-Just—_other than_ this mysterious sexualized _desire_ to be female, the biological _and_ psychological traits of the group in question seem to be in the _male_ normal range. Notice how your survey had almost eight times as many lesbian trans women than straight trans women? That's _not_ what the distribution of sexual orientation looks like among cis women. But if we consider that trans women are _male_, and males tend to be attracted to females, the data looks _less confusing_. Or did you know that [the ratio of trans to cis women among Haskell programmers is close to 1:1](http://unremediatedgender.space/2020/Nov/survey-data-on-cis-and-trans-women-among-haskell-programmers/)? That's _way_ off from the ratio in the general population. The data looks _less confusing_ if you think of it as "at least 1.5% of male Haskell programmers wish they were female" rather than "Haskell programmers with female gender identities are equally likely to be trans or cis".
+I can conceive of being wrong about this, but I don't think the _SSC_ survey data is a powerful enough instrument to make that call—I'd want in-depth interviews and preferably the kind of physical arousal measurements that Michael Bailey's lab does.
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+You _start_ to get into these issues with the "My literal body is arousing" account in the post, but I expect more digging to reveal a different picture. Of course, I can't know with any confidence (without more interviewing) what's really going on in [TODO: unredact name1]'s head specifically. But to match one anecdote with another: when I _first_ came out to [TODO: name2] in 2016, her _first_ reaction was, "I can relate to this; I'm turned on by the idea of being a hot girl", but then when I went into a little _more detail_ (linking to the ["Man, I Feel Like a Woman"](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ManIFeelLikeAWoman) TVTropes page), she revised to, "Wait, no, I can't relate this at all; like, you _want_ to have breasts?" (I regret that this is paraphrased from memory; I haven't been able to find the transcript because I think Sarah deleted her Facebook account a couple times.)
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+Just on my prior beliefs about sexually-dimorphic animals, I just have _so much_ trouble _actually_ believing that [name1]'s experience of her body is more relevantly similar to mine than [name2]'s, _even if_ [name1] ends up sometimes using similar English words as me (_e.g._, "it's hot that I have breasts").
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+In a world where it was _actually true_ where "if you identify as a gender, and you're attracted to that gender [...]" reflected what was actually going on in the world, I would expect the things trans lesbians say to each other in naturalistic contexts when the general public isn't looking, to look like the things cis lesbians say to each other in naturalistic contexts.
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+Here's [an example from Twitter](https://web.archive.org/web/20210903211904/https://twitter.com/lae_laeta/status/1433880523160567808)—
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+> The eternal trans lesbian question: So do I want to be her, or do I want to be with her?
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+> The answer: Yes
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+I see this "want her or want to be her" sentiment from trans women _and_ non-transitioned AGP men very frequently.
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+_The poster herself seems to implicitly acknowledge this_, by calling it a "trans lesbian question" rather than merely a "lesbian" question!!
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+I think the boring hypothesis here is "Yes, of course, because trans women are AGP men, which are not the same thing as actual lesbians."
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