Super Straight, What Is it, and How Is It Hurtful

So, as many people may know, recently the ‘super straight’ movement has been growing on tic tok and other social media platforms, causing huge backlash amongst the LGBTQIA+ community. But, what is it?

Well, the short answer, a way to make transphobia more acceptable, or easier to excuse than normal. The long answer? Well, it started out with a video made by the tic tok user, Kyleroyce, who claimed to be ‘super straight’ or in his words, not attracted to trans women. In short, the sexuality he ‘created’ was heterosexual, but only attracted to cis people.

This is incredibly harmful to the trans community, basically telling them that they weren’t really what they identified with. Telling a person, ‘no I won’t date you because you weren’t born a woman’ is really painful for that person. The whole ‘sexuality’ was just an excuse to get away with basic transphobia.

Now, he went on to say that so many people were making up their own sexualities and that he should be able to recast his own preferences too. When asked if it was serious or just a joke, he couldn’t really answer, and eventually came to the conclusion that it was mostly a joke.

However, this movement became super widespread, as more and more people claimed to be super straight, and a pride flag was made. Now to the LGBTQIA+ community this is just as insulting as when pedophiles tried to claim a spot under our umbrella.

This whole movement is so much of a problem. Even before ‘super straight’ became a thing the trans community was already facing huge problems with people who refused to accept that trans men are men and trans women are women. So many have face violence, or have even been killed just for their identity, and the super straight movement has just been making it all worse.

Please realize that this movement is not just another sexuality being created, but a poorly disguised excuse for transphobia. Remember, trans women are women, trans men are men.