[CW: transphobia] How can they not see this is what's coming‽

Original artist is Adam Ellis, here's his Instagram.

Yay thank you. I don't like posting stuff like this without attribution and my image searches just kept turning up imgur and reddit links
- I'll be honest, I just went into the comments of one of those reddit links and scrolled down until I saw someone share the artist's name :P

They think they can insulate themselves by grifting enough dough by being a professional "one of the good ones"

Yeah could well be, in addition to a case of "surely the leopards won't eat my face"
- It’s a super risky strategy. If you win the outcome lottery then you’ll be accepted as one of the good ones.
  
  But it’s a lot more likely that you’ll be arrested too after having made the lives of everybody like you worse.
  
  Humans decisions being a statistical distribution will have some people who can’t properly make this risk calculation.
  
  It’s the same energy as women siding with the misogynists.

Ignorant straight cisgendered ally question- Is this really a thing? Is there a wedge between sexuality and gender advocacy?

The majority of conservative cis LGB folk think that their version of queerness is ok, but other types are not. Anti trans LGB folk are one version of this
- That’s awful. Just enough acceptance for them, and fuck everyone else. It must take a complete lack of empathy.
- I've never met one of these people... I feel like they must be a monitority of the minority, right?
Unlike what some commenters have said, it's absolutely not just "a Twitter thing". Eg. one of Finland's new MEPs is exactly this sort of person; a gay man dating an immigrant, but who belongs to an extremist right-wing party. He hates trans people, and like all conservative LGBT+ folks he is so oblivious that he apparently completely misses the fact that were his party to actually have their way, they would literally murder him for not being straight, and at best deport his boyfriend if they didn't send him to the same extermination camp
- One of the most prominent politicians of the far right AfD in Germany, which was too extreme for the right block in the EU, is also a lesbian with an immigrant wife.
- That’s contemptible. I can’t imagine what it must be like to act against your own interests with such conviction. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Yeah, I have a gay buddy who is very supportive of most aspects of LGBTQI+ but HATES when people try to make kinks part of what he believes the culture is. "Leather harnesses, Fursuits and getting your dick or tits out in public has nothing to do with being gay."

Which I kind of get, but more historically speaking is also kind of wack because straight kink communities were some of the earliest supporters of gay rights. Gay peoples opinions like a rainbow are also a broad spectrum.
- I think the important thing is to just realize that you can be accepting of something even if you don't personally want to be involved with it. And on the flip side, some people just don't want to be a part of certain groups, and that's OK too.
its basically a twitter thing but there are people like riley gaines who bleed out into real life and work for ron desantis pushing culture wars
- Gotcha. Thanks!
I wouldn't say there's a widespread thing, but I've definitely known people like the one depicted in the comic.

Similar to how TERFs proclaim to be feminist while simultaneously rejecting trans women.

These people make no sense to me at all.
- TERFs will also straight-up join with anti-feminists. It's okay to be anti-choice, anti-gay, "socially conservative," whatever. Despite yelling about how they're protecting women, none of that matters so long as they hate the same people.
Yes. Conservatives disdain anything "abnormal". What is "abnormal" to a sheltered idiot from a rural town? That is everything they will ostracize. In totality. Everything a sheltered idiot would be afraid of.
- That I’m aware of. It’s fucking despicable.
  
  Are there are lesbians, gays, and bisexuals that don’t stand up for transgender rights like in the comic? That’s what I haven’t heard about.
As with any civil rights movement, there's always a sect of "got mine" people who want to pull up the ladder when they get what they want. So it was when bisexuality was becoming more recognized (yes really, look up forums of gay people saying they wouldn't date someone who was bi), and asexuality, and that's not even touching the gender identity side of things. Now that they feel relatively comfortable, they want all those upstarts to settle down so we can all live in "peace".

these people know nothing. In a religious anti lgbt demonstration in Turkey some of the more fundamentalist groups started a fight with casual conservatives for playing their music too loud cause they deemed it was inappropriate. lol.

Isn't it transphobic to lump drag queens and trans people together?

Sure is.

Both of the characters in this comic are transphobic, though.
- Though the characters never mention trans people at all. And nothing in the comic implies trans people.
i would assume the artist is mocking the terfs and transphobic l's and g's who got in on the "save the children" nonsense
Transphobic legislation usually doesn't make the distinction, because, you see, it's transphobic legislation.
- Yep. If they ban drag performance, and don't recognize trans identity as valid, then trans people presenting as their gender would be considered "in drag." Merely going out in public would be criminalized, which is the point. They want extermination, but will take disappearance in the meantime.
Yes and no. Obviously, trans and drag are two different things, but they are hated for the same reason: transgressing gender normativity and especially showing it's OK for AMAB persons to have and display characteristics traditionally assigned to femininity.

So yes, equating trans with drag is wrong for all reasons, but this doesn't make this cartoon transphobic, only realistic.
- Indeed, one need not listen to TERFs and conservatives for very long to see that they happily conflate the two as "men in dresses." (FtM people simply don't exist unless it's someone they liked to jerk off to pre-transition)

For some extra background on the absurdity of the Drop the T nonsense, Caelan Conrad and Sarah Oeffler have this amazing video: https://youtu.be/6i91PzpWDAM?si=cdXLbhBOA39Zxg77

Just gonna come in here and drop an over two hour video without a note? Woof
- I'll link Cody's Showdy anytime I want, personally.
  
  What kind of progressive doesn't watch hour long video essays?
BTW, you posted the link with the youtube trackers still attached. Everything from the '?si=' onward can be deleted while still directly linking to the video.

It might have been interesting to see the L/G person being “taken away” at the end by a person of color. I haaate the way people are continuing to victimize both trans and drag people, and for anyone who doesn’t remember, the 80s and 90s were pretty much just like this for gays in the west. Gays in eastern and conservative cultures are still repressed and suppressed right now. I also hate that I myself harbored a misconception of drag queens until recently. I know at least that the face eating leopards are not on my side.

The early gay rights movement was mostly advanced by the work of trans people too, which makes it all the more worse.