There was so much "genital preference" discourse today.

I& #39;m usually too squeamish to talk about this, but I never see anyone say it out loud, so:

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="✨" title="Funken" aria-label="Emoji: Funken">Estrogenized dicks are not like cis men& #39;s dicks!https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="✨" title="Funken" aria-label="Emoji: Funken">

If you& #39;ve never interacted with one, you don& #39;t know anything about them!
Lots of trans women have neovaginas that& #39;re totally indistinguishable from natal vaginas. Lots of trans women don& #39;t take hormones & their anatomy is still female. Lots of trans folks are intersex.

But a pretty huge swath of trans women https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="✨" title="Funken" aria-label="Emoji: Funken">have a type of junk you& #39;ve never seen!https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="✨" title="Funken" aria-label="Emoji: Funken">
You know how awful it is when an ancient male senator without even a passing understanding of the cis female reproductive system tries to control it with legislation?

When you, as a cis person, opine about trans women& #39;s genitals barring us from lesbianism, https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="✨" title="Funken" aria-label="Emoji: Funken">that& #39;s you!https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="✨" title="Funken" aria-label="Emoji: Funken">
Transphobes love to talk about "basic biology," so here& #39;s some basic biology:

For the first two months of development, before hormones begin to differentiate them, all fetuses have an undifferentiated "genital ridge." All human junk springs from the same tissues & is analogous.
So what are estrogenized dicks like?

As with cis genitals, no two are exactly the same, but they& #39;re... a lot like if a vagina was shaped like a dick and testes.

Same textures, same smells, broadly similar reactions to stimulation, broadly similar patterns of arousal and climax.
Which is a point missing from these discussions:

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="✨" title="Funken" aria-label="Emoji: Funken">Sex with an estrogenized dick is its own experience, but it& #39;s MUCH MORE like sex with a vagina than sex with a man& #39;s dick!https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="✨" title="Funken" aria-label="Emoji: Funken">

Straight women *will not like it.*
Gay men *will not like it.*
Many straight men and lesbians *do!*
So when you tell lesbians who sleep with trans women that they& #39;re straight, or tell trans lesbians they& #39;re not really lesbians, you& #39;re just telling us that you& #39;re ignorant of trans bodies and want to control them anyway. In that moment, you& #39;re a crusty old conservative senator!
(Trans men on testosterone can have a similar experience with their junk changing form and function, but I& #39;m not going to talk about it here, because I straight up don& #39;t know enough about it!)
Don& #39;t have sex with anyone you don& #39;t want to! You don& #39;t ever have to give a reason why you don& #39;t want to have sex with someone.

Nobody& #39;s trying to "coerce you into sexual availability" or whatever.

(Side note: ostracizing cis lesbians who date trans women *is* sexual coercion!)
But if you go out of your way to tell everyone that you won& #39;t have sex with trans women,

and your reasoning is that you think trans women are men, and that sex with us is like sex with men,

don& #39;t be surprised when people call you out as an uninformed bigot!
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