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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)

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