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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are you struggling to accept trans people in general, or just their dating habits, OP? I think that once you truly accept and understand (as much as anyone can who hasn't personally experienced being transgender) that some people are transgender and that's okay, most other aspects of trans life fall into place. This means letting go of worrying about which sex organs a person is born with and accepting that the gender a person identifies as is who they are. If Sam is a trans man, he identifies as male, we see him as male, so we shouldn't question him wearing masculine clothes, having facial hair, using the men's restroom, or identifying as straight when he dates women. That's how we'd identify other men who date women, right? Not that it's really any of our business anyway :) 
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OP here, and I really appreciate all the responses.  To PP, as I thought I stated clearly, I have no problems with acceptance and tolerance, I just don't understand.  If you read the article I linked to, the trans individual identified as straight in their "new" gender but had not had surgery and was not understanding why heterosexual individuals didn't want to date them.  [/quote]

Pp here, yes sorry, I was responding to the poster who suggested all of those things could be so separate. To plenty of straight and gay people, they are not.

I don't think that will change across the population as a whole, but it is definitely a challenging part of the transgender communities' experience... I sort of think that it will stay that way. I dont think you can expect people to be attracted to you in defiance of what they find attractive bc of how you identify. [/quote]

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