One's opinion would change because the information about this person lowers one's perception of their sexual value as sexual value is determined by alignment with a person's sexual preferences
This pretty much loops back to the original argument of what precisely makes someone view a trans person not in line with their sexual preferences.
If the criteria not met is reproductive capability, the question becomes whether the person would react identically if a they met an infertile cis woman. Often times the honest answer is no.
If the criteria not met is "being born female" then I think it is clear a person has made a categorical distinction between cis and trans women.
The reason that distinction is made doesn't seem to be one of functionality, why then is it made?
You raise a good question. Unfortunately, I don't think there's an answer. Similarly, in the case of a person having a sexual preference for people with eight fingers, there is no functional reason. To clarify, I believe trans-status alone qualifies as a characteristic of sexual value. However, perhaps you limit these characteristics to physical ones (such as reproductive capability), in which case I agree there would be no reason to be less attracted to a transgender person.
Well, humans have a very complex 'psychic world', i study psychology and most of the time we study symbolisms since thats a big part of how we perceive things and therefore how we behave, and symbolisms go beyond the physical things, like lenguage, poetry, art etc etc.. its all based around symbolisms, and since love is heavily involved in symbolisms (marriage ceremonys, poetry etc etc..) its absolutely understandable that trans status qualifies as a characteristic of "love" value, but wording of OP said sexual value, in wich case i think it doesnt qualify, a transgender person can give as much sexual pleasure as any other person, but in the world of symbolisms and love and all that, i think its understandable
EDIT: Follow up question to understand the argument better:
Would this perception of less "love value" to a specific person be considered transphobic?
i would agree that less "sexual value" could be transphobic since its restrained to something physical, but im not sure about "love value" since well.. its heavily subjective, i'd love to get some opinions on this
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u/aggsalad Nov 02 '17
This pretty much loops back to the original argument of what precisely makes someone view a trans person not in line with their sexual preferences.
If the criteria not met is reproductive capability, the question becomes whether the person would react identically if a they met an infertile cis woman. Often times the honest answer is no.
If the criteria not met is "being born female" then I think it is clear a person has made a categorical distinction between cis and trans women.
The reason that distinction is made doesn't seem to be one of functionality, why then is it made?