Recycled Homophobia
A Twitter thread by @ImplausibleGrrl has a large collection of examples of how todayâs transphobia recycles homophobia from the past. I have sourced the newspaper clippings from there with permission.
The table gives examples of mirrored transphobic and homophobic fearmongering.
Transphobia | Homophobia |
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âIâm frightened about [âŚ] the ability of individuals to safeguard children in society [âŚ] a predatorâs charter, a tool to groom a whole society.â1 (image) | âItâs grooming children for sex grooming them to change their identityâ2 (image) |
âthey never meant it when they said thereâs no conflict between womenâs rights & trans rightsâ3 (image) âWhy are we allowing trans rights to eliminate womenâs rights?â4 (image) | âWhy does tolerance demand that we forfeit our rights?â5 (image) |
âAnd âsheâ still dates women so I canât imagine why her female teammates are uncomfortable in the locker roomâ6 (image) | âa homosexual being in a manâs locker room [âŚ] make heterosexual men uncomfortableâ5 (image) |
âindulge your fetish in the comfort of your own home [âŚ] Itâs a paraphiliaâ7 (image) | âgayness is a bedroom fetish, nothing moreâ8 (image) |
ânarcissist, psychotic trans activists [âŚ] hog the visibility and obscure everything but themselvesâ 9 (image) | âall homosexuals were by definition narcissists [âŚ] seen as a form of autoerotismâ10 (image) |
âman [âŚ] with a crossdressing fetish [âŚ]â11 (image) | âHomosexuality is a type of fetishâ12 (image) |
âTrans is a cultâ13 (image) | âhomosexuality is a cult [âŚ] believing it to be the thing to do to be popularâ14 (image) |
âWhat rights donât trans people currently have?â15 (image) | âI for one would like to know the explicit ârightsâ the homosexuals want that they currently donât haveâ16 (image) |
âno basis in biological realityâ17 (image) | âit corresponds to a biological realityâ18 (image) |
ânearly all of them grow out of gender confusionâ19 (image) | âthese kids will grow out of it itâs just a passing phaseâ20 (image) |
âTrans women [âŚ] theyâre mentally illâ21 (image) | âthey must be crazy and are in need of psychiatric helpâ20 (image) |
âtrans religion IS the patriarchyâ22 (image) | âhomosexuality is actually a religion [âŚ] the colorful banner is one of its symbolsâ23 (image) |
âaccused me of being a transphobe [âŚ] that label is nonsense used to silence those who speak up in defense of basic common senseâ24 (image) | âhomophobe â a politically correct slur used by those who now consider common sense to be hateâ25 (image) |
âTrans donât need trans rights because they are already equal and have the same rights as everyone elseâ26 (image) | âHomosexuals already have the same rights as every other American citizen in this countryâ27 (image) |
âIf any man can be a woman, the word woman becomes meaninglessâ28 (image) | âbecome merely words with no meaning [âŚ] gender would become nothingâ29 (image) |
âTheir nazi accusations are pure projectionâ30 (image) | âIf any group in America displays tactics similar to [âŚ] the Nazis, it is the so-called gay rights movement [âŚ] The mainstream homosexual lobby, in true Hitlerian style, has targeted our childrenâ31 (image) |
âTrans people arenât demanding equal rights they already have those. What they want are EXTRA rights. Special rights.â32 (image) | âmilitant homosexuals demanding special rights and protected class statusâ33 (image) |
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References
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Twitter (@FemmeLoves) 2021-09-03 (link to tweet)
Iâm just frightened about qu**r theory, and trans ideology.
Iâm frightened about what it is doing to the ability of individuals to safeguard children in society.
I am frightened that it is a predatorâs charter, a tool to groom a whole society.
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The Windsor Star, (Windsor, Ontario, Canada) 2015-02-27
As if that wasnât bad enough, both McNaughton and Nicholls, along with another PC leadership candidate, Conservative MP Patrick Brown from Barrie, then went to address and meet with protesters opposed to the new curriculum, the first one since same-sex marriage became legal and sexting became a thing. Hereâs a taste of the protesters. âWeâre going to have⌠little lesbian and homosexual minionsâŚ. Itâs grooming children for sex grooming them to change their identity to become homosexuals,â one woman told The Toronto Star. Iâm at a loss. How do you respond to that?
