• Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      19 hours ago

      Oh I can answer this one!

      The areas with the highest anti-trans sentiment also consume the most trans pornography.

      This is the anchor point, because they only interact with trans people through pornography, they view them as sexualized at their core.

      This is why there’s so much “they shove their sexuality in our faces” talk because to these people, trans people existing at all is “shoving it in their face.”

      Why? Once again, because they, in their own minds, have reduced trans people to sex objects.

      The important part of it is that bit that says “(beneath photo of 17 year old girl)” because it’s just a photo. To look at a photo and immediately assume what they have going on their pants is the definition of sexualizing it. It’s just an innocuous photo of a teen, and now they’ve made it sexual by thinking way too much about what kind of genitals this innocent teen has. Literally, this could be a cisgender girl, no less. They’re flat out making an assumption, the example does not say one way or another. So what, does she need to show her pussy to these people to prove she’s cisgender and stop the abuse?

      What does it say about a person when they see a photo of a teen and their first thought is about what genitals they have? It says they view everything through a lens of sex, and they have sexualized this girl for spending, once again, way too much time thinking about her genitals, genitals which have no impact on them as viewers of the photo.

      By jumping to her genitals, they’ve sexualized it, and that’s because they only view trans people as sex objects.