Trans Equals Gay - TV Trop

Contents:

• TRANS EQUALS GAY
• HOE PASS SWEEPG GAY AND TRANSGENR EQUALY LEGISLATN
• LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER, & INTERSEX LIFE

TRANS EQUALS GAY

In Real Life, beg transgenr has nothg to do wh homosexualy, as they relate to two entirely different ncepts. Beg gay or lbian relat to sexual and romantic attractn, and means "beg attracted to others of the same sex". One key pot that nf many is the fact that many trans people who are attracted to others of their birth-assigned genr may ially e out as gay, bi, or what have you, and live as such for some time, eher as a liberate steppg stone toward g out as trans, or genue nfn towards their te inty before figurg thgs out later life.

An unrmed outsir may believe this person simply kicked thgs up a notch when realy they were never homosexual the first place (or worse, believe that trans people are jt "nfed" members of that inty). Furthermore, there is the notn that trans people attracted to their target genr (trans lbians and gay trans men) are ls valid than other trans people. It is by far most mon for a character who is eher a gay man drag or a trans woman, left ambiguo bee the thor don't realize that they aren't the same thg.

HOE PASS SWEEPG GAY AND TRANSGENR EQUALY LEGISLATN

It occurs wh members of all sexual orientatns and is actually statistilly more mon among straight people than gays. Compare Camp Gay and Butch Lbian; ntrast Lipstick Lbian, Manly Gay, Straight Gay, and pecially Camp Straight.

There are a few who are explicly transgenr like Ivankov, and one who seems to be gay but not transgenr (Bon Kurei, who ends up beg butch by the standards of Ivankov and the Okama Island characters) - but most of them seem to simply regard cross-drsg as somethg they have to do.

This is largely due to Japane culture which has historilly been open and acceptg of transgenr and homosexual characters, wh many appearg as popular mythologil figur or folk hero. While this mostly pots towards her beg transgenr, thor Yana Toboso may tend to have Grell viewed as an okama or Drag Queen sce she nsistently male pronouns when speakg of Grell the third person, and she and Grell both directly e the word "okama" her art and blog posts, suggtg that Grell's feme speech and pronoun e may be an example of onee-kotoba, the effemate dialect ed by gay men and male crossdrsers. Fire Emblem Tiger & Bunny is very, very flamboyantly gay and lik referrg to himself as a "girl.

LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER, & INTERSEX LIFE

Tryg to be supportive of her gay son, Shirou's well-meang but ignorant mother tri to te herself on the subject of homosexualy.