The Trans Equals Gay trope as ed popular culture. The mistaken belief that a Transgenr person is jt a gay person that "leveled up." This trope was …
Contents:
- TRANS EQUALS GAY
- HOE PASS SWEEPG GAY AND TRANSGENR EQUALY LEGISLATN
- LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER, & INTERSEX LIFE
TRANS EQUALS GAY
* 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".
HOE PASS SWEEPG GAY AND TRANSGENR EQUALY LEGISLATN
A page for scribg Lanic: Trans Equals Gay. Transgenr people are prented as gay people who have "leveled up". * trans equals gay *
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.
LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER, & INTERSEX LIFE
A page for scribg PlaygWh: Trans Equals Gay. Basic Trope: The nfn of beg Transgenr wh homosexualy. Straight: Alice is a transgenr … * trans equals gay *
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. 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.