#queerphobia

the queer community needs to hype up disability pride month (july btw) while queer pride month is happening. the queer community needs to amplify disabled queer experiences.

the queer community needs to recognize intersex people and how many of us have disabilities related to our intersex variation - and this Still Does Not Prove Eugenicists Right.

The fact that this website is perpetually searching for a queer demographic that they can oppress and say is actually privileged. Trans without dysphoria, aro, polyam, bi, pan, xenogenders, mogai, enben, intersex, afab transfems, etc. I think right now the main target is trans men and transmascs more generally, but it’s the same old cycle and often the same exact people.

The fact that so many of the aphobes’ “arguments” were literally recycled homophobia: “You’re too young to know.” “Asexuality is nsfw.” “Asexuality is just a phase.” “You just say you’re ace because you think it’s quirky.”

The fact that even after the “discourse” stopped, the perpetrators looked back at it as “that cringy phase I had as a teenager” rather than “that time I bullied hundreds of random queer people for their identities and forced them back into the closet.” There were no apologies.

That literally no aspec person who has been on the Internet since before that time was left untouched, and that the entirety of online aspec culture has been forever altered from this hate wave.

That it was a gateway into radfem circles.

if a queer person says something is queer phobic then it probably is

if a disabled person says something is ableist then it probably is

if a jewish person says something is antisemitic then it probably is

if a muslim person says something is islamophobic then it probably is

listen to minorities instead of deciding for yourself what's bigoted

Shout out to the lady who immediately came to my defense.  In the event that you somehow stumble across this strip in the future, I was the lady wearing a Jets hat at the Moynihan Train Hall on June 19th, 2026.  I appreciate you so much.  Keep being that person, you displayed perfectly what being an ally looks like.

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It was a nice day, a really nice day.  We had met up with a bunch of friends from all over in the city, and as the resident New Yorkers, my wife and I got a kick out of the visiting folks taking in the sights.

Since I was out with a group had we were having a good time, I didn’t want to draw too much attention to what went down in the bathroom.  I let everyone know, sure, but I still was laughing it off.

Once I was home though, It hasn’t been able to get out of my mind.

At a base level, it’s a reminder that I don’t pass.  Like, I know I don’t, but it sucks to have it rubbed in my face in that way.

Beyond that however, the idea that I (and other trans folks) are “cursed”, carries a dark implication: that we are fundamentally flawed or damaged human beings; that we are “less than” by nature.

No matter how much I knew this would eventually happen, it genuinely was shocking in the moment and I almost couldn’t believe it.  I’m now acutely aware that this could happen again, at any time, and I might not be as lucky when it does.

What if no one defends me?  What if there’s no one else?  What if the person gets violent?  What if a man follows me in?

There’s a whole new terror that has been baked into my life that I’m now unable to escape from.