Jedward. (Dave Hogan/Getty)
Jedward have condemned the hateful “super straight” trend which claims refusing to date a trans person is a sexual orientation.
The trend quickly gained momentum on TikTok in March when user @kyleroyce shared a video explaining that he had created “a new sexuality” called “super straight”.
In the video, the TikTok user said he would never date a trans woman because “that’s not a real woman to me”, adding that people can’t call him transphobic because super straight is his “sexuality”.
The trend – which might have been the work of neo-Nazis – quickly gained traction on social media, with countless transphobes rushing to describe themselves as “super straight” – and Irish duo Jedward are having none of it.
Most recently screenshots from a women s dating app have circulated online, as the photos contain what looks to be a fake account allegedly set up by Linehan.
In the screenshots, Linehan can be seen posing as a women and stated on the account that he is “lesbian/queer/questioning” and that he uses she/her pronouns.
For my twitter people who don’t follow the transphobia wars, just a heads up about the point we’ve reached: TV’s popular Graham Linehan is joining lesbian dating apps in order to ‘make a point’ and/or screenshot all the women he finds insufficiently feminine for his tastes pic.twitter.com/dr3mthuljm
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