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As a trans man, I do sometimes feel myself to be on the recieving end of straight hate in LGBT spaces. At Uni, I usually loudly point out that trans people, asexual people, the partners of bi and pan and poly people and some queer-identified people can be and are straight so making jokes and commments about us hets in LGBT spaces is less than inclusive.

I've been in some spaces though where the only hets allowed in are trans people - and those grudgingly and, I feel, on the basis that het trans people are "really gay". I don't feel safe announcing or displaying my het identity in those spaces, even to call people out on what they say, because I am afraid of transphobia from those people and saying that I'm het would out me as trans.

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