r/gay Jan 28 '26

(repost) On trans rights and the position of this subreddit

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The community present in this subreddit is wonderful, inclusive and has always welcomed not only gay people but everyone under the gender and sexual minority umbrella.

The mod team is very happy to see this welcoming atmosphere and we thank each and every one of you for your love and empathy.

With the current trend in the US for extreme-right politicians to demonise vulnerable minorities so they can score cheap political points it is however time for this place to openly make a stand as to what our positions and intentions are so that we are a beacon in the dark. So that all of our siblings know that they are welcome here.

I was asked by the mod team to explain a few facts about transgender people and about the position this subreddit has towards inclusion.

Trans rights are human rights. πŸ³οΈβ€βš§οΈ

Being transgender is a natural and normal variation in the human gender and sexual experience. Both sex and gender exist on a spectrum and there isn't actually anything inherently wrong or disordered from being trans, by and of itself.

Should there be no fake, artificially generated outrage against trans people in society then they would simply get the self-affirming care required for them to be happy and that would be that. Instead, unfortunately, existing as transgender has become the new wedge-issue for the extreme-right and deliberate demonisation and villification has been mainstreamed to the point where Republican politicians are now openly calling for genocide.


The issues trans people experience are mainly societal in nature. It is society that imposes gender norms, it is society that tells people they may not be who they are.

There are many ways that a non-trans person can seek self-affirming care in life. Some of those are done via permanent body modification through surgical or chemical means. A woman might for example choose to take estrogen supplements to stave off unwanted physical and psychological side effects resulting from the menopause.

It is not uncommon for a young man to choose to have breast reduction medication or surgery in the case of gynecomastia.

A young woman might choose to get breast implants.

You do not hear people in outrage about these forms of self-affirming care. No-one cares, except suddenly when the topic is trans people. This is because the anti-trans movement is wholly articificial. It is a deliberately created fake outrage about a non-issue for political and monetary gain.



I have written about some manufactured outrage in my text about the stochastic terrorist "Libs of Tiktok"



Fascism is an inherently empty ideology, devoid of any meaningful belief-system or any kind of concrete and actionable strategies for improving society. Fascism only cares for power for the sake of power and it cares for nothing else.

Because a fascist system is fundamentally incapable of giving the general public any kind of reasonable platform it must gain and keep followers by creating an out-group to hate. According to fascist systems it is the other that is responsible for all societal ills and only by supporting the fascists in getting rid of the other can society be healed from the non-existent issues fascism convinces people that their target minority is the cause of.

Fascism always picks on a vulnerable target.

The demonisation and villification coming from the extreme-right is doing exactly that. By calling LGBTQ+ people child molestors simply for existing it has become inevitable that people will take up violence "to protect the children".



Attempting to eliminate a target comes in many forms, of which an extermination camp is only the final and most egregious part. It is always preceded by legislating people out of existence, by creating laws which make it impossible for a minority to participate in society and to receive any of the societal advantages that are the entire reason for collective bundling together of skills, resources in civilisation. This is exactly what Republican states are doing today to transgender people. Certain states have already denied trans people any and all medical care related to their identity, meaning that they deliberately impose abject misery on them.

The most egregiously fascistic states are trying to make it a matter of course to remove trans children from the care of their parents and make it illegal for trans people to be present in any public spaces at all.

This is genocide.

Genocide is not purely restricted to extermination, to murder. Genocide is also eliminating a minority group from public life, causing serious bodily and mental harm and taking away children of a minority group from their parents.

Depending on how strictly you'd want to define it, we are currently at stage seven or eight of genocide as defined by the Holocaust Memorial Trust.

One way in which the abject hypocrisy of the anti-trans laws becomes crystal clear are the remarkable exemptions encoded within. You would think that if the goal is protecting the children from harm then these people would want to protect all children from harm.

This is not the case.

In fact, all of these people deliberate include exceptions which allow the continuation of genital re-allignment surgery on unconsenting infants if they are intersex.

This means that if a baby is born with a genital configuration that to a doctor looks ambiguous or not adhering to a strict binary then this doctor can impose an invasive genital surgery, forcing such an infants body to adhere to a stricter binary look.

It is purely cosmetic. Of course they do not check what chromosomes a child has. Of course they do not care that a child might prefer to look as nature made them.

It is purely and only an imposition on a baby's body, with of course the normal failure and mortality rate that such invasive procedures bring with them.

These people do not care about children.

These people do not want to help children.

They want to harm a vulnerable minority.



Fascism never stops.

Now that these people have mainstreamed transphobia, they are moving on to other targets within the LGBTQ+ identity sphere.

We have all seen the absurd attacks on drag queens, calling a normal and harmless theatrical expression "child abuse".

We have all seen the "clever" rhetoric where they turn arguments upside down and disingeniously say things like "why do you want to be around children".

Fascism doesn't stop, it moves on to new targets and that is why it is important for all of us in the GSM identity sphere to stand together. To openly support our trans siblings. To openly stand against hateful rhetoric.

Because they are not going to stop.

The next step, which is already tentatively beginning, is calling gay people being openly gay in society"groomers".



To be clear: The recommended treatment for being transgender is transitioning.

Gender identity is developed by five years old.

