/lgbt/, please help me out. I'm female and I consider myself

>>8853069
Read this and swap the genders.
https://sillyolme.wordpress.com/faq-on-the-science/

>>8853074
Hey, thank you, awesome text! Obviously I didn't finish reading it, but:

"They exhibit an unusual sexual arousal pattern, a particular sexual orientation, usually called an Erotic Target Location Error in the scientific literature, in which they map their preferred sexual object, the opposite sex, onto their own bodies and actions, and thus find the thought of being or becoming the opposite sex to be arousing and emotionally rewarding"

I mean, it makes a lot of sense, but I don't feel any attraction towards men or male-like traits. Beard, excessive bodyhair, muscles and such turn me off. Even the way men smell is kind of off-puting. But the idea of having a dick is appealing to me.

Could I fit in this group of trans people?

>>8853069
Lots of people experience "cross gender arousal', and while its more prevelant in certain groups, it can be found in pretty much every group, be they cis or trans, gay or straight or bi, men or women. It doesn't necessarily mean anything more that you having a particular sexual interest. Additionally, from you descrive you could simply like be aroused by the idea of having a dick, which is actually a different phenomenon than being aroused by the idea of being a man during sex (human brains are more multifaceted than we give realize, while conventional morality may balk at the idea of a woman having a dick, our subconscious doesn't necessarily have those hangups. The prevalence of futa porn is evidence enough of this. )

Basically, unless you start feeling distress over being considered a woman in other parts of life (and I don't mean misogyny, because most women experience some distress related to that), feel like you should be a man, have distress over your body being female beyond a purely sexual context, or if your desire to be a man extends beyond sex, then you really don;t have anything to be concerned about. If those things do happen, or you start to desire or wish that you could transition to being a man, then you might want to consider doing more research and self-reflection. But if not, don't worry too much about it~

>>8853133
You could do. Keep in mind that they aren't just trans people and most people with that sexual arousal pattern don't transition or consider themselves trans and potentially don't feel dysphoric.

Being attracted to women and not men is odd and suggests it doesn't apply to you though. But it manifests in very varied ways and having just one part of your anatomy male in the fantasy is possible. There are other pages on that blog which talk about how in the trans woman version arousal may be specifically for only some body parts, such as female genitals. You could be a gender switch of that. The trans male version is perhaps even more likely to not be interested in the body of the other sex, judging from how many FtMs want to be feminine males along the lines of femboys.