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Twitter (@TroonPlanet) 2023-04-08 (link to tweet)
The trans meltdown in the UK bc womenâs sex-based rights have been strengthened proves what we already knew: they never meant it when they said âThereâs no conflict betwn womenâs rights & trans rights.â All along, what they really meant was âRedefine sex rights as gender rights.â
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Twitter (@BreannaMorello) 2022-10-03 (link to tweet)
Why are women and girls being silenced when they vocalize their discomfort for biological boys/men entering our bathrooms and locker rooms?
Why are we allowing âtrans rightsâ to eliminate womenâs rights?
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The Odessa American (Odessa, Texas) 2007-02-22
ously agree to a great extent. I start to disagree, however, when being tolerant means I have to give up my rights. One commentator said heterosexual men should tolerate homosexuals in the locker room or risk being labeled homophobic. He pointed out that a homosexual in a manâs locker room could act appropriately and not make sex an issue.
By that same logic, couldnât a straight man be in a womanâs locker room, act appropriately and not make sex an issue? The answer, of course, is no. It wouldnât be right to subject women in a locker room to the presence of a heterosexual man who may or may not find them sexually attractive.
So why does it have to be a given that a homosexual being in a manâs locker room shouldnât make heterosexual men uncomfortable? Many talking about Hardaway last week seemed to be saying that itâs not a problem to subject men in a locker room to the presence of a homosexual man who may or may not find them sexually attractive.
As for myself, I see no problem with people of the same gender sharing a locker room regardless of sexual orientation. But that doesnât make it right for everyone, and Iâm not egotistical enough to say my view is the only right view.
What Hardaway said was wrong. He sounded like a homophobic Neanderthal. But what if he had approached the question a little differently?
What if he had just said, âIâm uncomfortable being nude around homosexual men.â
Yes, some promoting tolerance would still vilify Hardaway and say condemning homosexuals for their sexual orientation is wrong. But does that mean a person canât protect their own right to privacy?
Most of us would agree that we have to respect the rights of othersâthatâs true whether weâre talking race, religion or sexual orientation.
My question is this: Why does tolerance demand that we forfeit our rights? Why do we strip the modesty of one in the name of tolerance of others?
As an old college professor used to say, âYour right to swing your fist stops at the end of my nose.â
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Twitter (@RitaPanahi) 2022-03-20 (link to tweet)
And âsheâ still dates women so I canât imagine why her female teammates are uncomfortable in the locker room. Must be bigots.
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Twitter (@BraddockBessie) 2021-12-05 (link to tweet)
If you want to indulge your fetish in the comfort of your own home, go ahead. Fill your boots.
Do not bring your kink into the public sphere, & by doing so, force others to participate in it.
Thereâs nothing vulnerable, oppressed, stunning or brave about AGP. Itâs a paraphilia.
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Davis County Clipper, (Bountiful, UT) 1996-04-23
Several recent writers have declared the right of gays to marry. We all have the right to be as perverse as we want to be behind closed doors, but that doesnât mean that government has to officially sanction our perversity. Most Americans have no problem with gays or gayness so long as they donât rub their strangeness in our faces. Letâs get real â gayness is a bedroom fetish, nothing more. What I do in my bedroom stays in my bedroom, and I suggest that others do the same.
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Twitter (@ConceptualJames) 2023-04-01 (link to tweet)
The lunatic, narcissist, psychotic trans activists are the only visible trans people to most of the public most of the time. This makes the âTrans Day of Visibilityâ badly perverse because literal narcissistic psychopaths hog the visibility and obscure everything but themselves.
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History and Psyche pp 49â67 The Narcissistic Homosexual: Genealogy of a Myth
No one was more guilty of self-love in the minds of the first psychoanalysts than the homosexual, and narcissism was in consequence from the moment of its analytic debut until well into the 1970s inextricably intertwined with homosexuality. Not all narcissists were thought to be homosexual, but it was long an analytic and popular commonplace that all homosexuals were by definition narcissists. This was so in the most concrete of terms: narcissism (self-love) was seen as a form of autoerotism (sexual self-love) and, as another colleague of Freudâs once put it in an unchallenged non sequitur, âintensive autoerotism must lead to homosexuality.â In discussing homosexuality, analysts were literalists, seeing only sameness and habitually collapsing any distinctions between self and other. The intertwining of narcissism and
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Twitter (@docchai2022) 2023-04-06 (link to tweet)
This individual is a misogynist man with borderline personality disorder and a crossdressing fetish. We need to separate gender dysphorics (real trans) from dick bullies with personality disorders. (Fake trans). We are walking on eggshells for borderlines. Letâs make it stop.
