title: "There's no chasing involved": cis/trans relationships, "tranny chasers," and the future of a sex-positive trans politics.
abstract: This article adds to a small, but growing, body of work on trans sexualities and partnerships, and provides a much-needed inquiry into the complex and contested politics of desire when we take trans identities, bodies, and sexualities into account. Using digital ethnographic data from YouTube videos along with in-person observational data from LGBTQ and trans conferences in the U.S., Tompkins argues that a sex-positive trans politics cannot emerge in trans and trans-allied communities if the rhetoric of the "tranny chaser" continues to inform discourses of desire and attraction to trans people.
authors.affiliation: a Sociology and Women's Studies , Transylvania University , Lexington , Kentucky , USA.
authors.forename: Avery Brooks
authors.initials: AB
authors.lastname: Tompkins
mesh_terms: D000884:Anthropology, Cultural; D005260:Female; D005783:Gender Identity; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D011057:Politics; D012725:Sexual Behavior / Q000523:psychology; D019529:Sexuality / Q000523:psychology; D061108:Social Media; D063106:Transgender Persons / Q000523:psychology*