#iDare to be inclusive and supportive of marginalised groups

First, a bit of history:

For transgender people, it wasn’t until 2004 when The Gender Recognition Act was passed in the UK, it grants full legal recognition for binary transgender people. People who don’t just identity as the two sexes are still facing discrimination to this day. Gender and sex are often confused as being the same. Gender is not just male or female, which is scientifically proven from multiple scientists explaining that gender is spectrum and not binary, and isn’t about someone's anatomy, it’s about who they know themselves to be. As of 2019, there are at least 64 different gender identities including, non-binary, agender, pangender and genderqueer.

So many different examples of this have existed throughout history and in different cultures. For example, the Native Americans used a well respected blanket term, called “Two Spirit” which comes from the idea that everyone has both a male and female spirit within their body. Depending which spirit is more dominant, that’s where a person’s identity comes from and not their physical form. They widely recognised genderqueer, transgender and genderfluid.

Lately, there has been a huge amount of discrimination against the transgender community.

So over the past two weeks, the video has spread across TikTok and onto other social media sites, and even on the 4chan website which is known for being the home of far-right trolls. Members on 4chan discussed creating and sharing memes about being super straight to “dive a wedge” within the LGBTQ+ community and “use the left’s tactics against themselves, call them bigots for not accepting super straights”.

The logic behind this “new sexuality” is so flawed because super straights say they would only date women who were born female and can have children. So, from their logic, they would date trans men and wouldn’t date women that can’t have children. Also when asked what their pronouns are, most would respond with “obviously I’m a man or woman. I don’t have pronouns”. The amount of ignorance they have is just laughable. Polite and respectful people would say, “I’m he/him” or “I’m she/her”. There is a rare amount of people who love to mock trans people by claiming that their pronouns are “nor/mal”.

No one is forcing anyone to date trans people. It becomes a problem when a whole movement is made directly against trans people and spreading misinformation and lies about that particular group of people. Not wanting to date someone solely on them being transgender is transphobic. Even though this is a very serious topic, the amusing part of it is that all of the super straights are just outing themselves as transphobic without them realising. So hopefully all of this will slowly fade away soon.