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The Central New Jersey Home News (New Brunswich, New Jersey) 2005-03-28
I would like to express my thoughts on homosexuality in response to the âMother of a Lesbian. Homosexuality is a type of fetish. A fetish by definition is an object or bodily part whose real or fantasized presence is psychologically necessary for sexual gratification. For a lesbian it would be a femaleâs body parts, for a homosexual, a maleâs body parts. Fetishes are developed in people when they
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Twitter (@TheSullis) 2023-04-10 (link to tweet)
Trans is a cult. A dangerous noncey one!!
Needs sorting by proper adults. Women need to be protected
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The Tampa Tribune (Tampa, Florida) 1977-11-13
HERNANDOâI am 66 years old. I always thought, until recently, that our country was founded on democratic principles, the majority rule and freedom of expression without being harassed. Now that seems to get one in trouble.
By the vote in Miami (against the ordinance for âhomosexual rightsâ), one could see what the majority of the people wanted. Is that an outdated idea?
Just who does the Florida Citrus Commission believe buys orange juice? Iâm sure the majority of the people who do arenât homosexual.
I think homosexuality is a cult. We all know there have always been homosexuals, but now there are many drawn into it just to be in something new. That strange quirk in their personality has been made that way by themselves, believing it to be the thing to do to be popular.
Why should the majority be intimidated by the few, who, when they appear on television, make one sick in the stomach.
When the minority can run the majority, our good old USA will go down the drain. What we need are more Anitas to stand up for what is right.
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Twitter (@thegaywhostrayd) 2023-03-30 (link to tweet)
What rights donât trans people currently have?
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The Herald-Palladium (Saint Joseph, MI) 1993-05-07
I for one would like to know the explicit ârightsâ the homosexuals want that they currently donât have â explicit, not generalities.
Please, if you will, the rights of the individual are not in themselves an acceptable reason to condone the homosexual/lesbian actions anymore than that reason is acceptable for many other activities. We all have the right to smoke, but when we enter a no-smoking zone we relinguish that right.
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Twitter (@SwipeWright) 2022-07-03 (link to tweet)
Remember, activists are using the existence of the white box below in order to argue that the blue and pink areas are meaningless âsocial constructsâ with no basis in biological reality.
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The Record (Hackensack, New Jersey) 2009-04-23
point. Their conclusion? âThe interests of the child must outweigh the exercise of freedom by adults. Marriage is thus not only a contractual recognition of a coupleâs love. It is a demanding framework with rights and obligations designed to welcome the child and provide for his or her harmonious development.â It recommended traditional marriage be preserved because it âcorresponds to a biological reality.â
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Twitter (@LukePSulz) 2023-02-23 (link to tweet)
The tran community will do anything to protect their right to confuse and drug children.
As the song says âthe children are the futureâ âŚ
âŚand trans adults KNOW this means they have to get to kids early because nearly all of them grow out of gender confusion during puberty.
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The News Journal (Wilmington, Delaware) 1990-01-28
âPeople donât want to acknowledge that gay and lesbian youth exist,â he says. âThe conventional wisdom has been that these kids will grow out of it, that itâs just a passing phase or that they must be crazy and are in need of psychiatric help.â
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Twitter (@SStricklandMMA) 2023-03-28 (link to tweet)
Real women are beautiful. Trans women are ugly as hell. Oh, did I forget to mention theyâre mentally ill too!
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Twitter (@Vivian_Belli) 2022-07-01 (link to tweet)
Monty, mate, the trans religion IS the patriarchy. (Which of course you know, because you are the patriarchy too). But yeah, help make #IStandWithJKRowling trend.
