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[–]lovelyspearmintLesbeing a lesbian 44 insightful - 1 fun44 insightful - 0 fun45 insightful - 1 fun -  (9 children)

Can someone please make a graphic of the amount of people who are gay, trans and disabled?

Because the actual percentage of that happening is minimal but it almost seems like half the trans community are (self-declared) disabled in one way or another. Everyone seems to be neurodivergent or have a conveniently invisible illness. As someone who ironically is homosexual, neuroatypical (a far more appropriate, less wokey term) and has an invisible dysautonomic condition, it's sickening how many fake these conditions to get woke and intersectionality points both online and IRL.

[–]Dromedary 32 insightful - 1 fun32 insightful - 0 fun33 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Dunno, maybe claiming to be disabled helps with their GoFundMe hustles that 80 percent of them seem to have going. Lord knows lots of these people look unemployable. Maybe "disabled" means "mentally ill", and that's pretty obviously rampant with the Ts for sure. Gender dysphoria itself is a mental illness, (like anxiety disorder is considered a mental illness (I have it). This used to be common sense, but now it's forbidden to say so.

[–]lovelyspearmintLesbeing a lesbian 24 insightful - 1 fun24 insightful - 0 fun25 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The worst part is that a lot of them are probably perfectly sane, just narcissistic and acutely aware of the benefits of claiming to be trans (of which there are remarkably many, and are surprisingly not always offered to LGB).

I think a sizable chunk of people who are trans these days insist that a) it's not a mental illness (but they still want to have any treatment publicly funded as if it is), and b) gender dysphoria is no longer required for a person to be trans. So no, I think when they say disabled, it's usually something nebulous like neurodiversity (which can mean anything really) or an invisible illness where there are no obvious issues seen from pictures alone.

[–]Tikiri 16 insightful - 1 fun16 insightful - 0 fun17 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

This. I’ve always wondered whether claiming a disability is kind of like those people who panhandle by the side of the road with signs, plus a child or two next to them. People are more likely to give money when they see the child. It’s a sickening tactic, but it works because it triggers natural human compassion, more than if the person’s panhandling by themselves. So, maybe they’re hoping the “disability” will work the same way and more people will venmo/cashapp/whatever.

[–]berlin13 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

To me it’s always a red flag when someone is that quick to tell you they are ‘disabled’. Not that actual people with disabilities should hide it and be ashamed, of course not, but most people don’t think it defines them enough to be something you put on your bio or repeat every time you get a chance

[–]lavender_menace 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Plus people in actual need of assistance, either because they are old, poor or disabled, often prefer to try and do it themselves instead of asking for help. But grifters have no shame, no honor, no humility and no sense of good timing 😏.

[–]ChunkeeguyTeam T*RF Fuck Yeah[S] 19 insightful - 2 fun19 insightful - 1 fun20 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

it almost seems like half the trans community are (self-declared) disabled in one way or another

And begging for money on assorted platforms into the bargain.

[–]Archie 13 insightful - 1 fun13 insightful - 0 fun14 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Also note how this person is "ace" (asexual). Every word is under attack.

In fact, I feel like it doesn't get talked about as much but there's a whole community who will flame you if you say asexuals typically aren't interested in sex. They call asexual people who aren't attracted to everyone of the opposite sex instantly and who are more attracted by people they know and like (= normal people or almost everyone).

And it's terrifying because they attempt to teach this to teenagers everywhere on the internet. For them normalcy will mean asexual.

[–]lovelyspearmintLesbeing a lesbian 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

They would either be asexual or demisexual (which is the woke term for wanting a friendship/relationship before sex, which is most people).

I think it's worrying that teenagers are taking this seriously, and don't understand that their sex drives could be lower as a result of many things, but it doesn't mean they're asexual. True asexuals are very rare.

[–]Constantine 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

9/10 these are people who claim that their mental illness makes them disabled. They love calling themselves disabled. I agree mental illness can be debilitating, but I think there should be other words for that. Similar with the "neurodivergent" nonsense, that used to just mean documented, diagnosed ASD and now it means everything under the sun.