A recent movement to redefine classifications of being straight is nothing more than a hateful attempt at being edgy.
Over the past week, social media sites saw a significant rise of the term “super straight,” a so-called distinction of heterosexuality that strictly limits a person’s attraction to people assigned male or female at birth. In other words, purposefully excluding transgender people.
The original video was posted on Feb. 21, 2021, by TikTok user kyleroyce and amassed over two million likes before it was deleted and reuploaded to youtube. Subsequent twitter pages, flag designs, color choices and further explanations followed suit.
“I’ve made a new sexuality, straight men get called transphobic because I wouldn’t date a trans woman,” kyleroyce said, “Now, I’m super straight. I only date the opposite gender, women, that are born women. So, you can’t say I’m transphobic now because that is just my sexuality.”
The forum site 4chan quickly took hold of the term with a group of neo-Nazis utilizing the ideology to “‘drive a wedge’ in the LGBTQ+ community,” according to Insider.
The group created Nazi imagery associated with the term “super straight” by brandishing the Nazi paramilitary group Schutzstaffel’s “SS” logo with black and orange colors.
Now here we are. A group of people self-righteous and hateful enough to create a pseudo-sexuality managed to blossom into a vaguely tied neo-Nazi anti-LGBTQ+ campaign.
In all reality, even before its neo-Nazi affiliation, the movement was already rooted in LGBTQ+ hatred.
The movement’s only goal is to make a mockery. Baselessly calling “super straight” a sexuality dismisses the mental struggle of sexual frustration and the journey it takes to realize one’s sexual identity. Blatantly, it’s inconsiderate at best and cruel at worst.
Those who have abided by the new term have done so to prove a point. A moot point, at that. However, with the aim of redefining transphobia, they became transphobic. To specifically exclude transgender people from attraction purely because they are transgender is no more or less transphobic than saying you’d never date a trans person just because they’re trans.
The specific need to voice a disapproval of trans people perpetuates an un-needed hatred. This hatred has no place on a campus that is meant to promote inclusivity.
Those who identify by the term, jokingly or not, only give us greater insight into their arrogance. There are far more productive, effective and considerate ways to have a sexual preference. Mocking the validity of being transgender and other sexualities by claiming “super straight” as a new sexuality only mobilizes a fleet of hate-seeking heathens.
It is abundantly clear that individuals perpetuating this movement are doing so maliciously and ignorantly. In their effort to “prove a point,” they’ve only made their lack of compassion and understanding apparent. Even before its neo-Nazi ties, the term is only fueled by scorn.
I urge those who have associated or supported the term, even with complacency, to take a deeper look into what it means and how it affects the students around them. What’s the point of this all if we can’t be compassionate towards one another? I don’t know otherwise.
Terminology regarding LGBTQ community has been updated
Carter Kolpitcke can be reached at arg-opinion@uidaho.edu or @carterkolpitcke on Twitter
Tarja Makinen-Potts
I have no problem with super straight. I am a 65year old , so called cis female. I do not like the term cis , have never given anyone permission to refer to me that way, but it was shoved down my throat. So yes I am fine with super straight. I believe people have a right to choose whom they have relations with also..... novel idea! There is nothing hateful about defining ones self as super straight , no more than there is about defining ones self as gay , lesbian or trans. What there is however one group trying to embrace power to dictate to another.... a form of bullying.
Rachael
Bs. Why can't straight people only like real men and women? Why do we have to include trans people in our options to date? They are not straight. A woman,once a man, is not straight. Super straight does not include trans because they are not apart of straight sexually. Why is this author so determined to eradicate straight people?
Waffenjihadi
Superphobic spotted ⬛
Waffenjihadi
Based cope harder ⬛
peter
" To specifically exclude transgender people from attraction purely because they are transgender is no more or less transphobic than saying you’d never date a trans person just because they’re trans. " Why is it, that straight people are not allowed to exclude transgender from their attraction, but gay and lesbian people can do it all the time? Gay and lesbian exclude the opposite sex from attraction just because their gender. Wouldnt that make them sexists? Whats the difference? If you want pure equality with all genders than you cant say "straight cant exclude transgender from attraction, but gay and lesbian can". You have to say "straight CAN exclude transgender from attraction" because THATS equality.