Sandbox / Homophobia Index Comparison

Homophobia Index is a mixture of negative LGBT portrayals, In-Universe discrimination, and "this might carry Unfortunate Implications for LGBT". The latter kind is subjective and complainy, and is similar to what led to Handle This Index With Care getting cut and added to the Permanent Red Link Club, as well as the circumstances in the TRS threads for the Scrappy Index and the Bad Writing Index (now Writing Pitfall Index). In addition to the complaining about tropes, both the scope and the contents of Homophobia Index significantly overlap with its parent Queer as Tropes, which contains 55 of the 99 items listed here.

See Index Cleanup and the main TRS thread for more information.

Analysis of index contents

Key

• Total: 99
• Blue: Out-of-universe homophobia, including stereotypes and negative portrayals (40/99)
• Green: In-universe homophobia (14/99)
• Teal: Both of the above, or unclear (6/99)
• Gold: LGBT-related, but not necessarily homophobic (11/99)
• Pink: Sexism or gender conformity (10/99)
• Purple: General discrimination (5/99)
• Red: Minimal to no relevance (12/99)
• Gray: Mixed/unclear (1/99)

By membership in Queer as Tropes

Non-members (44/99)

1. Gay Guy Dies First: The minority included to be immediately killed off is a queer character. It’s almost explicitly giving the message that creators feel pushed to include them but actively want to erase them. Not unlike Black Dude Dies First
2. Gay Panic: In TV Tropes, this is when queer plotlines and/or characters that were airing are suddenly changed or dropped entirely, it suggests moral disapproval is behind their disappearance. In Real Life, the phrase refers to a legal defence used to partially or completely excuse crimes such as murder and assault on the grounds that the victim's sexual orientation or gender identity is to blame for the defendant's violent reaction. ^note In August 2013, the American Bar Association passed a resolution condemning the use of such defenses in court, however as of 2018 only two US states have outright banned it (one of which specifically amended the bill to still allow the trans panic defence before passing it). Trivia item about a reaction
3. Heteronormative Crusader: The "crusader" part implies a morally-sanctioned combative attitude; the "heteronormative" part implies the enemy is anyone who doesn't follow conventional rules about sex and gender performance. Character trait
4. Homophobic Hate Crime: The unfortunate situation of people being attacked or killed because of homophobia towards them on the attacker's part. 'Nuff said
5. Sexual Deviance Is Evil: A catch-all for tropes where nonstandard sexual behavior (which generally encompasses LGBTQIA+) is conflated with evil or villainous characters. An supertrope to various items, some of which are negative portrayals of LGBT
6. She's a Man in Japan: This is not always homophobic in motivation, but a large proportion of examples involve changing a character's gender or cis/trans status in order to avoid provoking Moral Guardians by having non-cis characters and/or non-straight romantic relationships. This is not necessarily LGBT-related, but this comment describes appealing to transphobia
7. Bowdlerise: Generally, this involves any editing of language and sexual themes from an existing work and is generally performed by Moral Guardians, or at their request. Specifically for LGBTI people, it means removing queer content from existing works because it is queer, such as removing instances of Boys' Love and lesbians from anime works, effectively turning a seinen anime into a Shōnen—to "protect" the children in the audience. Can be anything offensive
8. Condescending Compassion: Among the many groups that can be on the receiving end of this are people with disabilities and members of racial and religious minorities. When directed at homosexuals, it can allow the "compassionate" person to feel superior to those who have the "misfortune" to be queer. Their pity may only last so long as their targets go along with this. General discrimination
9. Gendered Insult: While not exclusive to queer characters, there's often a homophobic and/or transphobic suggestion to these sorts of insults. The trope can also include instances where trans characters are intentionally misgendered. Can include transphobia
10. Internalized Categorism: This can affect members of racial, ethnic and religious minorities as well as women, and the problem can be compounded when a person fits more than one category and believes the worst of more than one group. When a queer person believes all the worst stereotypes about queer people, trouble follows, often for them and occasionally for others. General discrimination
11. Not That There's Anything Wrong with That: The "that" can be any number of things, not only race and religion but also including the enjoyment of unusual hobbies and participation in BDSM play. A backpedaling move to avoid being called a bigot, this trope can come across as insincere, especially if paired with "No really, some of my best friends are gay!". Specific to homosexuality
