"I'm Attracted To Trans Women"...

[GRH]

FairyInBoots, the problem is that anytime you add "transgendered" to the sexuality mix, it inevitably complicates things beyond the standard "in the box" system that we use to classify sexuality.

If a "straight" man likes women, he is straight. If he likes transwomen...Is he still straight? If he is attracted to a cock (male genitalia) but to feminine features, still straight? Gay? Bi? When you add in the fact that you are a transman, and you consider that you are attracted to transwomen...Who can say what you are? The biological woman in you that is attracted to a biological man would make you straight. The biological woman in you that is attracted to a gender-identifying female would make you gay. The male-identifying part of your gender that is attracted to a woman (whether trans or cis) would make you straight. But the male-indentifying part of your gender that is attracted to male genitalia (whether on transwomen or cis-men) would make you gay.

Where do you draw the line? I don't think it really matters to be honest, beyond being comfortable with yourself. The transgendered orientation (whether you ARE trans, or are attracted to trans) just throws a monkey wrench in the conventional way of labeling sexuality. To be honest, around here I tend to call men gay who like trans, if only because I know that they are struggling with their sexuality, and I think they need to get comfortable with the fact that they will be perceived as "gay" for liking trans, regardless of how they reconcile their own sexuality in their own minds.