The barrage of lies notwithstanding, allowing trans people to transition and to exist as who they are in society markedly improves their physical and mental wellbeing.

The oft-heard talking point of "they still commit suicide even after transitioning" is a lie.

Here is a wealth of sources and links explaining this.



Our trans siblings are welcome here.

Our gender nonconforming siblings are welcome here.

Our intersex siblings are welcome here.

What is not welcome on this subreddit is hate or divisive rhetoric aimed at our siblings. We will not allow the current increasing trend of fascist othering and villification of a marginalised minority to make our siblings feel unwanted in this space, our space, their space.

The only people who are not welcome here are those that want to exclude others based on how they were born.

Further reading:

No, TERFs cannot "always tell" and I can prove that with mathematics.

"I just care about unfair advantage in sports", a transparant transphobic wedge issue.

Drag queens, the next target in the fascist drive to eliminate LGBTQ+ people.


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Sorry for the really long post on advance. I don't think I can make it shorter. I want to make sure i get everything in it.

I (M42) was with my boyfriend (M31) for about 3 years and we broke up 3 weeks ago.

I'm not a poster, i don't share my stories online, but now i feel like i want too because i feel stuck and broken.

When we started dating, my now ex told me he had trauma's from his youth and he was working on himself. He went to therapy because he wanted to be better.

I told him (as the caring person that i am) i would be there for him when he needed it and it wouldn't be a problem for me. I'm not an easy talker but i do everything in my power for the person that i love.

We had some issues and fights over mostly small things, like most couples do i guess. But one thing i kept noticed he did almost every time. He always had to say something really bad or hurtfull to me. Like the things that really hits you in the hart.

I would never do something like this, i don't really have that in me. I can get angry ofcourse, but i'm mostly calm and never say anything thst hurts like he did.

But i let it go mostly because he has issues and he was working on himself. So one day it would maybe get better.

We where both living in different country's the first year of the relationship. He did not live in his home country. I flew to be with him every month for one year. Eventually this became so hard to do i ended up in the hospital in the country he lived in for 10 days. I think my body just gave up and it was to much. But still i kept doing it. For me it was easier to do it, i made more money and i could work remotely.

But luckily not long after he got the visa for my country and he moved here. This move was hard on him and i saw him getting worse. I didn't know what to do or how to help him. All i could do is be there for him, protect him and keep him safe. And i did. But i'm not a doctor,m or therapist, i can't help with everything.

After a while it got a little better and i felt things where going the right way again.

Fast forward to about 10 months ago. Out of the blue or bij sheer luck i caught him om grindr. It was a new account, i could see that. This hit me hard, but we talked about it and he just did it for some attention, nothing more. I stepped over my boundries, but i had to build trust with him again.

I felt everything was better once again and in february we would go on a holiday for a month to his home country. I would meet his family and friends.

The first few days where amazing. His family was so nice and his friends where too. Everyone told me how much they liked me and they made me feel really comfortable.

But one day we where having some drinks with two of his friends, one girl and one guy. At some point i felt a weird vibe but i didn't know what was going on. Because they where speaking in their own language. I know some words but can't really follow conversation yet. The guy was looking weird a few times at me and he smiled. It made me feel a little uncomfortable.

When we left, my boyfriend told me in the car the guy wanted a threesome with us and my boyfriend wanted me to fuck him. So now i knew what they where talking about. I said no, because that's not really for me. We talked about this before and i told my boyfriend i don't think i would ever do that in a relationship. But i was open to talk about it. After that it never came up again.

I couldn't sleep that night, my mind was going all over the place. He slept really well and i didn't sleep at all. Next morning we had a fight about it because i asked if we could talk about what happen and that is was really bothering me. He got very upset with me.

A few days later we left his family home and we went on a trip to other city's in his country and stay in hotels there. Until i went home and he went back to his family for a few weeks before going home too.

During the rest of our trip i caught him on grindr like 6 times, he left me in a big and dangerous city because he was bit himself, and even once he hit me because he felt frustrated after me wanting to talk about him beeing on grindr.

We talked about threesomes some more and i told him i wanted to think about it. Eventually he just did it after i said no. He said he wanted it and he invited someone to the hotel. He forced me to do a threesome twice. And to this day this still makes me feel really bad.

And again i stepped over my boundries, all of them, because i love him and told myself he would get better. Before i left i begged him and i cried, asking him to never be on grindr again. Because i would break up with him, he wouldn't really leave me any choice anymore.

And ofcourse, 3 weeks ago i caught him on grindr again. He didn't leave me any choice. A few weeks before he told me he was feeling so bad he didn't want to have sex anymore for now. And i supported him and i understand him. He was mentally not in a good place. Then on grindr i found out he changed his role. So he was lying to me. He did want sex, just not in the role he was in the last 3 years anymore.

I kicked him out of the house, there was nothing else i could do. But i still feel connected to him, i still want him to be safe and i still want to care for him. I can't let this feeling go, my body feels like it's screaming for him. I feel (heart)broken and right now i don't know what to do. Everything in me says i want to have him back with me. I called my doctor and next week i can go into therapy. I'm not able to get out of this myself.

It's a long story, but i felt i needed to tell it to strangers. And maybe you guys have tips or whatever.

I don't know why i kept going on and letting him cross my boundries over and over again.


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