Not only is this little “movement” reactionary, I’m pretty sure it’s also very much about trolling.

I wrote a little story the other day on Medium about falling for a sizzling hot trans guy. Sort of. On YouTube.

I was trying to make the point that as a cis gay man, falling for a trans guy is normal. Why wouldn’t I fall for a hot guy who’s my type? Especially if he’s out of my league, which this YouTube guy certainly is.

I wanted to observe that somebody’s sexual orientation is what gets them attracted to other people, whether that sexual orientation is gay or straight. I wanted to observe the denying experienced attraction is transphobia by classic definition.

My story got a pretty decent reaction on Medium, and the Los Angeles Blade picked it up for its opinion section, but when I promoted it on Twitter, I got trolled.

The #SuperStraight crowd came out to object. They clearly hadn’t read my essay, hitting back with memes that were really not on point. I stopped responding almost right away, but not before I noticed they seemed mostly to be having fun. They weren’t trying to have discourse, they were poking fun, caricaturing the language of the LGBTQ movement and the progressive left in general. That seemed to be almost the entire point… to have a few chucks at the expense of people they evidently very much dislike.

It’s sad, though hardly shocking.