With all the coverage on TV and online recently, I just wanted to ask you guys a question - would you date a transgender person? Reasoning is cool, saying yes or no is cool, just don't put any dumb in the comments
I'm saying that gender is a glorified deal breaker. It's a big enough deal for people to use labels like gay/straight/bi/whatever, whereas we lack concise labels for "dater only of non-tattooed people" or "dater only of people with a college degree," but really the matter of whether or not you'd date someone of a certain gender falls under the same umbrella category as these things. And I probably can't prove it, but I think it's the human condition to discover and reserve exceptions, for oneself, to all deal breakers. I used to loathe tattoos because I was raised by WASP-y Americans. Then I met someone with tattoos and I realized that that's a ridiculous reason to rule out someone to whom you're really attracted. Obviously gender preference is a much bigger deal than tattoos, it's genetically ingrained, etc., but I don't see any reason to think it's set in stone. Heterosexuality isn't a choice, but it's also not an immutable law.
I dont get how you can argue that a) Homosexuality isnt a choice while also saying that b) you're transphobic if you're certain that you will never date a transperson due to their physical differences of the real deal
I couldn't care less if you call yourself straight - I do - but I really think that the label of heterosexuality means that you're generally - even 99.99999% of the time, but NOT universally - attracted to women, not men. But I can't accept the idea that (a) there is not a single person of your gender whom you'd date and (b) it's actually impossible as a matter of theory for there to exist someone of your gender whom you'd date.
