Why the TikTok trend “superstraight” is super stupid and pure hate
How straight cis men gloss over their transphobia for themselves and others
What kind of men are there who say they would never date a trans woman? They call themselves “superstraight”. Our author explains why this is transphobic in his Saturday comment *.
Sometimes, when I'm super crazy, I imagine a world where most people are queer. A world in which it is quite normal to be queer in every schoolyard, in every subway, at every traffic light - if only because they (that is, because we) are in the majority. Of course, there would still be a few straight people in such a world. And because queers are usually no better than straight people in real life, these straight people would have a hard time in my mind game world. You would hear words like "Dreckshete" and "F **** f *** er".Because I consider myself an empathic person who cares about justice, I imagine that in such a world I would have a few straight friends and go to Hetero Pride Day with them to vote for equal rights for heterosexuals to demonstrate. Yeah, pretty crazy, I know. In the last few days one could get dizzy outside my little head when asked who is the majority and who is the minority here; and who needs to be protected from whom.
A new term is making the rounds in commercial social media such as TikTok: superstraight, i.e. almost superhetero. I think I have roughly understood what is straight over the years. But superstraight, what's that supposed to be? Well, recently men who say that they like women, but not trans women, call themselves superstraight.
My first impulse was: yes, why not? Because, in a purely logical way, that would mean that the standard assumption is that straight men want women, including trans women. And only these rather special, so to speak, not entirely normal heteros, who are super-straight, they just lack something, because they do not desire trans women. That makes sense to a certain extent, at first glance.
But if you take a closer look at what the superstraight community wants, it can be adventurous or even breakneck. Even if you try to ignore the fact for a moment that superstraight logos have already appeared on forums like 4chan with a Nazi rune-stylized "SS" (traditional emblem of Hitler's Schutzstaffel), the question arises: What are they doing with this new term?
He claims to have been invented (as far as this can still be said watertight in the widely ramified network) a guy who calls himself Kyleroyce and who postulated in a viral TikTok video: “I invented a new sexuality. Straight men are called transphobic because… I wouldn't date a trans woman. So I'm super straight. I only date the opposite sex, women who were born women. So you can no longer say that I am transphobic - because that is just my sexuality. "
Huh, what do you think? I think that as a gay or lesbian person you will quickly have to go so far that desire can hardly be controlled. (Anything else would mean that we could be made “straight again”, as supporters of so-called “conversion therapies” claim and demand.) That actually meant that a few gay men now also call themselves supergay , in the sense of: Men who like men, but not trans men.
The perfidious thing about the process is the following: These people, regardless of whether they are super-straight or super-gay, claim a certain protection status from a minority for themselves on the one hand - in order to exclude trans people in the same breath - the minority who are still is under fire like no other. Of course, nobody can (and does not want to) force you to like people with blue eyes or blood group B or trans people - but why should this be so categorically and all-validly excluded? But okay, even if you categorically exclude it: Why is that something that you would have to carry outward in the sense of a politically organized community? That goes even further than people who write in their Grindr profile that certain skin colors are undesirable for them.And here, too, the question arises: Why is that the one sentence that you want the dating world to know about you?
Kyleroyce openly admits he invented the term "superstraight" to evade allegations that he was transphobic. What a maneuver! If you watch the video, you can feel the audacity with which he presents it. He pretends to be the victim. The term “Superstraight” suggests that this is a minority that needs special protection from trans people and their evil, politically correct allies. We Kyleroyce ignore the fact that they actually represent a widespread prevailing attitude towards their categorical exclusion of trans people.
Besides, what does super mean? Super suggests: best. Anyone who is superstraight is, in this dire logic, the perfection of heterosexual. Purebred straight. I (from my perspective as a cis man) believe that there can be people who do not want trans people - without being trans-hostile. I believe that can be. But I also believe that anyone who writes on their t-shirts “I don't want trans people” is definitely very trans-hostile. And what else is this offensively disguised as defensive "I'm superstraight" supposed to be - if not such a digital hate shirt?
* The opinion of the authors of columns, comments or guest articles does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the editorial team. (so if a author is seething it doesn't mean the editorial team is mmkay?)
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