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"why does cotton ceiling rhetoric mainly focus on lesbians and gay men and not straight people? why aren't straight people told that they need to 'unlearn their transphobic genital preferences'?" the answer is simple, my friends:
"straight" trans people, as a general rule, don't feel the same sense of entitlement that "gay" trans people do. when i identified as a straight trans guy, i would never even dream of trying to pressure a straight woman into dating me, because i grew up gay, and i already felt
like my attraction was inherently predatory. surprise surprise, the homophobic socialization i endured as a kid didn't magically go away when i started calling myself straight. i could hardly flirt with a woman without feeling guilty, much less try to pressure her into anything.
but all of these "gay" trans people, they grew up straight. they grew up without feeling like their attraction was predatory, they grew up just expecting that the people they like would like them back. so they have no issue trying to coerce or guilt people into sex.
as someone who is homosexual, i am and have always been very aware of my biological sex and how it limits my dating pool. i have always understood that only women who are attracted to other female bodies will be attracted to me. but people who grew up straight didn't have
to develop that same sense of self-awareness, so it's also easier for them to feel like everyone should be attracted to them, and that their biology is irrelevant.
there is a world of difference between how heterosexuals and homosexuals have been socialized to think about attraction and it clearly carries over when these people start IDing as trans.
then there's the fact that the LGB community is easier to target. because we are sexual minorities ourselves, we are much more susceptible to feeling like we need to be "inclusive" then straight people are. TRAs know this, and they use it.
i hope every gay person knows that it's okay to be exclusively same-sex attracted, and that none of the boundaries they have are bigoted or evil. same-sex love is beautiful.
