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deartranspeople:

“Why am I trans*phobic if I say I’m not attracted to/wouldn’t sleep with a MTF?

I’m a lesbian, and the things I love about women aren’t normally present in MTFs. I love hips(women’s hips, something that hormones can’t change), and tiny girls (like 5’ish, not super common for an MTF). It’s no…

Because you’re basically saying that you know what every trans woman on the planet is like. You’re assuming that all trans women are the same, when they are very diverse, just like cis women. You don’t know who you will be attracted to in the future. It’s one thing to say “I’ve never been attracted to a trans woman” versus I’d never date one. I mean come on, you find a girl, she turns out to be trans and suddenly it’s out of the question? When people say that they wouldn’t date a trans woman, it’s more often than not because of a common misconception that trans women are ugly and always more masculine looking than cis women, when that isn’t the truth at all.

Also, you are using cissexist language. Please do not use terms like “biological female” and “women’s hips”(wide hips would have worked just fine). When you say stuff like that, you imply that trans women aren’t really women and that is hurtful. MTF is not a noun, also, the correct term is trans woman. As Ameliated said, saying that you are attracted only to feminine looking women is totally legit.