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this post was submitted on 25 May 2026
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The internet does it sometimes. I've seen "Gay" used to describe straight trans people (Which felt transphobic to me, but it was a trans person doing it so what the fuck do I know) and nonbinary people in general.
The thing about being straight trans is that no matter what you society determines that what you're doing is non-conforming on both sexuality and gender. They might be "straight" but society considers it gay. In a sense it's both a reclamation of words, a statement of pride in who you are, and also an elimination of the power of the word to be used negatively against you.
Another factor is probably that at some point the straight trans person has been with gay non-trans people, and in some cases they were gay non-trans before they realised they were ever trans. So then it all just becomes a mess of semantics and they generally don't care about the terms other than being acknowledged as the gender they identify as.
In a way "gay" becomes a catchall for all things non-conforming when used this way.
Very interesting phenomenon. Pretty dialectical, that is. Cool, and good to know!