because people have been discussing this lately, i think it's worth a reminder that fetishization is more than finding someone attractive. i'm a trans woman and i think i look pretty good most of the time. my partner is trans and obviously i think she's attractive. it is not transphobic to find a trans person hot or to think about or portray them in a sexual context

now to be clear: fucking trans people is not activism. it's not something that needs to be celebrated, especially because in many cases it does come with fetishization. but it's also not something that should be treated as deviant, because it isn't. and acting like it is is itself a form of transphobia

  • Cromalin [she/her]M
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    11 months ago

    very well put. i have more thoughts bit am very tired rn so i will come back to that latet

    7 hours later i do not remember what my thoughts were. i agree with everything you say, but i wasn't sure how explicit to get in the og post and really my main goal was to make it clear to cis people that it's not chaser shit to simply portray a trans person having sex with a cis one, because i see that attitude a lot. (not just in that one post, this is something i've been meaning to talk about here for a while.) thank you for going into a lot more detail than i did