Hi, just stopped by...
I think everyone has their own sexual identity. I know for a long time I though I was gay, but I always wanted to be a girl, and "the" girl.
As a professional I've found that the vast majority of the men I date consider themselves "straight." Maybe 10% acknowledge themselves as "bi" and about 2% identify as "gay."
To me just because a man enjoys the company or experience of being with a TS doesn't automatically make him gay or bi, unless HE feels he is. This is because straight men see TS's for the most part as women, not as femme gay boys with boobies. So they are relating to us as women - which is the wany most of us like it.
I think gay men tend to want guys who identify as men, even if they are super femme. One of the cutest "girls" I've ever met is a gay guy I used to buy my cosmetics from. Beautiful skin, I thought he was trans and invited him to a workshop one time and he was like, "Nooo-way, I'm gay."
My partner Jessica, who's so passable she fools TS's, doesn't really even consider herself a TS. She identifies as being a girl with a birth defect, nothing more.
And to me anymore sexuality and gender is just a totally fluid thing and I'm trying not to catagorise myself as much. If anything I'm a straight, bi-sexual lesbian...
I like men as a straight girl, I like women too, and I'm in a same sex relationship with another trans woman, so I guess that makes us lesbians.
And why does it even matter?
Giggle,
TS Jamie