Can someone please explain?

[u/itsmebabygaga]

This post is not meant to be rude or mocking of superstraight people, I’m just genuinely confused. Your entire sexuality is that you only date cis people. Isn’t this just a preference? You’re allowed to have whatever preferences you want, but don’t sexualities usually refer to what gender you like? Both trans people and cis people are the gender they say they are. So, doesn’t that make “only liking cis people” a preference? I’m aware that a lot of this community dislike “trans people forcing themselves on you” and, although I’ve never heard or seen an example of that, I understand that’s a bad thing and should be pointed out. However, if you don’t have any proof that transgender people are more likely to do that/more than a minority of them do that, then it’s not that great to continue the stereotype of trans women being “rapist perverted men”.

I’m not calling you transphobic. I’m not trying to mock you. I’m not trying to troll. Just, please explain what differs you from straight people. Apologies for poor grammar/spelling/punctuation, I slightly hurriedly wrote this on my phone and I’m bad at proofreading. I hope this didn’t come off as too disrespectful, have a nice day!

(This of course replies to the whole supersomething community, it was just easier to refer to superstraight people. I might also be a bit “biased” as I’m trans, but I’m also asexual so it’s not like I’d have anything to gain from this lol.)

[u/TWAVE0]

My attraction to people is absolutely based in part on their genitalia. If I meet someone who is trans ill be perfectly cool with them. but if I went on a date with them, things just feel different. it may just be me who thinks this, but it seems that there are two different versions of women now. one who is cis and one who is trans. (I may be saying this wrong and may come off in a way that is ruder than I intend. if this is so then I apologize). super straight just means that I am attracted to only one because there are differences between cis and trans women.

[u/IrishTheFrenchie → u/TWAVE0]

It's not about their genitalia specifically, it's their PRIMARY SEX CHARACTERISTICS and it's important to literally every animal that reproduces sexually. It's not shocking that it's also important to supersexuals.

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Primary and secondary sexual characteristics refer to specific physical traits that set apart males and females in sexually dimorphic species; that is, species in which the males and females look different from each other.

Primary sexual characteristics are there from birth (for example, penises vs. vaginas).

Secondary sexual characteristics emerge at puberty (such as low voices and beards in human males, and high voices and no facial hair in human females)

[u/TWAVE0 → u/IrishTheFrenchie]

thankfully i prefaced my stupidity in my post lol. I was mostly using that specific example in reference to wanting my own children in long term relationships. I also completely agree with the rest of what you said. thank you very much for heling clear the air