The meme term ‘trap’ only refers to trans people, even though I have been informed it does not, and there are many examples of people using the term not to refer to trans people, just feminine but non-trans anime boys, any one of which would disprove my claim. Because I say so, okay?
Saying this is totally not sexist. It’s not sexist or prejudiced at all to think a dude who looks girly must be trans.Â
I was around when the term was shortened (originally comes from Bridget Trap, a form of shitpost trolling from 4chan that was basically, picture of Guilty Gear’s Bridget with something along the lines of would you fuck her /b/? The troll part came from revealing Bridget is a guy and seeing the homophobic folks lose their shit, eventually expanded beyond Bridget, other popular folks were Ash Crimson from KoF, any super bishounen guy from the animoos or mangos, and some Japanese musicians).
Basically never referred to trans folks, but to the fact that it was, at the time, 4d trolling.
Oh my god. You mean to tell me there are people who want to be offended so badly they have actually appropriated the term trap and turned it from being a joke to a slur against transgender people?
The term trap has always been about boys who appear to be girls and had zero to do with transgender people.
Transgender people already have enough shit to deal with without someone trying to dump even more on them.
Yep. They’ll even get upset if trans people disagree.