partners may be with a transgender person throughout their gender journey (exploration and/or transition), or they may enter the transgender person’s life later on. for example, an ftm who was once part of the lesbian community as a butch may have strong social ties to the lesbian community and have a partner who identifies as a lesbian.

the female partner may maintain a lesbian identity, while the ftm partner may now identify as straight or bisexual. post-transition, the mtf may …

the dating scene for transgender women offers a unique set of challenges that cisgender — someone whose gender identity matches their biological sex — women don’t have to deal with. if you treat the date like a dictionary, we’re probably already shuffling in our purse for our car keys and telling you we have to run to the bathroom. as a result, researchers say that trans women are the highest demographic to turn to the sex trade to find meaningful …