12. Some of My Best Friends Are X: As the "X" indicates, this can be used with racial or ethnic groups and religious adherents as well as cisgender men and women. In an LGBTI context, some people claim this as a defense against a charge of homophobic bigotry. When it's clear they aren't really that friendly with any gay people, it isn't much of a defense. General discrimination
13. Values Dissonance: As noted on this trope's page, this problem is very widespread. Even food is not immune: a vegan and an omnivore will look at the same plate of baby back ribs and have vastly different reactions. In the LGBTI context, for some people, tropes that depict queer people in a bad light are offensive, while for others they're simply funny or even true. Can include many things beyond discrimination
14. Tragic AIDS Story: In cases where gay men are often shown to necessarily suffer from, and ultimately die from, HIV/AIDS. Often overlaps with Bury Your Gays
15. "Gender-Normative Parent" Plot: A boy wants to pursue feminine interests, but is pushed to be manly. Discrimination against gender nonconformists
16. Incredibly Conspicuous Drag: Because men in dresses are considered funny. From trope description: "...it's often been used to mock transgender women who fail to pass"
17. Intersex Tribulations: Characters are perceived as unusual because they are born intersex. If not that, then they internalize negative feelings towards being intersex. The "I" in some expansions of the LGBT acronym
18. No Guy Wants an Amazon: Men find masculine women unattractive. Might include trans women, but this is general discrimination against gender nonconformists
19. Otherworldly and Sexually Ambiguous: These characters can be powerful escapist characters for trans, intersex and gender-nonconforming people, but can also carry the implication that not fitting neatly into a binary gender makes you not quite a real human being. This isn't helped by the fact that many characters like this have Blue-and-Orange Morality, implying that being outside a strict gender binary is so mysterious and different to the normal human experience that it's incomprehensible to ordinary people. This is a bit weak, but discrimination against non-binary people is described in the description
20. Pink Is for Sissies: When a male character is ridiculed for wearing the feminine color. Discrimination against gender nonconformists
21. Stay in the Kitchen: When a character or the narrative insists that women should stay out of action and be a domestic. Sexism
22. There Are No Girls on the Internet: An assumption that any female-identifying person met anonymously on the internet is actually "a dude", doing it for perverted reasons. In addition to harming cis women, this erases or vilifies large numbers of transgender or non-binary persons on the internet who may have been assigned male at birth but now identify as more feminine or outright female. This can be especially harmful since many trans women begin socially transitioning online before coming out as a woman in the real world. Sexist stereotype
23. Tomboy Angst: A female character hates being too "masculine". This involves gender, but without a clear discrimination
24. Unsettling Gender-Reveal: This kind of revelation is unsettling because the other person is attracted to the person who's doing the revealing. It can result in violence, even death. This often leads to transphobia, and the description discusses Unfortunate Implications
25. Wanted a Gender-Conforming Child: A character wishes their daughter were more feminine or their son were more masculine. Gender conformity
26. All Women Are Prudes: Several asexual traits (In particular sex repulsion) are portrayed as universal among women, which erases the fact that there are differences between asexual and allosexual women. Gender stereotype; description mentions a lesbian stereotype, but connection to LGBT is not "obvious"
27. Alone Among the Couples: Single characters who stumble into a situation where they are surrounded by couples are almost never happily single and hence almost always in a position in which they are envying the couples to some extent. This also reinforces the idea that singlehood is something undesirable, which results in asexuals and aromatics being pressured into finding a sexual/romantic partner they sometimes don't want at all by friends and relatives. Gosh, there's a lot of shoehorning going on here
28. Better than Sex: Properly handled, it can create a moment relatable to asexuals who have sex (or experienced it at some point in their lives), but genuinely find other activities more enjoyable. Poorly handled, it can deride the very idea of something being more enjoyable than sex and/or people sincerely preferring another activity to it. Well, Tropes Are Tools, and how is this homophobic?
