Talk:Transgender sexuality

False information

As a Brazilian, most informations on the topic about Trans-feminine third genders about travestis are false. SadFlowers (talk) 23:07, 27 October 2022 (UTC)

There were only two references supporting the whole section. The first[1] is just for the word sapatrans. I'm not sure if that source is reliable, it looks more like a blog, or like it's being republished. Maybe it's OK for a small claim like that. However, the rest of the paragraph makes some big claims, and its only source is a 1998 work by an anthropologist. The anthropologist is Don Kulick.

Maybe the source is OK for a snapshot in time where he was, but the paragraph isn't really adding much to the article, and might be perpetuating some outdated information. Also, most of the paragraph was about gender identity, not sexuality. So I deleted it all. Sativa Inflorescence (talk) 05:59, 27 January 2023 (UTC)

An eye toward a rewrite

I'd like to more-or-less rewrite this article. Goals I have in mind are:

• Eliminate, or minimize as much as possible, reliance on primary sources. Currently a lot of this is studies without any secondary analysis.
• Pare down some content that strays beyond the topic of sexuality.
• Probably split § Naming the body into its own article, as it's not just about sexuality.
• Add more from reliable sources about the sociology of transgender sexuality. In particular, Lucie Fielding's Trans Sex and Laura Erickson-Schroth's Trans Bodies, Trans Selves are promising for this, but there's really a wealth of sources overall.
  • Add more on the subjective experience of trans people on HRT, as reported and analyzed in reliable scholarly secondary sources.
• Add more on the history of transgender sexuality in popular culture. I added a paragraph recently on Fucking Trans Women, but that's the start of non-pornographic works on trans sexuality, not the end.
• On that note, this is an article on transgender sexuality and yet, until I added that paragraph and its mention of muffing, this contained zero mentions of how trans people have sex. Nothing about anal sex about transfems. Nothing about anal sex among transmascs. Nothing about strapon use among transmascs. Nothing about strapon use among transfems. All of these are topics with substantial scholarly coverage. Let's fix that gap.
• Also nothing about fertility and pregnancy. Should fix that too.
• Also holy shit two fucking sentences on the effects of sex reassignment surgery, only half a sentence of which is about sexuality, and which is sourced to a fucking style magazine. One could probably write an entire article on transgender sexuality vis-à-vis neovaginas and neophalluses, let alone the results of other surgeries. Let's start with at least a few paragraphs.
• Add content about nonbinary people and, as appropriate, distinguish between trans women / trans men and the broader group of transfeminine / transmasculine people.
  • Reach goal: The sexuality of nonbinary people after nonbinary-affirming bottom surgeries (nullification, penis-preserving vaginoplasty, etc.). If there's RS coverage of that, which I'm not sure there is.

Would anyone like to work together on this? -- Tamzin^{[cetacean needed]} (she|they|xe) 04:07, 29 December 2022 (UTC)

Do good secondary sources for demographic info regarding the sexuality of transgender people even exist? In the absence of them, IMO it's not really the worst thing in the world to keep in material like e.g. "the 2015 U.S. Transgender Survey found that x% of transgender respondents self-identified as straight". The commentary surrounding sexual fluidity/changing sexual orientation in Transgender sexuality#Sexual orientation and transitioning should I think focus a lot less on individual studies though.

I agree with you about removing some content not really about sexuality (on a quick skim through, I noticed that being an issue in the "Trans-feminine third genders" section and the first paragraph of "Cultural status"), and also agree about the addition of some more relevant content, particularly regarding sex after sex reassignment surgery. I think I'm too lazy to help you out here though; just offering my unsolicited opinion. Endwise (talk) 04:28, 29 December 2022 (UTC)

I'm more concerned about primary sources on the medical side (including psychosocial). Demographic information may be a case where primary sources are a necessary evil; I'd have to look further to know for sure. -- Tamzin^{[cetacean needed]} (she|they|xe) 04:32, 29 December 2022 (UTC)

A very worthy goal, and you raised a lot of good points. Normally, I'd say "yes" to the collaboration invite, but I feel like there's way too much on my plate right now. I guess what I could offer for the moment, is some niche help (if you need it) if you have specific questions dealing with sources in some western European languages, which would also be a good idea anyway to help globalize the article. Possible starter set:

France sources: Bing · Cairn · DuckDuckGo · E. Universalis · Gallica · Google · (books · scholar) · Persée · Qwant

Also, good job at the FTW article, and good luck with this one, I'll be lurking and cheering you on! Mathglot (talk) 22:07, 29 December 2022 (UTC)

@Mathglot: Thanks, and glad you liked the FTW article. I've put up an outline at Draft:Transgender sexuality and will get started on that sometime soon (probably). Feel free to chip in if you're able (likewise anyone else!). -- Tamzin^{[cetacean needed]} (she|they|xe) 05:52, 30 December 2022 (UTC)

Extremely parcial and irresponsible article

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It lacks a "Controversies" section. It doesn't mention a current moviment of scientists, intellectuals, female athletes and young victims of irreversible "trans surgeries" and "hormone therapy" denouncing the pseudo science backed by radical leftists and greedy clinics in order to maintain such a lunatic agenda. Paolo E F Maurício (talk) 03:10, 11 April 2023 (UTC) These kinds of evidence-free transphobic comments are not appropriate here. Please desist. — OwenBlacker (he/him; Talk; please {{ping}} me in replies) 08:11, 11 April 2023 (UTC)

"Naming the body"

I'm really curious as to the utility of describing what transgender people refer to their anus and genitals as. Like? Who is this serving? As a transgender person, I would be mortified that any cis person reads this article with the takeaway that this is what I call my bodyparts. Borderline1 (talk) 14:02, 5 October 2023 (UTC)

Usage of terms "male genitalia" and "female genitalia"

I think these terms can be confusing and inaccurate on a page about transgender people, and that they're being used as euphemisms for the more correct and clear terms "penis" and "vagina". The more direct terms are already used several times in this page, but when I tried to make this edit it was blocked by a filter. I was told to come here for consensus. Esper89 (talk) 07:49, 28 November 2023 (UTC)

I am inclined to agree, though it should be substituted cautiously, since "external male genitalia" for example is not the same thing as penis. -- Maddy from Celeste (WAVEDASH) 18:39, 28 November 2023 (UTC)