People.com commentators want you to know Muslims are alright as long as they’re discriminating against trans women.
Or–wait, no, they want you to know you’d be EXECUTED in Islam! You’re lucky you can be sent to prison for peeing in America or that one of the presidential candidates is representing the most rabidly anti-LGBT platform in the party’s history!
GiGi Gorgeous was denied entry to the United Arab Emirates because she is transgender.
So, what do these Western commentators do to demonstrate how much more civilized the West is? Why, up the ante on transphobia to demonstrate how much better we have it, obviously.
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anat says
Wow this is disgusting.
BTW the whole ‘transgender people are gay people with internalized homophobia’ sounds totally ridiculous when many of the trans people I know describe their orientation as pansexual. Or how about those trans people who are attracted predominantly to members of their affirmed gender? But no, haters have to overgeneralize from a single case (which may be entirely imaginary in the first place).
Katie Anderson says
I’ve seen plenty of “they hang them in Iran” comments. They hate it when you point out that Iran actually has state-funded support for transitioning and carries out more reassignment surgeries than any country other than Thailand.
Of course there are tons of negatives – the biggest seems to be that a significant number of them are gay men who had to make a choice between pretending to be straight or transitioning to a gender they don’t identify as in order for their relationships with men to be accepted. But there’s no need to bring that up when shutting down a ranting bigot’s argument.