• Auli ( Auli@lemmy.ca ) 
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    1 year ago

    I mean yes it is? Isn’t it pansexual when your into everyone. Not having sex with trans is not a phobia just like not having sex with men or women depending on your preference is not a phobia.

    • Trans people being for pansexuals is a common trope in queer pandering media. They specifically pair trans people with pansexuals, so they can be inclusive, but in the specific way that doesn’t ask their mostly cis and straight audience to question their own sexuality, because that might make them uncomfortable.

      Its not a reflection of reality. Hot women are hot, hot men are hot, regardless of how they got there.

      Edit: I disagree with the ban. It isn’t transphobic to be misinformed. They even phrased it as a question, and didn’t argue their position any further. They sounded genuinely confused about the terms, and every other reply seemed to have drawn the same conclusion.

    • You can be lesbian and not like penis, but being lesbian does not imply that. A lesbian cis woman might be with a trans woman and then that’s not a very effective birth control anymore, but she’s still lesbian.

    • riwo ( riwo@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 
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      ofc its not a phobia to have preferences. my critique is towards excluding people from certain labels of gender based attraction, for things other than their gender. especially if those people are systemically opressed for their gender.

      crazy example now, but sometimes that helps seeing things in a new light:

      if i say that im not into old people because i am a lesbian, then thats kinda messed up, because it implies that old women are not women.

      does that help?

      and ofc, because we live in a cis-normative society, many people dont often think about how women can also have dicks. forgetting about that isnt necessairily transphobic but might also just be a cis-normative oopsy.

    • Alice ( Alice@beehaw.org ) 
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      I’m a lesbian, I’m not changing my label to pan because I’ve dated trans women. Most people who feel attraction feel it before even learning what genitals the other person was born with.