29. Black Jezebel Stereotype: Black people are stereotyped as being a sexually promiscuous population, resulting in asexual people being even less likely to be believed about their orientation if they happen to also have dark skin. Black women, more specifically, but not related to LGBT
30. Celibate Eccentric Genius: Asexual and aromatic behavior are depicted as going hand in hand with high intelligence, interest in intellectually stimulating activities and lack of interest in platonic socializing. The personalities of real-life asexuals and aromatics are much more diverse than that. The fact that asexuality and aromanticism don't always overlap mean that even partner-seeking socializing can still be engaged in. I guess this is an asexual/aromantic stereotype?
31. Deconfirmed Bachelor: Never wanting to get married is quite common among asexuals and aromantics, especially if the two orientations overlap. The belief that members of those populations "just haven't met the right person yet" is also quite widespread. It's hence extremely easy for that trope slip into asexual or aromantic erasure, especially if the narrative is closer to "this character had never fallen in love before, until they met that person" than to "this character dated plenty of people, but this is the first time they meet someone they want to settle down with." This one actually put me on the fence, but it seems marginal
32. Everyone Must Be Paired: Asexuals and aromantics are much more likely to be happily single or in relationships that qualify for Heterosexual Life-Partners or Platonic Life-Partners. This makes narratives that insist upon having every single member of the cast in a romantic and/or sexual relationship by the end of the story a mix of erasure and something on par with having every single final pair be heterosexual in a setting that has been shown to allow for same-sex pairs on some level. Just more Political Overcorrectness
33. Lousy Lovers Are Losers: Being unable to sexually satisfy a partner is portrayed as a major character flaw that can only be redeemed via being improved upon and implies the absence of other character traits that are desirable in a romantic partner. This one can actually hurt both sides of a relationship involving at least one asexual person, as asexuality affects both one's capacity to perform satisfactorily and one's ability to enjoy sex. Asexuals identifying as such to cover up that they are lousy lovers and/or because they have yet to have sex with a satisfying partner are also common misconceptions. This sounds more plausible
34. Madonna-Whore Complex: Women who want sex are Whores. Therefore, women who don't desire sex are treated as perfect, holy, pure, and an Embodiment of Virtue with no real agency or personality... in fact, so perfect and pure that they're the only women men should want to marry and have sex with. The idea that asexual women are ideal breeding partners also carries the implication that asexual women secretly do want sex, deep down... which has the logical conclusion that asexual women are also Whores. In reality, whether a woman desires or doesn't desire sex has absolutely nothing to do with her moral character, and asexual women are sincere about their lack of desire, not 'guarding their virtue' or 'waiting for the right man'. Gender stereotype
35. A Man Is Always Eager: Masculinity is based on how much a man wants sex. The implication is that if a man isn't constantly seeking out sex (often to an extent that most allosexual men don't reach), that's because there's something wrong with him. In addition to being hateful to asexual men, it is derived from a sexist idea that sex is something men are compelled to try to take from women, with the manliest men being the ones who are most successful at it, and less successful men being worthy of hatred and mockery. Mentioned in description
36. Nature Adores a Virgin: Applying various aspects of this trope to asexuals is a very common way to misunderstand the orientation: fact that asexuality doesn't always mean virginity or even sex-repulsion aside, it gives those who are virgins, which include many sex-repulsed aces, the type of attention that they often don't want to get. At a broader social level, this trope also erases some the struggles asexuals face in real life, due to creating an assumption that they have an easier time in environments that frown at sex outside of wedlock than they actually do^note In many such environments, the social imperative to "save oneself" for marriage comes with an obligation to eventually get married and have sex within said marriage. Asexuals who do want to get married might have to deal with laws that, in practice, require the people involved in a marriage to have sex for it to be valid.. Nothing in the description about LGBT discrimination
37. Playing Hard to Get: The presence of "pretend you're not interested" among known seduction methods results in many claims of asexuality not being taken seriously because they are mistaken for an extreme form of the method. Not an integral part of the trope
38. Sex Is Interesting: A work adds in loads of sexual characters under the impression that sexuality is the only thing that makes a story worth telling. The implication is that people who don't want sex are too boring to matter. Related to this is creators arguing that characters need to have, and fulfil, sexual desires to be a Rounded Character, or that you can't have a full life without having sex. Unclear if this trope is about characters who find sex interesting, or writers finding sex interesting. See also [1].
