super straight
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: superstraight
form: super-straight
form: Super Straight
Etymology: Coined by Canadian TikToker Kyle Royce in a video posted on February 21, 2021, in which he explained that he had begun identifying as "super straight" in order to avoid accusations of transphobia for not wanting to date transgender people. It was later popularized by the 4chan board /pol/.
Senses: examples: text: These TikTok users have also come up with a flag to symbolize 'super straight' people. The flag is made up of black and orange colors. Several users have made the flag their profile picture or have been using it on their bio.
ref: 2021 March 7, Prerna Nambiar, “What is super straight movement on TikTok? Super straight flag gets slammed”, in HITC, archived from the original on 07 Mar 2021:
text: Super straight, yeah, you can check the flag / I was bisexual for a minute, but switched back
ref: 2021 March 7, “Super Straight”performed by LilCockPump:
text: "I've made a new sexuality," Kyleroyce said in his video. "Straight men get called transphobic because I wouldn't date a trans woman. Now, I'm super straight. I only date the opposite gender, women, that are born women. So you can't say I'm transphobic now because that is just my sexuality."
ref: 2021 March 8, Steven Asarch, “A social-media trend has people identifying as 'super straight.' The transphobic campaign was meant to divide LGBTQ people.”, in Insider:
text: We also encountered numerous posts referring to the trend as "SS pride" and one talking about tattooing the SS rune as part of their "Super Straight pride."
ref: 2021 March 11, Nur Ibrahim, “Did the 'Super Straight' Trend Originate With Nazis on 4chan?”, in Snopes, archived from the original on 27 Jan 2022:
text: According to super straight "advocates", this sexual orientation describes cisgender people who are only attracted to cisgender individuals of the opposite gender. Super straight people claim that the identity is just like any other identity that falls under the LGBTQ spectrum, and that identifying as one is a way to "come out" and express that they are proud to be straight and cis.
ref: 2022 June 14, “Is there a straight Pride flag? Exploring the controversy of the heterosexual flag”, in LGBTQ Nation, archived from the original on 17 Aug 2022:
glosses: Being sexually attracted only to cisgender people of the opposite sex.
examples: text: Online vendors started hawking "super straight" apparel to further ridicule the LGBTQ pride movement by mimicking pride merchandise.
ref: 2021 March 14, Morgan Sung, “The 'super straight' campaign taking over TikTok is actually just ugly transphobic trolling”, in Mashable, archived from the original on 02 Jul 2022:
text: At school the next day, a group of students hung "super straight" flags, referring to a transphobic identity claimed by some individuals who only date cis people, in the halls.
ref: 2022 September 21, Nico Lang, “The Precarious State of School GSAs”, in Them, archived from the original on 09 Oct 2022:
text: TikTok is a place where trans individuals advocate for themselves and have found a community to share their experiences on. How is it that this platform took two years after the super-straight movement to protect its creators and set precedent on their own beliefs?
ref: 2022 November 1, Saba S., “Queeries: A rant about inclusivity on TikTok”, in The Tufts Daily, archived from the original on 11 Nov 2022:
glosses: Relating to the community of individuals identifying as super straight.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see super, straight.