Sexism: A common ancestor of homophobia, transphobia, and transmisogyny
Content Warning: The Discourse, homophobia, transphobia, and transmisogyny. Have you ever noticed discourse around transgender people and gay or queer people sound so similar? I remember when same-sex marriage was the hot button issue of the civil rights debate™ and that people said that SSM would erode away established social traditions and customs, confuse children, destroy society as we know, and allow *silly thing* like marrying your lawnmower to be possible. Yet none of that happened, so what was all the fuss about? It was homophobia, which is a belief that gay, queer, non-heterosexual people, relationships, and sexuality were wrong and inferior to heterosexual or straight relationships. People shouted "marriage is between a man and a woman" just like how people shout "there are only two genders, male and female!" Like, you may have thought those things to be true, but they're not. You can learn, people can and should change. Definitions are not tradi