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This following thread is a response to @ArielleScarcell and @MsBlaireWhite's video about dating preferences and transphobia. https://youtu.be/f6ywxHAvAds (1/??)
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Let's start by agreeing on the truth of some free-floating contextless facts: 1. Everyone has the absolute right to refuse sex with anyone at any time for any reason. Ever. 2. Not wanting to fuck trans people is not *necessarily* in itself a sign of bigotry.
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What I want to dispute is not the truth of these facts (they are literally true) but the *way in which they are used* as an alibi to bigotry, ignorance, or misunderstanding.
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Arielle frames this issue as an *attack on lesbianism*—t r a n s a c t i v i s t s (we're told) insist that lesbians "should" be attracted to trans women. Arielle responds: lesbians aren't attracted to trans women BECAUSE they're lesbians—ie because they're attracted to *women.*
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Arielle believes and advocates the idea that people are only attracted to trans people on the basis of their birth sex. She mentions having dated a trans man because she was attracted to him *as a woman.*
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She repeatedly suggests that any and all so-called "lesbians" who are into trans women are actually just bisexuals who could never understand the true lesbian mentality.
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Her point is always: lesbians aren't into trans women *because* they're lesbians. Gay men aren't into trans guys *because* they're gay. The idea is that sexual orientation is based exclusively on assigned birth sex, and *gender* is little more than a figment of trans imagination.
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