Which community do you feel most comfortable hanging out with?

[MsDazzler]

Let's say. ideally (assuming your family and friends are accepting, you have not lost anybody because of transitioning, you are out at your job, you have a partner who knows and accept, etc)

Which community would you prefer to hang out with:

Straight/Bi natal males                         Straight/Bi FTMs

Gay/Bi natal males                                Gay/Bi FTMs

Straight/Bi natal females                       Straight/Bi MTFs

Lesbian/Bi natal females                        Lesbian/Bi MTFs

The reason I ask this is because, for example, I know for some trans people, they feel like they have no choice but to hang out with other transgender people because their families and friends rejects them but some trans people prefer to hang out with other trans peopl exclusively.... etc, etc

Also, as an other example,  I have noticed in my real-life observations that you barely or hardly see FTMs hanging out with MTFs. By choice?

So who would YOU prefer to hang out with?

[stldrmgrl]

I am not specific in each person's orientation for which I hang out with.  Quite frankly it's irrelevant to me on a friendship basis.

[Whitney]

Girls who wear flannel. I'm loose about how you define girl, but flannel, that's not budging. 

[Lily]

Both of my friends right now are mtf. I don't really know anyone else. I've always kinda been that way, just having two or three friends. I'm a very private person and it takes a lot of emotional energy to open up to someone enough to even be a friend. I tend to gravitate toward people who have similarities to me so that maybe there will be some degree of understanding right away.

[Torn1990]

gender queer
or queer folks of all kinds

[apple pie]

I am not specific in each person's orientation for which I hang out with.  Quite frankly it's irrelevant to me on a friendship basis.

Same for me. I've never gone anywhere specifically where LGBT people hang out. And though I am considerably more likely to develop a deeper friendship with girls, I like to have fun with the boys too and just muck around and do things together, etc.

They may happen to be trans or gay, but it doesn't affect whether I want to hang around with them.
I don't actually have any trans friend in real life, but only because I haven't come across one whom I have a chance of knowing (or maybe I have and don't know that he or she is trans).

[lonely girl]

I don't care  but I know none TS IRL that lives in the city. Maybe just a coincidence... but alot of friends I met normally at HS/Uni turned out to be gay/les/bi lmao...

[AndromedaVox]

Straight/Bi and gay males.

Real girls are catty, transgirls I barely know any in my area...I won't even get started on lezzies.

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Real girls? Really?

[Rabbit]

The friends I hang out with most are cis straight (one is a tiny bi curious) girls.

I have guy friends, but found they just start to annoy me with their crude jokes... and tend to not be too open about things.

My girlfriends are really open though and we can chat about anything (like sex, which guys would super rarely talk about and not too openly). I also found I have a lot in common with the girls (like even similar tastes in men).

[Padma]

Each person's different from the next, individually - but collectively?

I spent yesterday evening visiting an LGBT cafe where I'm planning to volunteer, and it ended up being me, and 5 gay guys. They spent the whole evening setting the world to rights, making innuendos about each other's arses, and comparing their mobile phones . Oh yes, and they were woefully uninformed about trans issues. Sure, it's not a statistically significant sample, but I generally have a much better time hanging out with non-straight women in groups . Individually, I like who I like, gender/sexuality/whatever regardless.

[justmeinoz]

At the moment I think I'd prefer to hang out with muso's and motorcyclists if I had to nominate anyone other than my friends. 

[JennX]

I like to hang out with cool, like-minded people... and prefer not to classify them beyond that? 

[Erin H]

most of my friends are straight/bi girls but i have a few straight/bi boys who i am friends with

I know no TS people at all in person but i have some TS friends online x x

[JenJen2011]

I just hang out with all my loving family and partner.

[lonely girl]

I know no TS people at all in person but i have some TS friends online x x

Like me <3

[Amazon D]

Farmers and conservationist and both have to be hard workers because unless your disabled i don't care for lazy people. However, i do realize some people don't know how to find or make work (which basically means being creative) and so i may include them in the disabled category 

[ClockworkAnna]

I am not specific in each person's orientation for which I hang out with.  Quite frankly it's irrelevant to me on a friendship basis.

This, by chance most of my friends of lesbians. I do feel somewhat uncomfortable around males but I try not to let that change anything. 

[eli77]

On an individual basis, or with people who are already friends, it is totally irrelevant. But groups of strangers - I'm more comfortable around other girls. I think just out of habit. I went into an arts program for writing in high school, then English literature in university, and then finally editing for post-grad. That means being around 95% women, basically.

[Lynn]

I prefer to hang out with people I happen to like. That's pretty much my only requirement.

[Annah]

I hang out with my friends and acquaintances. I don't look at sexuality or gender identification as a deciding factor with whom I will hang out with.