I remember a long time back watching some daytime talk show, don't remember which one, that was about trans women. They were pretty common. It's kind of disturbing when you think about it because they're milking anything with shock value. Now that trans people are becoming more accepted, I wonder what will be their next gimmick.
Anyway, they had a straight guy on who was dating one of the trans women. She revealed that she was pre-op and I can't remember which but either had no intentions of surgery or was at least in no hurry or was unsure. They asked the guy, who was an absolutely drop-dead gorgeous and very masculine hunk of a guy (trust me, I'm gay. I'm an authority), why he would date a trans woman over a cis woman (not their verbiage of course). He explained that his girlfriend seemed way more feminine than most of the women he'd ever met. I think ignorant people in the audience probably jumped to the irrational conclusion that maybe he was a little bit gay, but the reality was he was attracted to someone who seemed intensely feminine in a world where that was becoming more rare. She was very beautiful, btw, like model material.
I feel it's important to note how much of that was societally constructed though. She was more in line with an extremely traditional notion of femininity. How much of that is nature over nurture is probably a big point of contention between different viewpoints.
