As the title says: Did transition change your sexual preference?

If it did, why do you think it changed? What caused the change?

It kinda did

Since I got more emotional with hormones and had less interest in sex I turned more into a lesbian

I'll kick off with an answer too..

I think it did.. I went in to transition thinking I was a straight woman, after all, I'd been a gay guy.. Transition led me to truly love myself, which allowed me to love another.. Just wasn't expecting it to be a woman. A little reflection made me realised that I had never loved a man, not even the one I wanted to, but I had loved women. So, as it turns out, I'm a lesbian.

I can't say much has changed at all since starting HRT and transitioning. I still prefer and am attracted to the female form. By extension of that I am also attracted to some transwomen too; whether they are pre,non or post op.

Guys are well um guys. I just see them as people to whom I could be friends with on a platonic level and nothing more.

For me it did, but whether that HRT I'm not sure.

Pre-HRT, as stated by myself many times I was solely into females, as I went full time, started HRT and started to see myself with other females out and about, I started to like males.

It has now moved to a point where the last thing I could see myself doing was being with a female.

My sexuality has remained the same (lesbian), but my views on it have changed a lot since transition. When I was living as male, it was mostly just about what turned me on physically. Now I'm almost completely uninterested in that aspect of it, and it's more about the deep emotional connection I can form with another woman.

I was bi before and am still bi.I generally had more girlfriends than boyfriends before though now it's the other way round.

Quote from: Leila on September 04, 2014, 03:54:55 AM
I can't say much has changed at all since starting HRT and transitioning. I still prefer and am attracted to the female form. By extension of that I am also attracted to some transwomen too; whether they are pre,non or post op.

Guys are well um guys. I just see them as people to whom I could be friends with on a platonic level and nothing more.

My thought's exactly except I now find guys physically attractive but not more physically attractive than women and I'm not emotionally attracted to them either so I still identify as a lesbian.

Quote from: Lady_Oracle on September 04, 2014, 06:16:40 AM
My thought's exactly except I now find guys physically attractive but not more physically attractive than women and I'm not emotionally attracted to them either so I still identify as a lesbian.

Thats pretty much a perfect answer for how I feel as well. I can just never see myself reaching a deep emotional connection with a guy. If I wasn't married though I would take a few out for a spin just for fun If I had to rate it, I'm a Kinsey scale 4 lesbian.

Seems to be widening to include some male interest... but no where near my attraction to women.  No real surprise, I pashed a couple of guys in the past, so clearly that door was ajar at least.

I think it is more a need to be found attractive by straight men as a qualifier for my femininity.  If I was single I would probably explore that area at some stage.

I looked at the kinsey scale test and got a 4 or 5.

No, I'd say it's kinda just changed a lot on its own. After swaying polarities a bit, I finally realized I'm just really not specifically attracted to representations of either gender in particular - that it's individual people that intrigue me.

Well,  since I'm haven't started my transition yet,  I can only guess what will happen.  I believe that the transition is not a only physical chance,  it is social,  emotional and mental too.  So,  our perceptions of course change,  I think it's only natural that our sexual preferences will be affected too.

Quote from: kelly_aus on September 04, 2014, 03:38:48 AM
As the title says: Did transition change your sexual preference?

If it did, why do you think it changed? What caused the change?

It "opened" it up a bit. As I started thinking of myself as a soft female, the touch of a male didn't seem so icky. This happened before my first hormone pill.

That being said, I still haven't come across a male that I'm physically attracted to. OTOH, I'm not physically very attracted to females my age either.

I was kinda hoping hormones would open up my dating pool a bit, but turns out it seemed to strengthen my sexual preference towards women alone. So I am a lesbian, and I liked women before so I can't say it changed my preference. It did lead to a clearer understanding of what I like to look like, versus what I would like potential partners to look like.

Coming out allowed me to come to grips with the fact that I am bi. It cleared the air for some repressed memories to surface.

As I've told people since then, I've realized that I no longer care what's between my partner's legs. I just care about what's between mine (hence wanting GCS).

In the years since transitioning I have started calling myself queer rather than a lesbian as I'm attracted to female identified people rather than female bodied people and that just seems to fit better.

Before transition I presented as a mostly straight guy... since transitioning I've pretty much been cemented as a lesbian. I might be able to have a purely sexual relationship with a guy if they presented as somewhat androgynously, but I don't think that would particularly count, considering I'd still be pursuing them more for their feminine features than anything 'male'.

To label myself I've considered myself asexual for years.  The few sexual encounters I've had in my adolescence I feel were driven by the pressures of peers and society.  Since starting HRT I've been able to see attractive traits of both males and females; However, I'm totally unsure of what I would even want from a relationship and still have no sexual desire.

I used to be bisexual, but after so many years of HRT, I can say I'm entirely straight and only interested in men. It was a very gradual change.

Yes, unfortunately. I never expected that to happen nor was ready for that. When I realised what had happened the feeling was "WTF? Why???".  Since teens I never dismissed the prospect as such, but what initially was just a thought or two was never played out  - because I obviously had the wrong bits and as I grew older, I kinda realised that naked male body does not turn me on at all...
Why did that happened... dunno. Maybe some part of my brain was wired that way and just needed some sort of stimulation (in the form of HRT). And it is ironical that now I look at female bodies and dont really feel anything apart of envy and jealously.
Seriously, from pragmatic and practical point of view - female body has only one natural purpose for which it is fitted at its best (and that kind of "use" will never ever happen in my life) and pretty much sucks at everything else - in comparison with male body... It is softer and squishier, can lift less, will run slower, when it falls or bumps into something - it hurts more and heals longer... Anyway - I would not want to change back, not at all. But... yeah, was not really what I was expecting . And now I have all those "qualities" and they totally dont turn me on in other women - which sucks too, because dating men is much scarier than dating women.
Also, it tends to become a bit annoying when meeting male friends (formerly, buddies...), cause it adds sexual tension in most casual settings, especially, if I find him attractive and interesting.