Transgender sexuality

Transgender sexuality is the sexuality of transgender people. Like all other genders, transgender people exhibit the full range of possible sexual orientations and interests, including the potential for a lack of sexual attraction.

Historically, clinicians labeled transsexual people as heterosexual or homosexual relative to their sex assigned at birth. Most transsexual people find this offensive, and prefer to define their sexual orientation relative to their gender identity.

To avoid confusion and offense, the terms "gynephilia" and "androphilia" are sometimes used to describe attraction to women and men, respectively.

One study published in 1977 suggests that transgender people have more heterosexual than homosexual experiences. Another study published in 1976 found an almost equal distribution of transsexuals between three distinct categories: homosexual, asexual, and heterosexual. However, this study only assessed 42 male-to-female transsexual people who had undergone gender reassignment surgery and does not address bisexuality. Furthermore, these categories have been rejected by many transsexual people as pejorative.

Research, such as that done by Walter Bockting at the University of Minnesota, suggests that the breakdown of sexualities among transsexual women is 38% bisexual, 35% attracted to women, and 27% attracted to men. Older research had suggested that the majority of transsexual women seeking sex reassignment were attracted to men. About half of trans women studied have sexual intercourse with women.

R. Green compares two-spirit people, hijra, mukhannathun, and kathoey, all of which are people assigned male at birth who have adopted a more feminine gender role. They have in common early effeminacy, adulthood femininity, and attraction to masculine males. Green argues that the members of these groups are mentally indistinguishable from modern western transsexual women.

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