39. Sexless Marriage: If a married couple isn't having sex in fiction, it frequently means one of the following: they don't love each other anymore, it's a Marriage of Convenience in the first place, the couple is unable/unwilling to sleep in the same bed or at the same time for whatever reason or at least one half is in a situation that prevents them from having sex even if they wanted to. As a result, a marriage in which the couple is having sex is portrayed as inherently going better than one in which the couple isn't, leading to a real-life assumption that marriages in which at least one partner is asexual are never as happy as those involving two allosexual people who regularly have sex. Mischaracterizes asexuality, comparing against the description: "For that matter, people with an Asexual orientation can still experience romantic attraction and have perfectly healthy relationships where sex simply isn’t an interest."
40. Sour Prudes: People who don't engage in much sex are portrayed as looking down on people who have significantly more sex than they do. This results in a "asexuals don't want anybody to have sex" stereotype, when in reality even asexuals who don't engage in sex at all can be favor of other people having the amount of sexual activity they wish, as long as said sexual activity doesn't involve them. Prove it.
41. Token Romance: Insistence on tacking a romantic subplot onto every story, regardless of how well it can be executed or how it fits the setting or genre, sends a message to aromantic people that if they don't have a love interest, their story is not one worth telling. Quoth the description: "Meanwhile, more cynical voices will claim that the romance is merely there to make absolutely sure that audience knows what canon sexuality the given character has."
42. Virginity Makes You Stupid: Between the assumption that all asexuals are virgins and the fact that a number of them actually are, the association between virginity and stupidity/naïvety results in asexuals getting treated as if they have those traits by others. Prove it.
43. Virgin-Shaming: Social stigma against virgins becomes even more of a problem when an orientation that often results in little to no interest in sex exists. Discrimination on the basis of sexuality
44. You Need to Get Laid: Sex as a stress reducer can range from ineffective to counter-productive for asexuals. It's also frequently suggested as a "solution" to the asexuality itself. Generally insensitive

Members (55/99)

1. Adaptational Sexuality: A character in a work is changed to fit heterosexual norms when the work is adapted to a different medium. Though this can be a capitulation to Moral Guardians, it nevertheless lends credence to heterosexism (the work is "improved" by making it less queer). Can go both ways (pun not intended)
2. Armoured Closet Gay: A closeted gay who's prompted by Internalized Categorism to express homophobia against others and aggressively assert his heterosexual bona fides. Their self-loathing can make the homophobia of such characters particularly vicious. Homophobic character
3. The Beard: When practised by lesbians and gay men, this kind of deception can divert suspicions and thus avoid homophobic bigotry. Not seeing anything about discrimination in there
4. Bait-and-Switch Lesbians: Two characters are subject to heavy and deliberate Homoerotic Subtext, but are never explicitly confirmed as sexual partners, and one or both of them is in a heterosexual relationship by the end of the show. Despite the title, there are an increasing number of male examples. Tends to trivialize the same-sex romance, as if it's only there to entertain the demographic titillated by the idea of people of the same sex behaving homoerotically together. Since in female examples the mere appearance of an available male often leads to the switch, it can imply that the women are only interested in each other until a man comes along. Commonly associated with Pseudo-Romantic Friendship, in which case it may also imply that they're engaging in lesbian-ish behaviour only because they don't know any better. "Queerbaiting is usually considered quite homophobic, or at least patronising and cynical when it's done these days..."
