during your superstraight phase were you attracted to trans women who had bottom surgery (so no penis) or was the mere historical gender enough to put you off?
“How did I feel about trans women in the 90s and 2000s” is really complicated by the way that trans identity was being gatekept on passing in those days
Like, part of that was va-va-voom presentation was kinda pressured against in favor of a more “achievable” edge-of-dowdy turtleneck sweater county librarian look, which was honestly not the sexy kind of librarian
Part of it is it makes the question “what would you think of someone who was fairly indistinguishable from cis (well back then, ‘normal’) girls, but just with the 'trans’ label affixed?”
Which was then more significant and weighted because the identifier of trans alone was more out there and loaded then, like the representations of “trans” at all in my lifetime up to the mid-late 2000s were
Maybe someone could’ve broken through, but if like I was filtering a dating search I would have left the “MTF” box unchecked
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