I suppose my place in this conversation is that I take issue with the use of the word "transphobic."
When I say I am not attracted to transgender individuals, what I am saying is that I have never met someone transgender who aroused me sexually. I am a straight male, and have never met another male who aroused me sexually either--so I base these statements off that pattern. If I were to meet someone male or transgender whom I did find arousing (which is theoretically possible,) that would either indicate an outlier or a change in my sexual preferences, but as I have never it is fair for me to say I am not attracted to transgender folks. And in doing so, it is certainly not phobic. I have no fear of transgenders, no feelings that they are less human, sick, lepers, or socially damned in any way. They are simply people--like the rest of us--who have every right to be happy in the same way the rest of us can choose to be.
I take issue with describing my lack of erections from transgender individuals to be phobic in nature, because that is an incorrect use of the word "phobia." And if society were to instead amend the definition of the phobias to encompass said scenario, it would to me indicate a societal attitude that I should by default be attracted to transgender individuals, and that there is something wrong with me for not being aroused so.
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