5. Bury Your Gays: If being gay is (one of) the worst thing(s) you can be and fiction is only satisfying if virtue is rewarded and vice is punished, then the gay characters deserve to die because they're gay. Making a homosexual character expendable because they are homosexual
6. Closet Gay: A character has to hide their orientation and appear straight. Just hiding in the closet
7. Cure Your Gays: The idea that homosexuality is a form of disease or insanity that can and must be "cured" (In Real Life, it has been discredited by professional organizations, including the American Psychiatric Association). Since it can be used to justify "treatments" that are difficult to distinguish from torture, depictions of this can be particularly squick-making. Out-of-universe if it works, in-universe if it is forced upon a character
8. Gay Aesop: Learning that anti-gay discrimination is bad is the lesson in this type of morality tale. As with all tropes, this can be handled badly or well. Positive portrayal that invokes homophobia
9. Gayborhood: As with ethnic neighbourhoods, the residents live in a concentrated area and have local businesses that appeal to their common interests. If the residents of a Gayborhood are depicted engaging in stereotypically predatory behaviours, such a place (with its large numbers of gays) comes across as threatening to a heterosexual audience. Not necessarily negative or invoking discrimination
10. Gay Cruising: Men seeking out anonymous casual sex with other men, oftentimes in public. This trope can be used to highlight homophobia as consenting men having sex with one another are usually targeted by law enforcement unfairly. Subtrope of Secretly Gay Activity; often motivated by homophobia
11. Gayngst: Linking homosexuality and unhappiness/depression/suicide can imply that being gay causes all those bad consequences (rather than the reactions of other people being the cause). Correlation does not equal causation. Internalized homophobia / Pet-Peeve Trope of viewers
12. Gayngst-Induced Suicide: The suggestion that being gay is a good, common reason to kill oneself. Particularly heinous because of its very real effect on LGBT youth. Mostly about the In-Universe side of Gayngst
13. Gay Romantic Phase: Treating being gay as some sort of phase one goes through, perhaps to appease moral guardians. It downplays someone's existing sexuality as a "phase" that one goes through, rather than being part of who they are. A Discredited Trope based on a wrong belief
14. Get Back in the Closet: When the Moral Guardians get into the editing room, this one helps promote the idea that condemnation of homosexuality is mainstream. It may also be an effort to produce a self-fulfilling prophecy. Listed on Tropes Needing TRS as a misclassified Trivia
15. Have I Mentioned I Am Gay?: The creators want to be inclusive, but are too afraid of the Moral Guardians to show gay behavior, so they rely heavily on stated assertions of homosexuality. So long as there is a difference between the romantic behaviors of straights and gays, the work carries the implication that being gay is wrong or bad. A type of tokenism
16. Have You Tried Not Being a Monster?: The familial rejection in this one is supposed to be well-meaning (assuming the family loves the queer person), but it carries the implication that the queer person can and should change. General discrimination
17. Homoerotic Subtext: When homosexual expressions are forbidden, some authors resort to this to put them in anyway. Is this discriminatory?
18. If It's You, It's Okay: This can be a way to excuse a homosexual or bisexual relationship as a one-off, as if the character needs an excuse. Quoth the description: "When it's made explicit, it's usually referred to as 'We're Not Gay We Just Love Each Other' (WNGWJLEO) in ficdom, where it's often criticized for its homophobia. As such, it's now an almost thoroughly Discredited Trope in Slash Fic."
19. Masculine–Feminine Gay Couple: This can be Truth in Television, but when all same-sex couples are assumed to be like this it appeals to outdated gender stereotypes of every romantic relationship needing to have a "man" and a "woman". A stereotype of same-sex relationships
20. Out of the Closet, Into the Fire: Coming out will kill, maim, or otherwise harm you. Supports the idea that if you're gay, you should keep it to yourself. Can involve a Homopphobic Hate Crime or Bury Your Gays
21. Queer People Are Funny: Humour about gay relationships because the participants are gay (as opposed to jokes about couples that could apply to heterosexual couples, i.e. they are tempermentally mismatched, have different tastes, or the like) suggests such relationships are inherently funny or deserve ridicule. Homosexuality is Played for Laughs — there's a long history of racial analogs, such as Asian Speekee Engrish
22. Rape and Switch: This is based on heteronormative idea that heterosexuality is the "default" state and thus being subject to sexual abuse causes the victim to become homosexual. It also gives the implication that being gay is inherently unhealthy and interferes with a "normal" sex life. This doesn't work in Real Life
