Ha! Next thing you are going to tell me is that gay meet up apps like Grinder get overloaded at Republican events.

I don't give a damn what kind of porn people watch. I do care that this colors their perspective on how trans people actually live. Most of us aren't sex workers. And most of us that are don't do it by choice. We're just people trying to live our lives. This kind of thinking is incredibly dangerous, as it leads to believing that someone just being themselves in public is an act of sexual exhibitionism. I didn't transition as a sex thing. My life is not a costume. I transitioned and have lived my entire adult life as myself, worked my entire career and built my entire life around my transitioned name and gender. Rather than a 24/7 drag act, most days I'm wearing jeans and hoodie.

We're just trying to live our lives in peace. But a bunch of perverts are using their porn habits to inform their moral judgments about an entire class of people.

Who just searches on google for porn? wtf? That can't be a legitimate sample of the public, can it?

Interesting, but not sure the data proves the headline. The best they can say is that such searches originating from red states are a significant portion of all US searches.

Obsessed: no definition or evidence to support this.

Republicans: not a definitive connection, though plausible

Ironically, they’re treating trans women the same way they treat cis women—as sexual objects who don’t deserve bodily autonomy.

I am honestly not surprised.

I knew some people in the calvinist bible-belt regions in Holland (they're very strict, a bit similar to mormon, almost amish-like in terms of strictness except not having any aversion to technology). For example washing a car on sunday is absolutely out of the question and most people wear black those days. If you don't show up in church the whole village will hate you.

Anyway so the video rental shops in those regions were buzzing with the worst kinda porn. One of my friends managed video rental shop and he said the relative porn amount was 2-3x bigger than in the city areas.

This is for people for whom porn is highly illegal according to their religion. Somehow it causes some kind of attraction for them.

I'm very atheist and sex-positive and very much into kink, polyamory etc but it was never because of the 'forbidden' element for me. So I find it hard to understand that. But I've definitely seen it being a big thing yes.

Yeah, that's so unbelievably not fucking surprising. A weird amount of harassment I've gotten for being trans has been kinda (or occasionally extremely) sexual. Also the redder the area the more I get street harassment.

ETA: Oh upon reading the article, the city I'm thinking of (Lexington, KY, I basically couldn't take a walk without being catcalled there) is in the top 10 cities.

And yeah, anti trans bigotry is interesting because it seems to be an alliance of exterminationist bigotry ("x people should not exist or should be hidden and we should work towards that goal", examples of targeted groups include disabled people, Jewish people, and gay people) and supremacist bigotry ("x people are our lessers and must be forced into their place beneath us", anti black racism is the classic example). You have plenty of transphobes who just want us gone no matter what, but you also have quite a few who think our place is as discreet sex workers and are mad that we are insisting we deserve to live in society as equals and do whatever work we want. They were fine with us as prostitutes, but not as mechanics, as shameful side pieces but how dare we say we deserve to be spouses.

That perspective of us is deeply entwined in the insistence that anything pertaining to us is sexual. They look at us and reduce us solely to the lens of sex then condemn us for it. Then when some of us internalize that our only value as people is as sex objects they point and say "see look, we told you".

probably also gay porn too, since thier skinhead/nazi categories

They can't get off if it's mainstream, they need their fetishes to be taboo, and preferably illegal. So, they make it illegal, then rub themselves raw over it.

Its also like they all hate undocumented immigrants but only hire them for work.

Of course they are.

Everyday I find myself completely baffled by human behavior. There are days I legitimately do not think I'm the same species.

If I hate someone, I genuinely hate 1athem. Like Gary that I worked with in 2003. 20+ years later, and I STILL think he's one of the biggest 1assholes I ever met.

1At NO POINT do I want Gary porn. Maybe Gary death porn, but not sexual porn. I'd like to see him walk into a walk-in closet, when a bunch of spinning blades shoot out and cut him into tiny dice sized cubes.

But these people claim to hate trans folks, but then go home and beat their meat to them? Where's the hate then??? If you're going to hate someone, truely hate them because they stand for everything you dispise. Otherwise, you're just saying your own values mean nothing to you, and you shouldn't be taken seriously at face value.

And in this particular case, why even bother hating trans people at all? Just accept trans people for who they are, and bust all the nuts you want without being a hypocrite.

Aside from kids and animals, there aren't many kinks I'd look down on people for, as long as they're just true to themselves. I may not like the idea of licking feet, but if thats your thing, own up to it! Be yourself!

Also explains why all the porn of us calls us slurs. I hate it.

(Seriously, it's so hard finding trans porn that feels like it's for trans people instead of for people that want to dehumanize us)

It's just research!

The only exposure Republicans have to the outside world is through porn

Huh, and here I thought we didn't like any of the same things.

I ain't beatin' my meat to trans porn! I swear! I'm just... I'm just researching the enemy!

Everything going on with the femboy heatmap is incredible. All the red and blue areas of the southwest doing the handshake meme. The population cachment areas of fucking Scranton and Pueblo of all places going all in for some reason. The smooth cultural gradient in Cascadia.

It's also in the wrong article because femboys aren't trans, but it is funny to contrast it with the map for 'shemale' (eugh)

And this is also why violence often happens, as some of these men can't deal with their own attraction, and rather kill to hide it.

Is this the racism heatmap?