A discussion over at CDL looks at whether a growing body of “transgender romance” fiction reflects a larger androphilic or bi/polysexual current among transfeminine crossdreamers and trans women.
Terrie Nova writes that they have long assumed most TG fiction was written from a gynephilic/attraction to women perspective: male characters might appear as sexual fantasy figures, but rarely as fully developed romantic objects.
After reading Kindle/Amazon transgender transformation romances, however, they were surprised to find many stories centered on a transfeminine protagonist’s emotional and sexual attraction to a cis man, with detailed attention to his personality, body and desirability. The books do indeed use the tropes of traditional romance novels.
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