23. Transparent Closet: Can be used to suggest a person is "really gay" and "in denial" about it. Alternatively, it may refer to someone who is trying to pass as straight and fails to do so. Hard to tell how this is discriminatory, if it can happen in Real Life
24. Butch Lesbian: One example of taking on the gender conventions of the opposite sex. The expectation that one of these must be paired with a Lipstick Lesbian (a lesbian who dresses and behaves in a conventionally feminine way) is an uncomfortable way to enforce a male/female that is only Truth in Television for some lesbians. Just a role type
25. Discount Lesbians: Humanoid lesbian characters get an extra layer of Othering by making them also alien, immortal, cybernetic or otherwise not quite human. While this can be a useful trick in a homophobic society, it also suggests being lesbian means being very unlike the normal folk in the audience, and not in a good way. Way of downplaying homosexuality
26. Hide Your Lesbians: In addition to the usual concealment of homosexuality, this one can also imply that lesbian women don't want sex (which is defined as heterosexual sex). The discriminatory roots of this trope are explained
27. Lesbian Vampire: The lack of humanity of Discount Lesbians plus the idea that lesbians are predatory (and must be, since they aren't "natural" and must "recruit" others) plus the association with death and decay. Only in more modern interpretations does it come across as empowering young women by letting them take a level in badass. Subtrope of Discount Lesbians, explanation here is similar to trope description
28. Psycho Lesbian: Plays on the purported link between homosexuality and insanity, flavoured with the sexist implication of "hysteria", as well as implying that if they're willing to do something as bad as lesbian sex, there's nothing they won't do. Sounds like a toxic trifecta, doesn't it? Negative stereotype
29. All Gays Are Pedophiles: Based partly on the purported hypersexuality of gays and partly on the idea that being gay isn't inherent in anyone, this trope says that gays "recruit" children and "turn" them gay. Never mind that the vast majority of real-life pedophiles (95% or more, depending on the study) are heterosexual. Negative stereotype
30. All Gays are Promiscuous: Essentially All Men Are Perverts plus I'm a Man; I Can't Help It. How bad this one is depends a lot on how the authors define a "normal" or ideal sex life. Stereotype
31. Always Camp: The idea that certain professions attract drama queens and people with campy sensibilities verge into the stereotype area (when "camp" is equated with "gay"), which leads to assumptions and rumors about people in those jobs. Stereotype of occupations, can overlap with Camp Gay
32. Ambiguously Gay: So maybe that character is gay, but for heaven's sake don't say so. Children may be watching. Hide Your Lesbians, folks
33. But Not Too Gay: In an effort to appeal to broad audiences without offending too many people, authors impose limits on homosexual expression that are more strict than those on heterosexual expression. This lends support to the idea that being gay is less acceptable than being straight. Downplaying of gay people
34. Camp Gay: First, this equates "effeminate" with "gay". Second, it implies that men who behave this way are deserving of ridicule. Third, in practice, it can be taken to paint all gays with this broad lavender brush, when it is only Truth in Television for some gays. Stereotype
35. Club Kid: Young hedonistic gays who spend their nights in dance clubs using copious amounts of drugs (legal and not) and hooking up with as many sex partners as possible. Not a flattering picture of gay youth. Stereotype
36. Depraved Homosexual: If they're having gay sex, and gay sex is among the worst sins on the calendar, they'll stick at nothing. Negative portrayal
37. Flaming Devil: A triple-serving of the lack of humanity of Discount Lesbians plus the caricature nature of Camp Gay plus the stereotypes associating male femininity with evil and male femininity with homosexuality (thus leading to associating homosexuality with evil as well). Feels complain-y, compared to the description, which does not mention Unfortunate Implications
38. Gay Best Friend: Since the sex lives of gay friends are either offscreen or non-existent, this reinforces the notion that they shouldn't have sex at all. Tokenism
39. Gym Bunny: This trope implies that gay men work out or participate in sports because they're vain (and want to perfect their looks) and horny (and are looking for sex partners), and any other reason is an afterthought at best. Stereotype
40. Straight Gay: Just as Camp Gay can be read as too over-the-top, this trope can be seen as too restrained due to insecurity or a desire to fit in with the mainstream. For some viewers, it also implies that gays are not masculine. Gay counter-stereotype; The trope itself isn't necessarily harmful, but applying it to real people can be. Due to these reasons, along with the growing LGBT representation in Western media, the trope is starting to fall into Discredited Trope terrority as such characters have been criticized as making gay or lesbian characters more palatable for straight audiences, especially if they aren't depicted with love interests.
