My SuperGay Crush on a Super Sizzlin Trans Dude

On the toxic absurdity of SuperStraight

James Finn
Prism & Pen
Published in
5 min readMar 12, 2021

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Which one of these hot guys is trans? Does it matter? (Photo licensed from Adobe Stock.)

Early this month, the supposed sexual-orientation label “SuperStraight” trended on forums like TikTok, Twitter, and 4chan. People claimed this new “sexuality” describes straight people who only want to date or have relationships with cisgender people of the opposite sex. On March 4, Urban Dictionary added attraction…

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James Finn
Prism & Pen

James Finn is an LGBTQ columnist, a former Air Force intelligence analyst, an alumnus of Act Up NY, and an agented but unpublished novelist.