Wow. Golly, I can’t imagine at all what it’s like to be seen as a sex object with no feeling or boundaries who exists merely to validate others’ sexual fantasies.

Ha! Nailed it! Trans-stans: projection much?

The number of people in the replies talking about how people who want trans people are fetishizing is unreal.

Yeah, and again-- pot: meet kettle! The gender-fetishists (i.e., trans people) accusing OTHERS of fetishism for... fetishizing their fetishism? Holy hall-of-mirrors-hypocrisy, Batman! You practically need a flow chart to keep track of this crap.

But also: isn't it only to be expected that those who want trans people will fetishize them? Since, for the most part, wanting them is the RESULT of... a fetish?

And it sort of has to be, doesn't it? After all, "trans" is short for "transgender"... and NO sexual orientation is based on attraction to THAT. Bio-sex only, please! Gender just doesn't compute. Which largely rules out all those who might want them for non-fetishistic reasons (i.e., actual sexual attraction). Especially if they destroy their genitals: while some gay men, for example, might be into a "transwoman" as long as the baseline indicator of male sex (penis) is still there, when it's gone, so's the MINIMUM REQUIREMENT for any male-attracted person's interest. And since what they have as a "replacement" isn't the female equivalent (or genitalia at all, but rather some indefinable... thing that reeks of Uncanny Valley), it won't work for anyone attracted to WOMEN, either.

So who's left? Those attracted to something OTHER than biological sex. Like... gender. Meaning the entirely-artificial, culturally-determined/imposed SYMBOLS of maleness and (especially) femaleness. Such as high heels, or dresses, or long hair, or makeup, or bras. And whose sexuality is centered on THAT sort of thing?

Fetishists.

But they want people to be attracted to them based on their GENDER, after all! Absolutely DEMAND it, in fact! Forbid anyone to recognize their sex!

Well... THIS is what that looks like.