Phobiacreep
GENITAL
PREFERENCES
ARE
TRANSPHOBIC
As is everything else. Food preferences, weather preferences, dog preferences, book preferences, politics preferences – any kind of preference is transphobic, because.
You have been told.
Now see that you obey.
Awesome graphic. I like how the pink and blue, with white at their center, are using black and brown as a shield to overcome the rest of the rainbow.
Why not just simplify their message as “homosexuality is discriminatory?”
Well, because it’s not that simple; the interdiction applies to heterosexuality too.
But isn’t genital preference one of the most essential qualities of trans people? Can we conclude then, that trans people are transphobic too?
I guess if they throw out biology and science, it’s ok to throw out reason and logic too.
There are vulnerable young homosexual-transsexuals who are disproportionately prostituted and housing-insecure, whose special medical needs are often not met, who need far better mental health treatment, who need protection from violence. But trans activism is dominated by the straight male kind of trans who, like so many men, seem to only care about getting off sexually.
When your supposed human rights campaigning isn’t about securing proper housing for trans people, or ending discrimination in the workforce, or improving access to medical care or much-needed mental health services, but instead all you do is campaign to gain access to sex partners who would otherwise not be interested in you?
That’s not any kind of human rights activism, that’s a sexual fetish cult.
Essentially “We have the right to access your body for sex, whether you like it or not.” Why don’t they have the courage of their convictions and just come out and say that?
Nup. Tried sex with another man once, when I was 18. Not for me. Never went there again. We did remain friends, and still are, 50 years later. My genital preference is clear, and I’ve never yet met a woman who thought that was odd.
I took genital preference to mean what you prefer to have yourself in the way of genitals, not what you are attracted to in others. It’s a fairly ambiguous term, I suppose it could mean both or either. But trans people definitely have genital preferences.
Anyone who promotes or espouses this dangerously corrosive idea has a poor grasp of boundaries and consent and is probably not a safe person to be around. Funny how trans ideologues are so worried about the safety of trans people around gender critical feminists, but seem to be all aboard when it comes to promoting this idea, which is a hell of a lot more dangerous and threatening than anything the GC crowd discusses (leaving out the hypobolic fever-dream TRA lie of the alleged desire of GC types wanting to exterminate trans people.)
twiliter @ 7 – Nah, it’s a term of art in the ongoing tedious branch of trans bullying that’s about saying “You have to suck my girl dick and if you say you don’t I get to make your life hell from now on.”
twiliter, genital preference is a commonly-used term in trans activism, to refer to heterosexuality and homosexuality. Rhys “Veronica Ivy Rachel” McKinnon spelled it out explicitly: any sexual orientation apart from “pansexualism” is transphobic bigotry. You are not allowed to take someone’s sex into consideration when you’re deciding whether or not to have sex with them. You must only go by declared pronouns to determine whether or not you are sexually attracted to someone. It’s utter madness and its only purpose is to help straight men with lesbian fetishes gain sexual access to lesbians.
Shockingly, it seems to be working. Recently at a “queer” stand-up comedy event I saw a butch lesbian paired up with a run-of-the-mill alpha straight bloke who grew his hair long and dyed it blonde (or maybe it was a wig?) and threw on a flowy sundress over his t-shirt and jeans. He did a stand-up bit which was nothing but mocking “terfs”, denying the existence of ROGD (rapid-onset gender dysphoria, or the trans social contagion sweeping through the adolescent girl population) and playing up for laughs how much of a blue-collar workin’ man typical dude he is despite his being a “trans woman”. It was appalling.
Well thanks OB and Arty for helping me understand a little better, I always think I’m pretty good at semantics and then I find out I’m not because of this new trans jargon. I would still say that trans people all have genital preferences, however individual or confused those might be, unless they are completely asexual which would be at the extreme margins.
Weird how having a preference for certain genitals is transphobic, but is not also homo / hetero phobic (If the person is hetero / homo sexual), nor andro / gyno phobic (if the person prefers women / men)… all of these are equally applicable – no, more applicable, as they are at least preferences for physically defined categories – but no, no other interest enters into it. Trans politics trumps all.
Whoah. So true. Mind blown. I never thought of it that way and I’ve never heard anyone put it that way, and I’m not sure why that is? It seems so obvious now that it’s been spelled out. It’s been right in front of us the whole time.
Brilliant!
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I would be amazed if they didn’t, but it’s a one way street.
Many trans people demand to be unquestioningly recognized as the gender they claim to be, and demand that their preferred pronouns are used when they’re not even in the room (on penalty of de-platforming, dismissal, police visits, etc.), yet insist on labelling anyone they want to as “cis”, whether the “anyone” so labelled agrees with or accepts that label or not. Only they get to label other people at will. Only they are allowed to have power and agency.
I would go so far as to say in this new paradigm, only trans people are allowed to have genital preferences. Whoever/whatever they want is peachy keen and perfectly reasonable. Everyone else, however is a bigot. Just like incels, they believe they are entitled to sex with whomever they want. They are owed sexual access, and denying them that is hateful and bigotted.
Sure looks like it.
The older I get, the more clear it becomes my ex-boyfriends’ dicks have been the absolute best thing about them. I generally don’t even like the people attached to them and the genital preference remains strong.
My transphobia is strooooooong.
Oh the irony. Genital preferences are transphobic? Really? So being trans is then transphobic? Considering some clearly have a preference for genitals other than the ones they were born with.
@Holms #14,
I should clarify that my last comment wasn’t sarcastic. It somehow never occurred to me that the whole “genital preferences” thing implies everyone is “homophobic” as well as transphobic. That’s quite a brilliant insight that I never saw for some reason. It’s one thing to tell everyone they’re transphobic for not considering “trans” men/women in the same sexual way as “cis” men/women, but I hadn’t extrapolated that to the logic that therefore straights and gays are “genitally” bigoted against others. It’s a very handy comeback I intend to deploy next time I get the chance. :)
Some people are saying that makes them the most transphobic of all.
Some commenters on the tweet are saying it’s a “false flag” operation by TERFs. At least they realize it’s problematic. Maybe they should have a word with the Cyclepath.?
Holms, Artymorty, #13 & 14. I’ve seen some refutations of the argument that if genital preferences are transphobic then they must also be homophobic, heterophobic, and so-on, and they rely entirely on the conflation of sex with gender and that the TWAW, TMAM idea is already settled and should be accepted as fact by everybody.
Basically, their claim is that sexual attraction is based on sex/gender, and that genitals are not sex/gender specific. Therefore, because a straight man is sexually attracted to women he can reject other men – including TIFs – as potential lovers not because of their genitals but purely because they are the wrong sex/gender. But because TWAW, a straight man refusing to have sex with a TIM is denying the womanhood of that TIM and so is clearly transphobic. The same rule applies to lesbians, of course.
Similarly, a gay man (and straight woman) is attracted to men, so can refuse to consider having sex with women – including TIMs – because they are not men, but cannot refuse to consider sex with a TIF because that would be transphobic.
Theoretically, in this fucked-up worldview it’s bisexuals of either sex who have it worst when it comes to sex because they cannot refuse to consider anybody, no matter how they identify.
Fortunately, as I said at the start, the whole argument is reliant on the acceptance of the sex/gender/genital disconnect, and as that disconnect is, if you’ll pardon the expression, a complete bag of bollocks then their argument fails.
Wait… really? I was convinced there was no other way to read it but as sarcasm – and I scanned it through squinted eyes from multiple angles to make sure.
But yes, when self-id is accepted in place of sex, all bets are off. Any statement regarding any aspect of sex just falls apart when examined.