I'm a straight, cis woman, and my partner is FtM. Though I am not looking for any other partner right now (too in love, can't imagine it!), I sometimes wonder, if I did move on some day, would I prefer my next partner to be FtM or cis?
The truth is, now that I've been with my FtM SO, cismen, bless their hearts, and their energy (cuz I do love male energy), seem like the biggest doofuses. Though I would never wish the difficulty of a trans life on anyone, I see my FtM partner as being way more interesting, emotionally wiser, and deeper than most people, because he walked in female shoes for a while. He relates to me more easily. I actually look at my exes (all cismen) and think, Yeah, that guy might have been richer (I mean emotionally, intellectually) if he'd been trans instead.
So it's very easy to picture myself preferring transmen to cismen.
I have one acquaintance who now dates only transmen, for a very similar reason. She prefers them on an emotional level, to the cismen she dated before.
I have another acquaintance who physically doesn't particularly like penises, but loves male energy and only gets excited by men. So she is with a transman too.
I know yet another person, who chases transmen for sexual reasons. She seems to want to sleep with as many as possible. To be honest, I think she kind of uses people, and likes power games. I don't admire her kind of chasing.
So I guess there are multiple types of admirers out there. Multiple motivations.
Weird sex-->-bleeped-<-s aside, I hope it will eventually be seen as normal and healthy, that a person prefers trans partners to cispartners. I think trans people have something to offer to partners, that cis people do not.
Elizabeth