB, IMHO. For those that are same-sex attracted, they are subject to prejudices on that account, and homophobes don't check receipts and what you do in private is your business, and all that. All I'd ask, and this is a universal sentiment, is that they keep it to their proverbial bedroom, and that they also recognize, understand, and respect their differences when interacting with LGB at large. Stay on topic, more or less, irrespective of how you arrived.