Also average tumblr user does not know what a chaser is (hint: it isn’t when you are attracted to trans women)
Chasers are people who will actively go after vulnerable groups of people to sexually exploit.
In the case of chasers who go after transfems, they are looking for transfems who are emotionally vulnerable and crave validation so they can manipulate them. At best they will treat transfems in seemingly nice ways (to fuck us). At worst they will treat us like a disposable sex object who should shut the fuck up when not in use. They disregard boundaries, they project transmisogynistic tropes onto the transfems they prey on, they exoticise transfems and will generally treat us like shit with just enough validation to keep them in the relationship.
Ultimately, a chaser is never even someone who is genuinely just attracted to transfems. Chasers mainly just see trans women as easy prey or as whatever fantasy they have from shitty porn and not as people.
Chaser is not a “haha funny meme word”. It’s a term for a type of predators and bigots.
No actually we don’t need to do that. We don’t need to “reclaim” a word that means sexual predator. We don’t need that. There is nothing to be gained from that. T4T attraction isn’t being a chaser. Framing it as that is harmful in that it encourages and normalises chasers and simultaneously stigmatises our attraction to each other. We don’t need to associate chasers with just being attracted to trans people. There is literally nothing to be gained from “reclaiming” this. Did you not fucking read the post above???
