People should stop identifying as ‘super-straight’
New trend divides social media users
March 14, 2021
Recently, people have been identifying themselves as “super-straight” on TikTok. The term “super-straight” is meant to refer to a preference of the opposite sex with the exclusion of transgender people according to insider.
“Super-straight” shouldn’t have been a trend in the first place, and personally I find it disgusting that people are identifying themselves with it. Instead of telling people their opinion is wrong, we need to educate them so they can learn from their mistakes. Society needs to let people grow and be open minded rather than putting them down.
This all started when TikToker Kyle Royce created a video of himself talking about how he would only date the opposite gender, women, who were born women. Apparently, Royce has created a “new sexuality” that has proved to be controversial all over social media.
Royce says he identifies as “super-straight” which is his “sexuality.” He started this trend because he was tired of people calling him transphobic and didn’t want to be labeled with an adverse term. Royce insists he wasn’t trying to be hateful towards others, yet created a negative atmosphere on TikTok, Twitter and Reddit.
Currently, people are identifying themselves as “super-straight” and describing themselves as a part of the LGTBQ+ community. This created a lot of disagreement about identifying as “super-straight” and whether or not it is a sexuality.
Identifying as “super-straight” is offensive to the LGTBQ+ community since it’s another way to be transphobic. As someone who isn’t a part of the LGTBQ+ community, this whole “super-straight” drama is horrific and frustrates me because everyone is hateful towards people who don’t identify as straight or assigned gender. Society has to realize that we can’t demand people to be something they’re not and let them express themselves.
Humans are attracted to types of people, it’s in our nature. But it’s at the point where people are spiteful towards the LGTBQ+ community. It doesn’t sit right with me that we’re still stuck in this world where people still can’t be themselves without being judged.
Social media has become such a negative environment to the point where everyone is constantly hating and arguing. Soon enough, younger generations will be exposed to these sorts of conversations, the older generations should be setting positive examples. Overall, society should start normalizing different sexualities. Not everyone is going to identify as straight or the gender they were born with, but we need to start accepting people for who they are because everyone is human.
James Magwenzi • Jun 24, 2023 at 11:24 pm
That’s like me saying if you don’t support the football team that I do, then it means you hate me. If I say I date only biological women and that’s my preference it does not automatically mean I hate anybody, to be more specificly trans people.
Me stating who I love to sleep with absolutely doesn’t say anything about trans people, because all I did was simply tell you what I want. It’s as simple as that.
So far you haven’t stated what was said or done that was hateful towards them. If it was a movement that commits violence, torture and the use of derogatory insults against them I would understand why you would call it hatred.
The reality is you can’t shame a person into having a relationship with a trans person when they don’t want to. There is a video that came out of a trans woman claiming that it is discriminatory to not want to date a trans person until that person got called out by surprisingly other members of the lgbt community that it is not. Besides, you can’t force a person into loving a person they don’t wanna be with, that is not how relationships work. The easiest way to be miserable is to date someone whom you know you don’t really love.
Only date a person who wants to be with you and only date a person who YOU want to be with. If I want to marry a woman born as a biological woman only that’s my choice, this is what it is.
T • Feb 21, 2022 at 3:43 pm
There is nothing wrong with being super straight. It’s really an issue of consent. People have the right to decide for themselves what their (consensual) sexual boundaries are. No one has any right to press them on said boundaries. It’s in the same neighborhood as the “conversion therapy” types, in that you’re trying to persuade someone to engage in sexual activity that they’re uncomfortable with.
A subset of the trans activists have pushed this idea that it’s transphobic to have trans-exclusionary dating practices. No, transphobic would be wanting to strip trans people of their human rights. It would be transphobic to deny them employment, financial services, housing, equality before the law on the basis of being trans. Dating is an entirely different subject as it involves the intimate sharing of your body with another person.
KV • Feb 15, 2022 at 1:15 pm
You said. ”Identifying as “super-straight” is offensive to the LGTBQ+ community since it’s another way to be transphobic.” But you never explained exactly HOW it IS transphobic. There is no built in hatred of trans people if you are not attracted to them any more than there is hatred towards women if you are only attracted to men. I think most people would agree that we don’t chose to whom we are attracted.