41. Ambiguously Bi: So maybe that character is bi, but for heaven's sake don't say so. Children may be watching. Related to Ambiguously Gay
42. But Not Too Bi: In an effort to appeal to broad audiences without offending too many people, authors impose limits on bisexual expression that are more strict than those on heterosexual expression. This lends support to the idea that being bi is less acceptable than being straight. For bisexuals, this usually works out so that their attraction to one sex (usually their own) is made much less significant to their attraction to the other. Related to But Not Too Gay
43. Depraved Bisexual: If they're having gay sex, and gay sex is among the worst sins on the calendar, they'll stick at nothing. The presumed promiscuity of bisexuals turns up the volume on this one. Negative portrayal
44. No Bisexuals: This trope holds that there are only two choices: straight and gay. It tells bisexuals (and the rest of the culture) that they don't actually exist, and if they don't exist, who needs to worry about mentioning them? Besides, if they don't exist, they can't be offended. Not true in real life
45. Creepy Crossdresser: Associating crossdressing with immediate sexuality, evil or abnormality in fiction can feed the notion that crossdressing is done only by strange or predatory people. Aside from that, it reinforces sexist gender ideals and that differing from those norms is creepy and bad. Negative stereotype
46. Crossdresser: Sometimes people who crossdress are held up to ridicule because their bodies don't match their clothing, particularly if their dressing is associated with sexual satisfaction. Transgender people (particularly those who transition after experiencing puberty) can also get tarred with this brush when other people refuse to accept their gender identity. More successful gender presentations, once revealed, may prompt accusations of deception or worse. Transgender-related, but not necessarily transphobic
47. Drag Queen: Often, cis people will rather respect a drag queen's gender than the gender of an actual trans woman, when really most drag queens just play a character for comedy and only a few are actually trans. This also causes trans women to be seen as a joke instead of a real person. It should be noted that terminology and understanding of gender has changed over time; in the 70s and 80s, many trans women instead identified as 'drag queens' due to not having another word for themselves. (A famous example would be Marsha P. Johnson, the woman who threw the first brick in the Stonewall riot.) Just a drag queen, no discrimination inherent in the trope
48. Non-Human Non-Binary: The trope has implications that non-binary people are inhuman or are otherwise "other". It can dehumanize non-binary people. Can indeed be used to marginalize Real Life non-binary people
49. Sissy Villain: Villains with effeminate characteristics can lead viewers to equate effeminacy (in men) with evil. Since effeminacy is also often equated with homosexuality, this trope can tend to associate homosexuality with evil as well. Gender nonconformity portrayed negatively, description does not imply transphobia
50. Supernaturally-Validated Trans Person: Effectively exists as a counter to the idea that a trans person isn't a "real" member of their gender, although it can also come across as transphobic when it's handled poorly (for example if it conforms to transmedicalist^note A "philosophy" within the trans community that older, heavily medicalised definitions of trans people are the only way someone can be trans or enforces a gender binary — which excludes nonbinary folk, even if it is somewhat accepting of binary trans people). No discussion of Unfortunate Implications in the trope description
51. Trans Equals Gay: When one thinks that heterosexuality is the norm, it's easy to believe that gay people must have a gender identity opposite of their assigned gender at birth. Misconception
52. Trans Equals Hypersexual: Transgender or gender-nonconforming characters are depicted as having an Extreme Libido, no sexual boundaries, bizarre kinks, or otherwise over-the-top sexual proclivities. Stereotype
53. Trans Relationship Troubles: Being trans causes drama when it comes to romantic relationships. Discrimination antics
54. Trans Tribulations: Transgender characters going through a multitude of hardships, implying being transgender comes with endless misery. Trans people being discriminated against
55. No Love for the Wicked: An aro-ace character is villainous, with their lack of interest in romance and sex being a sign of their villainy. Negative portrayal of asexuality/aromanticism