Transgender & Being Sexual: The Double-Edged Sword of Transphobia
http://www.bilerico.com/2009/07/transgender_being_sexual_the_double-edged_sword_of.php7/29/09
Transgender has often been cast as a fetish, a going-wrong of sexual desires. So this sets up a conflict where ordinary sexual expression of a transgender person is labelled fetishistic so some reject such behaviour in themselves and others, condemning the sexually expressive as bringing problems onto the whole transgender community.
Others internalized transphobia results in them trying to excuse their transgender nature as purely sexual. This may be conscious or unconscious. But as they grow in self-acceptance many self-proclaimed fetishists find that the more they accept being transgender to some extent the more non-sexual TG aspects of themselves get unlocked after years of repression.
Seems a bad 'devil and the deep' scenario already huh? But it gets worse.
Many wonder why if studies suggest TG is comparably common to GLB then why is it so invisible, so closeted?
