What's so wrong with being bisexual?
I agree with Shade. When a man sucks a penis, no matter how you want to frame it, it is homosexual contact. Does that make you Gay? Well, no it does not. Does it make you bisexual? Yes, it does and there's nothing at all wrong with being bisexual. It's really cool that guys like Ecstatic can admit that they are bisexual and get on with life.
Second, another conundrum. A lot of us transwomen have come-out and up thru the gay community and see ourselves as part of the lbgt umbrella. So if you have sex with one of us and we claim to be gay in that sense then are we having gay sex, but you are having straight sex all in the same act? :)
Finally, it's cool that this thread doesn't have personal attacks and is just opinions. But I've noticed that when guys get pissed at girls on here the first thing they do is call them 'dude' or 'man,' etc. What gives there? If a transwoman is towing the 'party line' she's a woman. If she disagrees she's a man? Think about it....
Re: What's so wrong with being bisexual?
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Originally Posted by eclipse2000b
I agree with Shade. When a man sucks a penis, no matter how you want to frame it, it is homosexual contact. Does that make you Gay? Well, no it does not. Does it make you bisexual? Yes, it does and there's nothing at all wrong with being bisexual. It's really cool that guys like Ecstatic can admit that they are bisexual and get on with life.
Hey, thanks, eclipse! Happy New Year to you! Coming out as bisexual is really the most natural thing in the world to me; it's been a part of who I am for nearly as long as I can remember and something I've never hid from those for whom it's relevant.
Nice distinction between the sexual act itself being homosexual but not necessarily gay: this gets back to the difference between sexual orientation and gender identification. In the purest XY chromosomal sense of male/female body parts and sexuality, yes, by definition a man sucking a penis is involved in a homosexual [same sex] act. So what? In terms of gender, if the penis is attached to a transwoman who is fully gender identified as a woman, then it's not gay; if the penis is attached to a man who gender identifies as male--regardless of how gay he may be--it is gay. The only biological exception to this is sex with an intersexed person (someone with a different chromosomal makeup, such as XXY): the bipolar sexual dyad no longer applies in such a case (though gender identification does). The transwomen I have been with are not gay men (though as you say they may have begun their transition as gay men: in point of fact, a few of those I've known did, while others identified as girls from childhood and really never went through a gay phase). I say this with surety based on the number of gay men (of a wide range of types) that I have known over 30 years: regardless of their differences, they were all men.
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Originally Posted by eclipse2000b
Second, another conundrum. A lot of us transwomen have come-out and up thru the gay community and see ourselves as part of the lbgt umbrella. So if you have sex with one of us and we claim to be gay in that sense then are we having gay sex, but you are having straight sex all in the same act? :)
Two points of view, one act: for one, it may be gay and for the other straight. Are you looking at it from a third point of view, as an outside observer? Two people make love. The guy thinks it's the hottest sex he's ever had, but the woman thinks, ho-hum, I'd rather be shopping, this guy is soooo boring. Can both be right? Each for him/herself, yes. An outside observer might notice the disconnection between the two partners, but still, it was hot for one and at best tepid for the other. Likewise, in his mind, the guy in your scenario thinks he's having straight sex (he's top, he doesn't suck her dick, he is enjoying her purely as a woman) but the transwoman (who wants her srs but hasn't transitioned fully yet) still thinks of the act as homosexual and will do so until she has srs. Both are correct from their own perspectives, and the outside observer will impose his/her own interpretation.
Consider this variation on your scenario: it's completely dark, and the TS has managed to hide her penis from the guy so that he doesn't know she's not a natural woman. She offers her ass to him, and he takes it, but he never notices her male parts. Is it still homosexual sex? (I've never experienced this, but I've read many descriptions of just such a "trick" played on a guy by a TS who doesn't want him to know--many girls in fact have boasted of fooling guys this way.) Or consider that she has had her srs, and then has sex with a guy. Is it homosexual then? Well, most of us would say not, because she now has a vagina rather than a penis. But she still has the XY chromosome balance, still needs hormonal therapy, still is prone to male biological tendency (male pattern baldness, etc.--mitigated by the hormones, yes, but nonetheless still present). So you could argue that it's still homosexual.
My point? What difference does it make?
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Originally Posted by eclipse2000b
Finally, it's cool that this thread doesn't have personal attacks and is just opinions. But I've noticed that when guys get pissed at girls on here the first thing they do is call them 'dude' or 'man,' etc. What gives there? If a transwoman is towing the 'party line' she's a woman. If she disagrees she's a man? Think about it....
Good point, eclipse.