Mac_094 t1_ix9i6su wrote on November 21, 2022 at 7:49 PM

Reply to comment by goodboinoban in Transgender activists demand equal rights, protection in Pakistan’s ‘first’ trans rights march in Karachi, Pakistan by Arya9019slp

The problem is that many trans people aren't straight. IE, there are some people who were born "male" and are attracted to women but transition into lesbians and some people who were born "female" and are attracted to men and transition into gay guys. (And obviously trans people can belong to any of the rest of the spectrum of bi, pan, ace etc). Part of why trans people joined the greater LGBTQ community is because there's such a big overlap of trans people who are also L/G/B/Q.

This was actually a big issue with trans rights in western countries in the past and still a bit to this day. Even many "trans-friendly" doctors would deny people transition if they didn't have "gender-appropriate" sexual attraction. Which (in part) led to a long and storied practice of trans people lying through their teeth and saying whatever the doctors wanted to hear in order to get care.

shariewayne t1_ixaggxz wrote on November 21, 2022 at 11:49 PM

> one study found that 77% of trans people surveyed identified as gay, bi, queer or something else other than straight.

I question a 'study', that is nothing more than a pie chart with no source material, with their link going to a dead site. There are interesting studies and articles about the change of sexual attraction of Trans people during HRT and before/after Bottom Surgery that are more than just one pie-chart.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4192544/

https://www.them.us/story/sexual-attraction-after-transition

chemguy216 t1_ix9rxoj wrote on November 21, 2022 at 8:53 PM

It also led to interesting laws trying to prevent gay marriage in some US states before the Obergefell decision. Some states didn’t want to recognize trans people’s gender status, so if your sex was male and you were a trans woman, the law allowed you to marry a woman but not a man.

In some states, trans people would be recognized for their gender identity and were only allowed to marry accordingly. So a trans woman was viewed as a woman and was only allowed to marry a man.