re: tap the sign meme, julia serano quote, trans gatekeeping, sexualisation
@hierarchon it's respectability politics, an attempt to try and distance trans women from the stereotype of being sexual fetishists or predators. but it's perfectly valid for sexuality to be a part of a trans person's gender identity, just as it's frequently part of cis people's gender identity
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