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[–]szalinskikidproblematic androphile[S] 17 insightful - 1 fun17 insightful - 0 fun18 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Just some casual hypocrisy. The article linked in this Reddit post reports on a gay youth who killed his family for being homophobic. As terrible as it is (and as terrible as some of the takes in the Reddit comments are), I want to point out the fact that everyone ignores the paragraph stating that this guy had gender reassignment plans. We all know how eager people normally are to randomly assign trans identity to homosexuals, especially "our" historical gays and lesbians. And in this case, he actually was planning to transition and his family disapproved. But as soon as news present a trans person as anything other than a victim, biology becomes "real" again. He becomes a "gay killer" who clearly killed because of homophobia instead of a trans killer whose family disagreed with his transition. Suddenly, the nature of his relationship with his partner is correctly described as homosexual regardless of gender identity. Nobody insists on using the "right pronouns". I thought it's an interesting observation, even if it's not a new one.

EDIT: grammar/spelling

[–]reluctant_commenter 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Thank you for sharing this. It is extremely important to compile these examples.

[–]wafflegaffWoman. SuperBi. 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

In the case of AGB it might depend on how many TRAs vs gay men were the ones commenting, though it is still a little odd it didn't get mentioned by any of them. It's a pretty new and short thread, though. That might change.

[–]szalinskikidproblematic androphile[S] 13 insightful - 1 fun13 insightful - 0 fun14 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah I'll check back later and see if someone is "brave enough" to point it out. But I guess the topic is too horrible and making it about trans hypocrisy will probably not be a good idea. This is just a reminder how easy it is for people to forget their principles, and how opportunistic TRAs and gender ideology is. I mean even the word "homosexuality" normally gets coded as a transphobic dogwhistle by them but they use and accept it so willingly here, in the article and the comments.. it's like gender identity isn't as important as they say ;)

EDIT: Just as I typed this, someone mentioned it! Curious how this will go down. I assume it'll get downvoted and ignored, or it might immediately trigger the TRAs lol

[–]wafflegaffWoman. SuperBi. 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

[–]IridescentAnacondastrictly dickly 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Trans people are stunning and brave. Gays are degenerate.

That's the formula in the 2021 version of the media handbook.