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despitegirls t1_jdpvjql wrote

Actual article title:

>Study examines straight men and their sexual attraction to transgender women

Having skimmed the actual study, I definitely read some of those posts at some point. I think there are straight identified guys who are realizing they are attracted more towards feminine presentations and not just cisgender women. Unfortunately, the misogyny they have for ciswomen also tracks with transwomen, with the added stereotypes of transwomen that come from their experience of transwomen being what they see online (my guess).

In the span of less than a decade, my views on trans people went from being pretty much a few casual stereotypes, to knowing/working with a few, to being in a relationship with a transwoman for several years now. I likely held some of the same stereotypes of transwomen until I actually worked with some in real life and got to see them as actual people, which makes the intended erasure of trans people we see all the more harmful.

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FourDimensionalTaco t1_jdtlg93 wrote

My problem with this article is that it makes it seem as if attraction towards trans women must always come with misogyny and objectification , which is not the case. You can find mtf women attractive without wanting to dominate them in that toxic manner or reducing them to their genitals.

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