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(Maybe. This is really confusing ohnoes )

  • gaycomputeruser [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    You can use my subscription to het+ if you want, I don’t anymore. (Het+ is a term for cool people that have grappled with their sexual orientation and turned out to be straight. Much cooler than normal hets)

  • zifnab25 [he/him, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    0·
    1 year ago

    In all seriousness, what constitutes heterosexuality when you’re trans? That feels like one of those “multiplying by a negative twice” situations.

    • NephewAlphaBravo [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago
      warning: cishet take incoming, just read the response instead

      as far as I’m aware it’s the same as for cis people, it’s when you’re attracted to the opposite gender

      • motherfucker [they/them, she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        This is technically correct, but I believe his point was that cishet people get to experience heterosexuality as a default mode which is passively affirmed throughout most of society, whereas trans people often have more alienation from that passive affirmation, both in their gender and in their sexuality. If a trans man and a trans woman are attracted to each other, are not attracted to members of their own gender, their relationship is a straight relationship, but it can also be a queer one and they’re more likely to see it as such because of their relationship with trans-ness.