‘Are Traps Gay?’ Question Sparks Furor At YouTube And Gaming Event – The Daily Caller

Coxcon, a U.K.-based gaming event taking place over the weekend, has become a lightning rod of controversy after an attendee was ejected for asking organizers an offensive question during a Q&A session. Someone asked the events founder, Jesse Cox, if traps are gay. The fallout from the question overshadowed the event in its entirety, which was to provide YouTubers and gaming streamers a platform to reach out to their fans.

In Internet lingo, a trap is a transgender person who manages to pass as a woman. To ask the question, are traps gay? is a popular, if politically incorrect, meme on social mediaYouTubers and other streamers are often asked for their thoughts about it. Progressive social justice warriors consider the question, as well as the term trap, to be both offensive and bigoted towards transgender people.

At Coxcon, most of the panels audience reacted in laughter upon hearing the question. Their amusement at the joke was not shared by Jesse Cox, who responded in shock. When the question was once again repeated, he remained visibly offended.

Popular video game YouTuber John TotalBiscuit Bain, who is another of the conventions organizers, escalated the issue by issuing a public condemnation of the person who asked the joke.

We condemn the transphobic question asked at the Coxcon panel, he wrote on Twitter. If anyone knows the identity of the person please inform a member of staff.

Following his call for someone to snitch, Bain discovered the identity of the thought-criminal and removed him from the convention.

The person has been identified and is being removed from the event, wrote the YouTuber, who engaged with his detractors by telling them their opinions were of no consequence.

We will not tolerate that bullshit in our event, ever, he said.

Bain followed up by stating that he donated the cost of the ejected persons ticket to a U.K.-based LGBT organization called the Albert Kennedy Trust, adding that Internet edgelords are not welcome in the event we paid to host and if you think any other opinion matters you are delusional. Thanks.

Its not at all surprising that the kind of people that would oppose our action are the kind of people we wouldnt want here anyway, he concluded.

In 2015, Bain, who now appears to be crusading for politically correct speech, mocked the concept of transgender identityin a tweet thatas many have pointed outaged poorly.

John TotalBiscuit Bains criticismcomes as a surprise to many on social media, who respected him for his willingness to say it like it is, and for his open support of the GamerGate movement for ethics in video game journalism.

Ian Miles Cheong is a journalist and outspoken media critic. You can reach him through social media at @stillgray on Twitter.

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