Okay I want to talk about this reply I saw in the notes:
straight trans people exist, and i literally just saw one a few minutes ago saying it hurt to encounter this kind of rhetoric. our pride *has* to be more intersectional than this—otherwise it’s just shaming.
I think @7ff00's reply is conflating the word "straight" with the word "heterosexual" out of a gross ignorance of cultural and historical context, and to what end?
The term straight means strictly adhering to conventional morality. The term only came to be associated with the concept of heterosexuality in the 1940s because conventional morality aligned itself against non-heterosexuals, declared us deviants, and criminalized our existence.
From etymonline.com: straight(adj.2)
"conventional," especially "heterosexual," 1941, a secondary sense evolved from straight (adj.1) in one of its senses, probably suggested by the stock phrase straight and narrow (implying path, road, or way), "course of conventional morality and law-abiding behavior" (ca. 1794), which is based on a misreading of Matthew vii.14 (where the gate is actually strait); another influence seems to be strait-laced.
And now, conventional morality has aligned itself against the trans community, declared us deviants, and criminalized our existence.
I know a lot of us have been avoiding reading the news, but it's important y'all know that Trump's new counterterrorism strategy specifically blames trans activism for the assassination of Charlie Kirk (based on zero evidence) and then goes on to specifically equate pro-trans activism with terrorism.
https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/it-could-happen-here/trumps-new-counterterrorism-jmNlAMX_gs3/
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/06/trump-counterterrorism-strategy-vows-to-counter-violent-left-wing-extremists-with-transgender-ideology-00909284
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/05/trumps-new-counterterrorism-strategy-focuses-on-combatting-transgender-ideology/
It's fucking bad out there, y'all.
I've been saying for years that one of the biggest roadblocks to queer solidarity is people nitpicking the constantly evolving language we are allowed to use to discuss threats to our community, in a way that effectively derails any conversation that directly addresses the ACTUAL threats to our community.
And although I give @7ff00 the benefit of the doubt and believe that the reply was not written in bad faith, that's exactly what the reply is doing in this post — another derailment that turns a conversation about fighting conservative authoritarianism into yet another pointless semantics debate.
Trans people will never be "straight" no matter how heterosexual some of us may be. All LGBTQIA+ people will always be faggots in the eyes of the oppressor.
At least Gritty's managed to figure that out.