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[–]SnowAssMan 19 insightful - 3 fun19 insightful - 2 fun20 insightful - 3 fun -  (3 children)

All the transgender men of colour are gay. Autogynaephilia is only present in Western cultures. It's a middle-class phenomenon. Most POC are not middle-class.

[–]PenseePansyBio-Sex or Bust 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

All the transgender men of colour are gay. Autogynaephilia is only present in Western cultures. It's a middle-class phenomenon. Most POC are not middle-class.

Here's something that I suspect may be a contributing factor, at least in the U.S.:

Most "transbians" are AGP straight white dudes. Their AGP usually seems to revolve around a "sissy/humiliation" fetish: being humiliated turns them on, and since they view women as inferiority personified, casting themselves as "women"-- i.e., "sissification" (= feminized in an ultra-weak, degraded, porn-y way) -- is the essence of hawt. It's exciting precisely because it's a transgression (if you will) against their own "superior" status as straight, white men... forbidden fruit. Same principle as the straight white CEO who gets a kinky thrill out of groveling at a dominatrix's feet. So naughty to be powerless!... but of course, in reality, he still calls all the shots.

By contrast, black men are ALREADY deemed inferior in mainstream American society's eyes. There's nothing forbidden, or transgressive, or daring (much less kinky/hawt) about it; this is just shitty business as usual for them. So I doubt that the straight ones are gonna see much appeal in a "sissy/humiliation" fetish. Which means that few, if any, will ever become "transbians".

Maybe it's not so much that gay black men are especially likely to "go trans"; rather, it's that straight black men so rarely do. Because what's escapist fun to straight white men represents the very opposite of that to them.

[–]SnowAssMan 11 insightful - 4 fun11 insightful - 3 fun12 insightful - 4 fun -  (1 child)

I don't think that black gay men are more likely to transition. The higher up the class ladder you are the more neurotic you're going to end up being. Paraphilia like Autogynaephila are a symptom of that.

[–]PenseePansyBio-Sex or Bust 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I don't think that black gay men are more likely to transition.

Just to clarify: I agree; they aren't (or at least that's my impression). It can just appear that way because STRAIGHT black men "transitioning" seems virtually unheard of.

As a result, pretty much the only black "transwomen" that you see are gay men. Their presence is so noticeable due to black "transbians'" (i.e., straight men's) absence. And also, probably, since this contrasts so dramatically with the situation among white "transwomen", where straight men are VERY well-represented (not to mention loud).