Talk:Aisha Bhatt/@comment-43958338-20191003121113/@comment-27579299-20191128051010

Like, I get what they were TRYING to say, but it does come off as shaming lesbians... which is unfortunate because I thought it was cool that Choices was introducing more trans representation with a transwoman love interest... only to further prove that many of their writers have no idea how to write LGBT characters. :\

It would be one thing if Aisha was describing a situation where she was specifically discriminated against, but the MC turning that little bit Aisha said around on lesbians "hating trans girls" simply because they're not into transwomen just comes out of nowhere. Transwomen, like men, are not entitled to a relationship. Just like how lesbians are not entitled to straight women who aren't into women, or men are entitled to any woman, or literally any other similar scenario. There's writing a character trying to be a supportive friend, and then there's misrepresenting members of the LGBT community and this was definitely the latter.

That's what rubs me the wrong way about that exchange so much. If someone isn't into a transperson, that doesn't always make them transphobic; they might have their reasons but you're not always entitled to an explaination as to why someone isn't romantically interested in you. They really should have had Aisha tell the MC a story in which she was actually a victim of transphobia, or just have the MC respond in a sympathetic way without throwing another marginalized group of people under the bus.