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[–]reluctant_commenter 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

It's important to adress that many HSTS have a fetish on straight men

Do you have a source or some reading material about this? I'd be curious to learn more. It does kinda seem like a difficult side effect to deal with after transitioning (presumably because of gender dysphoria)-- they'd have to either be content with chasers, with gay men who may not validate their trans identity, or try to persuade/pressure straight men, I guess.

[–]Neo_Shadow_LurkerPronouns: I/Don't/Care[S] 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Do you have a source or some reading material about this?

Blanchard touches on this specific subject in The Boy who would be Queen, it's just that people tend to focus on the 'AGP' part of book and not the HSTS one.

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Blanchard Bailey touches on this specific subject in The Boy Man who would be Queen.

many HSTS have a fetish on straight men

Not quite. They don't want to long-term partner with gay men on account of: if their partner is a gay man, then they're male, because gay men like men. They have a gender identity of female, so there's the conflict. Thus why they want straight men, because straight men want women, and they believe themselves to be or wish to be women.

Bailey never said that HSTS transition for the purpose of bedding straight men--that's something that the trifecta cabal accused him of. Dreger documented this; you can read her book Galileo's Middle Finger or her article in Archives of Sexual Behavior on it. You're brushing up on the trans Bailey-ad-hominem talking point.

"Gay men having a fetish for men." Really?

Same sort of reason why AGP pursue sex with men. They don't really care for the men, but having sex with men is something stereotypically female, so it's up for AGP grabs. Blanchard called that "pseudobisexuality." I don't think Blanchard was trying to work on a new typology in that regard (I'm sure he has one that he's not sharing,) just pointing out that he does not consider it to be bisexuality. In the case of HSTS, the men are the erotic locus, irrespective of the transsexualism, not an abstract concept of female that's validated by an activity of sex.

[–]Neo_Shadow_LurkerPronouns: I/Don't/Care[S] 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Blanchard Bailey touches on this specific subject in The Boy Man who would be Queen.

Thanks, got a little confused there!

"Gay men having a fetish for men." Really?

No men, straight men specifically.

Yes, some gay men do fetishise straight men, this is a very unconfortable thing for some to admit.

Some see seducing a straight man as a challenge, with the main catch being the supposed inaccessibility which comes with a them being straight.

This can reach very fucked up levels in some cases, as these types tend to threat fellow gay men like shit while fetishing straight men.