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[–][deleted] 26 insightful - 3 fun26 insightful - 2 fun27 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

Hi, I'm new here. Fresh off of the supersexuality trend over on Reddit where I got my account permanently banned for calling a TRA a homophobe for trying to get the superlesbian subreddit banned.

So, anyway, how I ended up disagreeing with the T happened about 2 years ago during my last year in university. A trans woman had asked me out on a date and I had said no and I said it was because I had wanted to focus on university and not date anyone at the moment to try to avoid any drama. At this time the reasoning was accepted.

However, a few months later I met my girlfriend. We were not yet dating at the time, but it was clear to our friend group that we had feelings for each other. The trans woman became super possessive and jealous towards me constantly demanding my time and attention. I reasserted that I wasn't going to date anyone until after I graduated university and that I could not spend that much time with people because of studying. This didn't really work.

When I graduated the trans woman asked me out again almost immediately. At which point I said no, because I had feelings for someone who I wanted to ask out. This went over extremely poorly. I was called a TERF because I was choosing a woman over a trans woman and that the trans woman had apparently called dibs on me because he asked me out first. He then went to our shared friend group and told everyone there that I was a transphobic and since most of them were fairly involved in LGBT activist, even though most of them were straight, they immediately turned on me.

I tried to explain what happened but people refused to listen to me and just believed what the trans woman said. The trans woman proceed to send me a number of threats and even found out where I lived and nailed a threat to my door. I was able to file for and received a restraining order against him and I have not heard from him since.

Even after all this, my so-called friends still suck by him and refused to even listen to me and told me I had exaggerated the threats. Even though I had proof.

Then I looked around and saw that similar things were happening to lesbians everywhere. I realized that playing along with the trans activist was dangerous and that their movement was inherently homophobic and that it had no place being grouped together with sexualities.

For a long time I felt like I had no place to go in the world. The only other person who I felt was on my side was my girlfriend and that was because she had experienced every thing I had experienced with me.

Then suddenly, as if out of nowhere the straights got attacked and started fighting back. I am deeply saddened that the LGBT community refused to listen to lesbians for so long about these issues and that they allowed it to get so bad that they pissed off the straights. It feels a bit helpless to have to rely on straight people to fight back against what has happened to our own community.

The T does not belong with the LGB.

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

Hey, welcome! I am so, so sorry that happened to you; that is beyond unjust and that transwoman was completely overstepping your boundaries-- boundaries that any reasonable person would draw.

Hope you have been able to find some more supportive people in your life IRL! If you're ever interested by the way, sometimes people in this sub do posts ranting/venting about similar things that happened to them.