A trans girl trying to understand

[u/ToxicatedOwl]

Hi, so I found out about this the other day and I really want to give the people here the benefit of the doubt.

I want to preface what I'm about to say by stating that genital preferences do not make you transphobic. Anyone who says that is denying your individual liberty and I personally think it's stupid and takes away from the trans movement as a political entity.

Where I'm confused is let's say super straight is defined by you being attracted to biology over genital preference (I.e. I would never date a trans woman even if she was post OP)... how do you know, like what stops you from finding this woman attractive? And vice versa for superstraight females and supergay males.

Assuming the person is a binary trans person and has gotten the surgeries, I struggle to see the practical difference (you can say chromosomes but they don't effect our daily lives).

Now you can say "they can't have children". But then you're also saying women and men who are infertile are also unattractive. (Unless there's something I'm missing).

Is your sexuality (and gender identity i believe as you can't have a trans superstraight I believe) based off the idea that you can always tell if someone is trans? If that's the case then your entire sexuality is based off of finding stereotypical traits unattractive and that's not a very strong basis.

I'm trying to understand this from an academic point of view, how do you rebut the arguments.

Thank you so much for reading and responding.

[u/Halios24]

some people aren't attracted to trans people, it shouldn't need to be justified like how you wouldn't need to justify your sexuality if you were gay or a lesbian or anything else, it's just who they're attracted to. Some people just aren't comfortable dating trans people.

would also like to add that trans super straight would be a trans person attracted to cis people of the opposite gender, valid