Here via someone else; I have no idea who you are but you seem genuinely engaged enough to suspend normal rules about talking to strangers on the internet.
I would not necessarily say "revolted", but I would say that in this day and age most straight people in Western culture might not be turned on by, or might not want to have sex with, a trans person. It's an upsetting view, but I certainly think it's a realistic one as the culture currently stands. Do you disagree?
A decent number of straight-identified men prefer trans women, at least for casual sexual encounters, for a myriad of reasons. Julia Serano's said this in Whipping Girl, the patterns of consumption of porn featuring trans women suggest this, and creepy men have told me this, sotto vocce, on airplanes.
The thing with transpeople is that there aren't enough of them yet that it becomes something that most people would want to check for.
I don't know, I bet you've interacted with at least five hundred women in your life (http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/TS/TSprevalence.html).
This is not to say that your argument is entirely without merit (although I disagree with you) or that I don't grapple with these questions of disclosure every time I accept an invitation to coffee. But you don't need to rely on empty thought experiments; we have data about incidence and reactions and related cultural artifacts.
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I would not necessarily say "revolted", but I would say that in this day and age most straight people in Western culture might not be turned on by, or might not want to have sex with, a trans person. It's an upsetting view, but I certainly think it's a realistic one as the culture currently stands. Do you disagree?
A decent number of straight-identified men prefer trans women, at least for casual sexual encounters, for a myriad of reasons. Julia Serano's said this in Whipping Girl, the patterns of consumption of porn featuring trans women suggest this, and creepy men have told me this, sotto vocce, on airplanes.
The thing with transpeople is that there aren't enough of them yet that it becomes something that most people would want to check for.
I don't know, I bet you've interacted with at least five hundred women in your life (http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/TS/TSprevalence.html).
This is not to say that your argument is entirely without merit (although I disagree with you) or that I don't grapple with these questions of disclosure every time I accept an invitation to coffee. But you don't need to rely on empty thought experiments; we have data about incidence and reactions and related cultural artifacts.