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just wanted to bring this up, what is with the influx of “LGB” people spreading the most vile, hateful transphobic and discriminatory crap? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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idk if they’re part of the community or saying this for attention/an excuse, plus ik not everyone is like this, but the people who are make me sick.

i have noticed an influx of highly religious internet users claiming to be bisexual with pride flags in their bio yet saying the most bigoted, vile crap. how sick do you have to be to do that?

thinking minorities are weird and saying they deserve death while playing the minority card??

i don’t care if you’re a queer person who says shit like “lgbt lives matter!! im queer and i hate when people are homophobic!! homophobia ends now” stop trying to make yourself look good.

also some of these people are women who are “anti-feminist” and also say “women just want something to complain about 🥱” respectfully shut up!!

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

First they came for the T in LGBT -- and I did not speak up, because I was not transgender.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

I doubt these people are actually part of the community. Someone else posted a link in another thread explaining that this is a strategy of the far right to splinter LBGTQ solidarity. For example, the recent move by the Trump administration to remove transgender people from Stonewall history.

https://www.splcenter.org/resources/hate-watch/christian-right-tips-fight-transgender-rights-separate-t-lgb/

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

"Divide and conquer"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

I think a great deal of those people are straight or internalized homophobia + transphobia

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I'm sure some large percentage are bots, and another percentage are trolls.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

probably a troll that I saw, twitter bio that said “she/her | proud terf | 18”

and she was also dropping trans peoples’ usernames for people to harass said users?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

All the popular LGBTQIA+ accounts that I follow on social networks are posting stuff like "no LGB without the T". Until now, the community is united. Even if people are afraid of being vocal for the trans rights, nobody would actively support what's happening.

If you see transphobic accounts pretending to be LGB, you can be pretty sure they're fake

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

Historically that hasn't always been the case that the community was united. There were a lot of gay men that were sexist and transphobic after all "platinum homosexuality", meaning a man birn by c-section so they have never seen or touched a vagina, doesn't come from people who aren't misogynistic.

There are absolutely transphobic people in the community and its the job of the non-transphobes to fix that.