sometimes i get the impression that tme queers do not realize that trans women are, in fact, greatly desired sexually and very much threatened by sexual assault. the way they bring up the sexual assault of tme people as like… a gotcha when discussing transmisogyny, or how me pointing out that certain art/gaming/anime tropes are fetishized trans women completely bounces off of them. like they hear cishet dudes loudly bragging about how they wouldn’t fuck a trans women and like… took that at face value?
trans women are women men are allowed to hit; we have less social protection than cis (and particularly white cis) women. trans women are a politically charged topic and a taboo among conservatives, which of course gives us mystique and allure to them. if you are at all discussing trans women with the assumption that we’re not common, vulnerable victims of the worst of men’s sexuality, you are simply Wrong.
the second most popular representation of trans womanhood in media after “perverted freak who will assault you” is “dead sex worker”.