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[–]hermiona52[S] 37 insightful - 14 fun37 insightful - 13 fun38 insightful - 14 fun -  (2 children)

Only 12% of all participants selected “trans woman” and/or “trans man.”

Virtually all heterosexuals excluded trans folks from their dating pool: only 1.8% of straight women and 3.3% of straight men chose a trans person of either binary gender. But most non-heterosexuals weren’t down for dating a trans person either, with only 11.5% of gay men and 29% of lesbians being trans-inclusive in their dating preferences.

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.

I guess the majority of people are TERFs haha. And I highlighted "surprisingly" from the last paragraph since if you're homosexual or heterosexual it shouldn't be surprising that how our bodies look derived from our sex is hugely important in those exclusive sexual orientations.

[–]yousaythosethings 36 insightful - 4 fun36 insightful - 3 fun37 insightful - 4 fun -  (1 child)

That’s what I came here to quote. All of the “surprisingly” and “presumably” language should smack everyone in the face as evidence that these idiots revised definitions of sexual orientation are the problem, not people’s dating habits. And how “trans-excluosionary” is a misnomer in many cases because a number of people are willing to date trans people whose biological sex is consistent with their sex-based orientation. Any sane person reading this gets it.

[–]mangofruit 7 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

It's like they did such a good job of educating people that gender and sex are different things that most people identify their attraction based on sex, not gender. Wow, who could have imagined?