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DiscussionWhat’s Wrong with Rejecting Someone ‘Trans’?
The reason that I don’t want to be with a TIM is because they are male. The reason that I don’t want to be with a TIF is that I find the self-hatred unattractive.
But aside from these reasons, what is wrong with not wanting to date someone because they are ‘trans’? How is it any different to dating someone with wildly different religious or political views? I was just thinking today about how many ‘left wing’ activists would probably never want to date a fundamentalist Christian or a conservative, so what makes transgenderism special in this regard?
Edit: I think where my thoughts are going with this is that heterosexual people in particular, who can be afford to be choosy about who they date, often seem to see lesbians as a dumping ground for ‘unwanted men’. I think it echoes that comment from heterosexual men that lesbians are only homosexual because we are ‘too ugly to get a man’ and not because we are only attracted to women. So perhaps they think that we are being ‘ungrateful’ for rejecting TIMs on some level, ignoring the fact that lesbians are badgered just as much, if not more, than other women, precisely because men see us as a ‘challenge’.