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If you keep digging you could easily end up spoiling things for yourself... But that's not how it is. The sex is fantastic! Just before I met my current dude 4.
Putting on the dress and the ring and legally binding yourself to a person of the opposite sex can wreak havoc not only on your gay credentials but on your own self-perception. Most dudes assume that lesbians and bi women think the same thing, partly because so much porn shows lesbians strapping on. That slice of suck has been happening every two to thirty minutes for your girl every single day since she was about eight years old. So many people act like bisexuality is this weigh station between gay and straight, but it's not.
- She explained to me that it just kind of happened in a drunken haze, as she felt a subconscious part of herself come to the surface to express its curiosity about being with another woman.
This is a letter to P, who was always gentle. To S — with whom the sex was freaking unbelievable. To J, always punning and making me laugh; and to E, who is always truthful. This is a letter to all the men, both cisgender and transgender, who have ever loved me, and to all the men I will ever love. I want you to know that I see you, I appreciate you, even when I am challenging you to treat women like me — trans women and women of color — better than men in this society are taught to. I know that being a man who is dating a trans woman who is outspoken and only sometimes passes is not always an easy thing. Both of these things are true because of the that still runs rampant in our society and the communities we live in. And while this discrimination and hatred is mainly leveled toward girls like me, I know that some of it is reflected onto you as well. This is something that is so, so hard to talk about. Part of the difficulty, I know, is that you may not want to admit that being attracted to, going out with, and having sex with trans women comes with. Another part is that trans feminists like myself believe that any discussion of transmisogyny must center around trans women ourselves. Men who date trans women are not murdered regularly the way that we are. But neither can I pretend that you live your life totally free from the violence and humiliation that a transmisogynistic culture attaches to my body — a body that you have touched and held and become associated with. And as much as we may wish that things were different, you and I know that there are so many walls that lie in the way of our loving each other. These barriers have caused us to question ourselves, and our relationships. Often, we fought about them. Sometimes, we broke up because of them. But the truth is, this is world that often necessitates both. Whether I like it or not, I am in this fight to the end. I have to be. You, however, have a choice: your privilege allows you to choose whether you want to walk away from the struggle that is loving trans women, or stay fighting with us. And if you should choose the latter — and I hope you do — then there are a few things I need you to know about shame, loving trans women, and loving yourself. Past, present, and future boyfriends, I need to tell you something: If you identify as straight, then you can date trans women. If you are bisexual, you can date trans women. You and only you get to decide how to define your sexual orientation. Some of you are, or have been, those men. How many tabloid stories proclaim that a male celebrity has been as though this were shocking, sensational news? But neither my body nor your attraction to it is disgusting or sensational or ill. My body is beautiful, and so is your love. If we are abnormal, that means only that our relationship is different from the one prescribed to us by society. And there is nothing repulsive about that. Cis men are not alone in this — trans men, too, are affected by the backlash that comes from dating trans women. What you have to understand is that these attacks come from a place of fear. You, me, and our relationships are all very frightening to men whose sense of confidence and power come from reinforcing patriarchy. It forces all men to question their belief in the foundations of their identity and privilege. Yours is, or will be, strong, because it is learning how to stand on its own. I come across them all the time on OKCupid. But you and I are much more than that. Our relationships have been deeper and more complex than any cliché could ever hope to contain. And no amount of ridiculous jokes can ever take that from us. This is insulting to you and me. I am not something you have to pity in order to love. Our relationship is not defined by the judgments of others, or even by the violence that I — and by extension, you — experience in the world. But real relationships — like ours — are dynamic and transforming, constantly opening up into new dimensions. At our best, I learn from you and you, from me. We fight, we hurt each other, we heal, we grow. We leave and come back together and leave once again. The only person you need to save is yourself. It wants to swallow everyone and everything. Because of this, whenever people talk about me, they usually refer to me in terms of my gender identity. How can we not be anxious and angry, when your families get uncomfortable when they find out who your partner is, when your friends snicker at us behind your back, when we have to be wary of violence when we go out at night? But just as I am more than a trans woman, you are more than someone who loves trans women. Choices like this are never easy. But in the process of making them, you just might find a whole new truth about who you are. This Is How You Love a Trans Woman Dear boyfriends past and present: Thank you for being with me. But some trans women — like me — do want to be with men who know how to do the thing, and do it well. You do it the way you ought to love anybody else: not fearlessly, but courageously. Kai Cheng Thom is a Contributing Writer for Everyday Feminism. She is a Chinese trans woman writer, poet, and performance artist based in Montreal. You can find out more about her work on her and at.
Would you date a bisexual person?
I don't feel any mourning for my access to breasts, any more than I mourn for my access to other dudes. We had several breakups before we were married during which I had relationships almost exclusively with women. This is partly due to the fact that as these men tried to understand their sexuality, they also questioned the most negative aspects of masculine character traits: including aggression. Your penis is your general, not your only soldier. I also started to realize that strict monogamy may not be the fub idea for me. Makes me feel settled on. For all of the questions you asked, I think a lot of girls ask about their boyfriends. I grew up in the South and, for example, after fooling around with a friend from school, I got teased and met a lesbian. She can talk to other people without catching feelings Calm down, she was just ordering a macchiato. Tease her a little bit, spiral inward from least sensitive to most sensitive areas, and let the sensations build.
