Last updated 08/20/2025
This is mostly regarding trans people being sexualized for the purposes of cisgender sexual gratification, rather than to depict them as objects of contempt.
Blanket warning for transantagonism, sexual harassment, and genital talk. Some links may also use slurs (reclaimed and otherwise), as well as discuss sexual abuse and assault, hate crimes, and other anti-LGBTQ+ violence.
1. general
"Being Talked to Like I Was a Sex Toy, Like Being Transgender Was Simply for the Enjoyment of Someone Else": Fetishization and Sexualization of Transgender and Nonbinary Individuals by Annalisa Anzani, Louis Lindley, Giacomo Tognasso, M. Paz Galupo, and Antonio Prunas | Spring Link (March 2021, this is a study examining trans people's reactions to being fetishized; most of the quotes are from white people, which is acknowledged; mentions intimate partner violence)
ALTERSEX: Sex/Gender Slurs And The Alternatives by farorenightclaw | FurAffinity (December 2019, discusses both trans and intersex fetishization)
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Putting it in perspective: Is it wrong to fetishize trans people? by Adrian Silbernagel | Queer Kentucky (August 2019, mentions sexual racism)
Is my partner fetishizing me? by nat | Medium (February 2016)
what is it about me that makes you think i'd want to do either of those things? | splendidland (April 2017)
if you call a trans character a 'tr*p' or an 'futa' | Tumblr thread started by spitblaze (November 2018)
"You wouldn't care" | SwankIvy (October 2016, warns for "suicide, transphobia, trans fetishization, sexual harassment, sexual entitlement, gaslighting, swearing, [vomit mention], oral sex mention")
2. Transgender women
Trans Women and Femmes Speak Out About Being Fetishized by Eva Reign | Them (July 2018)
I'm a porn star asking the industry to stop using the term 'sh*male' by Chelsea Poe | Cashmere Magazine (December 2014)
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The guy I'm dating is really into trans women. Is it love – or a fetish? by Kai Cheng Thom | Xtra* (June 2019, mentions sexual racism and stereotypes of trans women as predators)
Beware the Chasers: “Admirers” Who Harass Trans People by Christin Scarlett Milloy | Slate (October 2014)
The Tedium of Trans Sex Work by Sarah | Tits And Sass (March 2016, discusses hostility towards sex work)
Sexualized desexualization is trans women being un-datable and un-fuckable, yet trans women are a mainstream porn genre. | Tumblr thread started by femgineer (reblog from July 2015)
[video] Can Straight Men Be Attracted To Trans Women? | Mia Mulder (February 2020)
Available on YouTube (which is free) and Nebula (which requires a suscription)
I'm a cis guy looking to date a trans woman. How do I start? by Kai Cheng Thom | Xtra* (June 2020)
No, trans sex dolls are not empowering by Alex V Green | Xtra* (January 2020, discusses discrimination against sex workers)
I Am The Transsexual Your Boyfriend Wants to Be With: On Thought Catalog's Transphobia Problem | TransAdvocate (discusses a cis woman dehumanizing trans women and treating them as unworthy of desire)
Deeply transphobic ad in 'Cyberpunk 2077' represents everything wrong with cyberpunk by Ana Valens | Daily Dot (June 2019)
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Chalice Can't Contain Our Hope: How Alters' Marketing Alienates by Alexis Sergio | Women Write About Comics (January 2017)
'Transfixed' says it's a 'breakthrough' series, but it still fetishizes trans bodies by Ana Valens | Cashmere Magazine (May 2019)
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....the problem here is not that some relatively mundane thing is being framed as freakishly perverted | David J. Prokopetz (June 2024)
3. Transgender men
"No cis guys" – no thank you | a gentleman and a scholar (November 2011)
Why fetishizing trans men is offensive | Diary of a Lipstick Terrorist (August 2012, mentions sexualization and fetishization of POC)