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Herald and Review (Decatur, Illinois) 2018-07-14
A lawsuit arguing that homosexuality is a religion and that members of Congress who displayed a rainbow flag outside their offices violated the Bill of Rights is entering its second year as it makes its way through an appeals court. The government lawyer rep- resenting Democratic Reps. Susan Davis and Alan Lowenthal of California, Rep. Donald Beyer, D-Va., and Rep. Earl Blumenauer, D-Ore., filed a motion on June 18 that asks the District of Columbia Circuit Court to uphold a lower courtâs decision to dismiss the lawsuit. The motion contends that the case by the plaintiff, Tennessee lawyer Chris Sevier, is âpatently frivolous and its outcome is certain.â âI will fight this frivolous lawsuit no matter how long it takes,â Davis said in a statement. âIt just shows that attacks on equality and the LGBTQ community still exist and we will stand up to them at every turn. It also shows that the Pride Flag is needed more than ever. Iâm confident the appellate court will rule on the side of equalityâ A year ago â just after San Diegoâs gay pride parade and festival concluded â Sevier sued the members of Congress, claiming that the rainbow flag violates the Constitutionâs separation of church and state. He argued that homosexuality is actually a religion and that the colorful banner is one if its symbols. He sought $1 in damages, for members to be barred from displaying the flags and for the court to declare homosexuality a religion. The trial court dismissed the lawsuit, and Sevier appealed to the D.C. Circuit. Sevier said that the lower court âabused their discretion.â âThe government canât engage in activities, directly or indirectly, that signify to the taxpayers that this is a religion that weâre en- year dorsing,â he said over the phone. The lawyer representing the House members argues in the motion that the lower courtâs decision to dismiss the case should be affirmed because the âemotional discomfortâ Sevier experienced by seeing the flag isnât a valid injury and that he also failed to establish that he had a valid claim. âMr. Sevierâs claims are so clearly meritlessâ that nothing significant will be achieved if they are more deeply evaluated, the membersâ motion says. While the lawsuit continues, the rainbow flag Davis displayed outside her office alongside the California and U.S. flags has been replaced. The original pennant was given to Delores Jacobs when she left her position as the CEO of the San Diego LGBT Community Center last month after 17 years in the position. A new rainbow flag now hangs in its place. Sevier has a series of lawsuits that target same-sex marriage and is advocating for several bills in state legislature that undermine same-sex marriages. One heâs advocating for in South Carolina defines marriage as exclu- sively between one man and one woman and everything else as âparody marriageâ and â part of the religion of Secular Humanism.â
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Twitter (@MattWalshBlog) 2023-04-10 (link to tweet)
Ana, you have repeatedly accused me of being a transphobe in the past. Are you starting to see how that label is nonsense used to silence those who speak up in defense of basic common sense?
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The Courier (Waterloo, Iowa) 2007-12-02
Those who rebut my âintolerantâ letter will themselves be completely intolerant concerning my expressed opinion. They will call me a âhomophobeâ â a politically correct slur used by those who now consider common sense to be hate.
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Twitter (@mtgreenee) 2023-03-30 (link to tweet)
Trans donât need trans rights because they are already equal and have the same rights as everyone else.
Trans people can get driverâs licenses just like everyone else.
Trans people go to schools and receive education just like everyone else.
Trans people can get a job if theyâŚ
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Albuquerque Journal (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1993-03-15
RE: ⌠âSENATE Hastily Passes Gay Rights Bill,â I am appalled at the lack of moral fiber exhibited by all the spineless, weak-kneed individuals who voted in favor of such a wicked measure. Homosexuals already have the same rights as every other American citizen in this country: the right to vote, the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. As a businessman I donât know one customer from another regareding their sexual preference and I donât care. However, when the sodomites start marching up and down my street, flaunting their disgraceful behavior, luring my son or daughter into their debauchery, then I care and will assert my rights. Good bless Tom Benavides for calling homosexuality immoral. God bless Joseph Carraro, Emmit Jennings, Skip Vernon and Billy McKibben. Let Aragon boil in his own stew; he is right about the fact that âthis is not a funny matter.â
ROGER KELLY Magdalena
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Twitter (@fairplaywomen) 2021-09-02 (link to tweet)
If any man can be a woman, the word woman becomes meaningless and so do womanâs rights. @helensaxby11.
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Rapid City Journ (Rapid City, SD) 2003-11-09
Q: But how does someoneâs homosexual âmarriageâ threaten everyone elseâs families?
A: Gay activists are not asking for just one homosexual marriage, even though they often personalize it by saying. âDonât you interfere with my family and I wonât interfere with yours.âWhat the activists want is a new national policy saying that no longer is a mom and a dad any better than two moms or two dads. That policy would turn some very important principles upside down:
Marriage would become merely an emotional relationship that is flexible enough to include any grouping of loving adults. If it is fair for two men or two women to marry, why not three, or five. or 17? The terms âhusbandâ and âwifeâ would become merely words with no meaning.
Parenthood would consist of any number of emotionally attached people who care for kids. âMotherâ and âfatherâ would become only words.
