It's crazy how straight TIFs and TIMs looove calling themselves "gay" or "lesbian" because they want to be the sexy, interesting, exotic gays and are sick of being called oppressors or boring cissies.
Except that what you call ‘straight’ is in fact ‘gay/lesbian’. Soooo… they call themselves that because that’s what they are.
Oh, by the way, I checked what the teenager they mentioned said that prompted this. The thread is in response to a screenshot that says the following:
For me I'm the complete opposite. I hated being a gay man. For me being in a straight relationship makes more sense. But that's because I'm straight not gay. I just didn't know I was a girl till my early teenage years.
That’s it, that’s what little2n said.
None of this “I want to transition to escape homophobia”. She just mentions that being a ‘gay man’ felt wrong, because that’s fundamentally not what she was. She’s not straight because that’s socially acceptable and less discriminated against; she’s straight… because she’s a girl who’s into men. It’s that simple.
But of course, the TERF disregarded that and just built up a whole interpretation that shoehorns what the trans girl said into the box TERFs made for them.
TERF theories are assumed to be right and always valid. If the facts on the ground don’t fit the theory, then all the worse for the facts. They will be twisted in such a way as to fit the TERFs’ preconceived notions, even if the TERFs have to completely mangle what was said in order to achieve that.
Oh, also? The Ovarit thread’s name is “14 [year] old TiM admits to having internalize[d] homophobia”. Guess who admitted no such thing?
Unless there’s some critical context I’m missing (it’s certainly not in that Ovarit thread), that’s just another thing that the TERF OP completely made up. Pulled it straight out of her ass.
Again, depending on context, I might be wrong, but given that we’re talking about TERFs here, I wouldn’t be surprised if she indeed just made it up to fit her theory.
I tried looking at the user’s Reddit profile, but it says the account has been suspended. I even checked archive.org, and surprisingly there is something there, but only as late as April. Still, there’s something that can help us interpret this case:
I was fine with my body until puberty hit. Gender stereotypes were never really a thing in my household. Puberty hit and I developed anorexia. I was hospitalized in middle school. My psych said I had gender dysphoria at 13, but I never transitioned. Mainly because I didn’t want to be denied by society, and discriminated against. I lived in rural Oklahoma. Now I live in ATX and I can express myself without being murdered and assaulted. If I my dysphoria was treated, my ana would’ve went away. Years of my life would’ve been saved. My eating disorder took a lot of my lifespan away
Oh look, here’s the subject of the Ovarit thread explicitly saying that she initially did not transition, and it was because of societal stigma and discrimination. For being trans, rather than gay.
So yeah, the trans teen herself thereby sank the quoted TERF’s theory.
P.S. I also checked the Reddit thread where little2n (the trans teen) commented. Here it is. The original post there by a person known as Historical-Regret85 says the following:
So, I'm not fully sure about being trans yet (though I'm certain I'm not in love with being a "lady") But there's this thing that I sometimes do; I go, "I wish I were a man so I could be gay." As if the idea of a gay relationship appeals more to me? What about you? Have you ever experienced something like this?
To which little2n replied:
For me I'm the complete opposite. I hated being a gay man. For me being in a straight relationship makes more sense. But that's because I'm straight not gay. I just didn't know I was a girl till my early teenage years.
So, at least there is a plausible interpretation of that which could have led XX_Power (the TERF) to conclude that this person was ‘fleeing homophobia’. It’s this part of the Reddit thread OP: “I wish I were a man so I could be gay.” One possible complete opposite of that would be “I wish I were a woman so I were straight / weren’t gay”. I’ll give the TERF that tiny bit of credit.
If you interpret “I’m the complete opposite” as referring to that in isolation, you could conclude what XX_Power did. But from the wider context, it seems pretty clear to me that that wasn’t what little2n meant. As I said, she clearly said that being considered a gay male felt wrong to her, and she is certain that she’s in fact a trans girl. That’s the reason she’s straight rather than gay.
In summary, this was a case of TERFs yet again being superficial and settling for the interpretation that happens to fit their preconceived notions about trans people, even though there’s plenty of context that shows them to be wrong in this case.
