I sometimes think I picked the wrong thing to draw for people. TG stuff seems to be really popular. I don't feel right drawing TG fetish art though, feels like fetishing trans people.
on the one hand, there is a very fine line to walk around fetishising trans people, absolutely agree, but on the other hand I can't deny that even beyond the sexualisation, TG stories and comics in general were kind of important to me and other transfolk I've talked to, especially while I was still in the closet
I'm sure there's pages and pages of discourse about the relationships trans folk have with their bodies and how that especially feeds into their ability to be comfortable sexually, which anecdotally is something I have and continue to struggle with, even 7 years after transitioning, and on some level stuff like this weirdly helps - but ultimately only if its done well, if it's done poorly it can have the exact opposite effect
I also want to note I don't want to erase other people's opinions and experiences of the reverse of this, this is ultimately partially anecdotal
Thank you for your thoughts. I've worried that my "refusal" to draw fetish art of trans women would be a form of erasure, trans people are still sexual people after all, but as a straight cis man, I've largely determined that any work I do drawing that sort of thing would just encourage chasers and fetishisation of trans people.
I've been hired to draw tasteful trans art in the past, it's only the explicitly fetish art that I don't feel comfortable drawing trans people. (it's usually pretty obvious when someone wants me to draw something because they really want to express an idea, and when they just want to get to enjoy their kink).
I sometimes think I picked the wrong thing to draw for people. TG stuff seems to be really popular. I don't feel right drawing TG fetish art though, feels like fetishing trans people.
it's complicated, speaking as a trans woman
on the one hand, there is a very fine line to walk around fetishising trans people, absolutely agree, but on the other hand I can't deny that even beyond the sexualisation, TG stories and comics in general were kind of important to me and other transfolk I've talked to, especially while I was still in the closet
I'm sure there's pages and pages of discourse about the relationships trans folk have with their bodies and how that especially feeds into their ability to be comfortable sexually, which anecdotally is something I have and continue to struggle with, even 7 years after transitioning, and on some level stuff like this weirdly helps - but ultimately only if its done well, if it's done poorly it can have the exact opposite effect
I also want to note I don't want to erase other people's opinions and experiences of the reverse of this, this is ultimately partially anecdotal
Thank you for your thoughts. I've worried that my "refusal" to draw fetish art of trans women would be a form of erasure, trans people are still sexual people after all, but as a straight cis man, I've largely determined that any work I do drawing that sort of thing would just encourage chasers and fetishisation of trans people.
I've been hired to draw tasteful trans art in the past, it's only the explicitly fetish art that I don't feel comfortable drawing trans people. (it's usually pretty obvious when someone wants me to draw something because they really want to express an idea, and when they just want to get to enjoy their kink).