Oh Canada you are a land I must eschew
So I was thinking about how gatekeeping logic says that bi people experience homophobia for their attraction to their own gender, ignoring the amount of "het"phobia they experience in the queer community due to their attraction to another gender, and the whole "no, what they're experiencing is biphobia because they're bi" argument, and I thought of something.
One reason people attack trans women is because they perceive them as gay men, dressing as women to trick straight men into having sex with them. Their hostility is born from a fear of gay men. However, no one calls an attack on a trans woman homophobia, they call it what it is, which is transphobia and transmisogyny. Because that's what it is.
If the gatekeepers can understand the logic that "an attack on a trans woman based on her identity is transphobia", they should be able to grasp that "an attack on a bi person based on their identity is biphobia".
This is proof (as if we needed it) that gatekeeper logic is in fact bung.
One reason people attack trans women is because they perceive them as gay men, dressing as women to trick straight men into having sex with them. Their hostility is born from a fear of gay men. However, no one calls an attack on a trans woman homophobia, they call it what it is, which is transphobia and transmisogyny. Because that's what it is.
If the gatekeepers can understand the logic that "an attack on a trans woman based on her identity is transphobia", they should be able to grasp that "an attack on a bi person based on their identity is biphobia".
This is proof (as if we needed it) that gatekeeper logic is in fact bung.