Gender would become nothing. The same-sex proposition cannot tolerate the idea that any real deep and necessary differences exist between the sexes. It must rest on a âMister Potato Head theoryâ of gender difference (same core, just interchangeable body parts). If real differences did exist, then men would need women and women would need men. Our children would learn that sexual differences are like mere personality types. Wait until your kids start bring- ing those papers home from school
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Twitter (@KProtein19) 2023-04-10 (link to tweet)
This is a trans advocateâs response to a Black woman criticizing the pathetically absurd ballet man. The racism in the trans community is ramptant, and very on brand. Their nazi accusations are pure projection.
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Statesman Journal (Salem, Oregon) 1994-03-05
If any group in America displays tactics similar to those employed by the Nazis, it is the so-called gay rights movement, which has spawned numerous violent splinter organizations, such as ActUp and Queer Nation. Eric Pollard, a founding member of ActUp, said in a 1991 Washington Blade article that ActUpâs tactics were drawn largely from Hitlerâs book, Mein Kampf (My Struggle). The mainstream homosexual lobby, in true Hitlerian style, has targeted our children for wholesale moral re-education through public school programs labeled with benign-sounding euphemisms such as multiculturalism and diversity.
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Twitter (@JohnJGaltrules) 2023-04-07 (link to tweet)
Itâs past time we call out things for what they are.
Trans people arenât demanding âequal rightsâ they already have those. What they want are EXTRA rights. Special rights.
We have laws against men going into womenâs locker rooms for a reason. Trans people are demanding 1/2
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Arizona Republic (Phoenix, AZ) 1993-12-28
When Denver District Judge H. Jeffrey Bayless ruled Coloradoâs anti-gay Amendment 2 unconstitutional this month, he soothed the soulâs of homosexuals nationwide. But while the battle is won, the war is far from over. The core of the Bayless ruling said that equal participation in the political process is a âfundamentalâ right of citizenship. That right applies to all citizens, not simply those who are members of traditionally protected or âsuspect classes such as racial or ethnic minorities.â of Colorado had a formidable legal challenge to meet: to show at least one compelling state interest for the discriminatory statute. Although the state presented six alleged interests, Bayless was not convinced by even one. The stateâs case both morally and legally was tenuous at best. Reportedly, the human-resources division of the Attorney Generalâs Office refused to even participate in preparing the stateâs defense. Instead, attorneys from other divisions were recruited to do the dirty legal work for the state. They failed, and as a result of the decision, protections in employment To uphold Amendment 2, the state and housing still exist for gays in Aspen, Boulder and Denver. Since the passage of Amendment 2 in Novem- ber of 1992, the towns of Telluride and Crested Butte have passed similar safeguards, and the court has sustained their legality, as well. But this monthâs decision resonates beyond Coloradoâs borders, for it affirms that a fundamental right cannot be put up to a popular vote. It is thus one of the first big steps toward putting out the raging fires that anti-gay opponents have set and fueled with so much success this last year. During the Colorado campaign, the leaders of the anti-gay measure persuaded voters that equal-rights ordinances like those in Aspen and Denver were the work of âmilitant homosexualsâ demanding special rights and protected class status. Voters were bombarded with loaded terms like âquotasâ and âminority status,â and warned that they would be forced to hire or rent to gay men and lesbians. The Amendment 2 forces also tried to divide and conquer, claiming that the âhard-won gains of African-Americans, Hispanics, women, and the disabledâ would be shattered. Most disturbing, they played on fear and hatred, distributing distorted campaign materials to thousands of voters accusing gays of practicing repellent sexual acts and spreading communicable diseases. To these tactics, Bayless responded, âIf one wished to promote family values, action would be taken that is pro-family rather than anti some other group.â Homosexuals didnât get everything they wanted from Bayless, however. He chose not to address the plaintiffâs desire for âsuspect class status,â so gays cannot yet be listed alongside other discriminated groups in the categories of race, gender and nation ality. Bayless has also surely angered some voters in Colorado. Will the forces of bigotry rally and return to the electorate with a more legally defensible version of Amendment 2? The stateâs legal maneuvering has surely helped to chart a course for this endeavor. Still, gays have rightfully cheered the Bayless decision for derailing the momentum of the hate groups in Colorado and across the country. But now is not the time for homosexuals to settle back into complacent closets. In the wake of Amendment 2, Colorado gays have embarked on a campaign of âcoming out,â urging their brothers and sisters to be visible with family, friends and co-workers. This is a vital strategy, for only when the straight society comes to know lesbians and gay men as their neighbors and friends will fear wane and bigotry dissolve. Kathy Deitsch is a writer living in Denver.