If a woman says her dating pool is female-only, she is understood as denying that transwomen are women. Even if she reframes her sexual orientation as a ‘preference’ and tries to argue that she gets to choose whom to sleep with according to whichever criteria work for her, this is still not good enough. ‘Your dating preferences are discriminatory,’ says Riley J. Dennis, the transwoman YouTuber. ‘Because these dating preferences are ultimately harmful to people who don’t fit into your box of what a conventionally attractive person looks like, it makes people feel isolated, alone, and unwanted
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