Nowhere GirlThe widespread assumption that trans gender identities are inherently sexual whereas cis identities are not, despite the fact trans identities tend to arise at the same childhood age and before any form of sexual interest or development occurs, is testament to cis-het people's insistence that theirs are the only "natural" identities and everybody else's are "fetishes," as well as their tendency to view gender in inherently sexual terms due to patriarchal programming.
Jennifer Kayla | Theogrin 🦊This is one more reason why I consider the genuinely fetishistic worship of 'normality' to be not just troubling but actively harmful.
Once you begin to think that there's only one way to be, every variance, every difference becomes equal, and in most cases gets framed as sexual. (Which speaks ever so highly of our society's deranged views on sexuality, huh?)
And it's far from just us! How often in the past were the eminently fictional proclivities of BIPOC folks used in the past to justify rage and murder, with broadsheets reporting on roving gangs? (How common, today...?) Or neurodivergence portrayed as a continual threat, typically with sexual fears as a side note?
Yes, so much of this is due to society's horrific conflation of sex, sexuality and gender. But... when the hatemongers know what they're doing, this also feels like one more verse in a songbook which has never failed to inspire.