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[–]Rage-Xion[S] 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

According to the article, prior transition, she was in a lesbian relationship si I don't know if she's straight.

[–]Horror-SwordfishI don't get how flairs work 12 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 0 fun13 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

That's what struck me as strange - from lesbian woman to gay man? What a weird move.

[–]reluctant_commenter 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I've posted a comment about this couple times-- here's one theory I have for why there's this "lesbian woman to gay man" mini-trend:

  1. woman is unaware of, denies, or downplays her interest in men/dick (i.e., closet bisexual who thinks she is lesbian)

  2. woman starts on testosterone

  3. testosterone heightens sexual arousal

  4. woman is suddenly more aware of her sexual arousal and what she actually wants-- which is dick

  5. "testosterone made me want dick!" when the picture is more complicated than that.

Also a possibility, though less likely IMO:

confused lesbians getting some wires crossed. (For example, I have felt pressured to 1. be straight / pretend I am a straight man, and 2. be attracted to males. Had I ended up transitioning, I might have tried to compensate for both these cognitive distortions and and ended up claiming I was a "gay trans man.")

Third possibility: She is only dating other "gay transmen." That is, she is still dating women.

[–]HelloMomo 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I just read Louise Perry's The Case Against The Sexual Revolution which is about, more than anything, the asymmetry between men and women in heterosexuality. Particularly, two major things are: the desire for causal sex, and the threshold for sexual disgust. Men are consistently and cross-culturally higher in desire for causal sex, and lower in the threshold for sexual disgust. (Although arousal lowers the threshold for sexual disgust in everyone. Like, someone else getting their spit on you is normally gross. But when people are turned on, this can be overlooked.)

I'm not sure what features of physiology cause this, but if hormone levels are a central factor... then I could see how a bisexual woman with her natural hormones might find it easier to find commandability with another woman, and then if she goes on T an her sex drive changes, then she might find men more sexually compatible to her. I think this is more or less what detransitioner and bi woman Sinead Watson describes happening to her: T cranked up her sex drive and she was super horny all the time, and it awakened her dormant bisexuality. Although she doesn't say she's only into men now: she says she's bi. Which sounds like a very normal-person take on it, and adds to my idea that people who don't are saying so because they have a yaoi fetish or something.