Jokes have context behind them . I think it ' s perfectly valid to think that a joke comes from a bigoted place , or punches down . This whole I sexually identify as a . joke is pretty much the equivalent of the next they ' ll be wanting to marry their pets line of ten years ago , in my opinion . Sure there are a very fringe group of people who are attracted to inanimate objects google it , but if someone brings that up repeatedly to make a joke out of gay people , you can be pretty sure they ' re a homophobe . In the same way I think that while the joke might not directly refer to transgender people , it is reactionary to the increasing awareness of transgender issues in popular culture . Also , anytime gender identity is brought up at all on this website , you can bet your bottom dollar there ' ll be twenty helicopter copypastas and a triggered .