Is it time to bring sexual attraction under government access and inclusion regulations?

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[–]loveSloaneSuperDuperBi 12 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 0 fun13 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

“Surprisingly, among the 127 participants open to dating a trans person, almost half selected a trans person of a gender incongruent with their stated sexual orientation. For example, 50% of the trans-inclusive straight women and 28% of the trans-inclusive gay men were willing to date a trans woman, even though one wouldn’t expect either straight women or gay men to be attracted to women. Similarly, 50% of trans-inclusive straight men and 69% of trans-inclusive lesbians said they’d date a trans man, even though both groups are presumably only attracted to women. And 33% of the trans-inclusive bisexual/queer participants said they would only date a trans person of one gender but not the other, even though one may expect this group to be attracted to multiple genders.”

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(127 out of just under 1,000)

[–]loveSloaneSuperDuperBi 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

(At the beginning of the article) “958 participants (all but seven cisgender, ranging in age from 18 to 81, with an average age of 26)...

...Of course, this is just one study with a non-representative sample (participants were recruited using online advertisements, listserv messages, on-campus announcements, in-print magazine ads, snowballing methods, and invitations sent to previous study participants), so more research is needed to understand the extent of this form of trans exclusion and the reasons driving it.” (Towards the end)

Translation: we asked a variety of people of all sexualities (they asked trans people and enbies, and lgb people), ages, and backgrounds, but we didn’t like the results so we’ll just keep asking until we get results we can skew in our favor or that we can twist to tell us what we want to hear.

[–]PenseePansyBio-Sex or Bust 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

“Surprisingly, among the 127 participants open to dating a trans person, almost half selected a trans person of a gender incongruent with their stated sexual orientation."

More like, "UNsurprisingly, among the 127 participants open to dating a trans person, almost half selected a trans person of a sex congruent with their stated sexual orientation". Woo! Now THERE'S a shocker! Yeah, straight women and gay guys selected someone whose sex was male, straight men and lesbians selected someone whose sex was female... JUST LIKE YOU'D PREDICT. The only "surprise" here is that it was merely "almost half" instead of 100%!

How can this be seen as anything other than proof that sexual attraction is about one's sex, not "gender identity"? And how much longer do we have to pretend to live in genderists' third-rate fantasyland where it's the other way around?

[–]refusetoliein a time of universal deceit 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Most of that other half were likely confused about whether the "wo/man" in trans wo/man referred to their biological sex or the sex they are trying to approximate. Additionally, most people who have only known a well-passing trans person or none at all are likely picturing the scenario of someone who perfectly passes as an attractive person of the sex they desire.