My (24 ftm) best friend just broke up with his (now ex) girlfriend (27 mtf).
During 4 years, they were actually the happiest couple I've met. He even supported her in the very first stages of her transition, because she was just starting when they first met. However, a few months ago,
she started to complain about my friend's prosthetic not feeling enough like a real penis, so she suggested to turn the relationship into a polygamy until my friend could get his phallo surgery, because, in her words, “having sex with a prosthetic doesn't make me feel like a real woman.”
Of course this hurt my friend, but h
e still accepted, hoping that it would be temporary and that he would be able to get phallo by next year.
Well… Long story short:
just two weeks ago, she met another trans girl with whom she felt pretty understood. She was very happy that she found her “transition twin”. The thing is, that she quickly started to develop a sexual atraction for this girl… So bad, that they ended up having sex within just those two weeks of knowing each other. And the next day, she met with my friend just to break him up…
The reason? “
I've found out that I can't enjoy sex if it's not with a biological penis, and you will never have one. And I really don't think that a phallo penis will feel any different from a fancy prosthetic, so it really hurts me to tell you we may be better off as just friends.”
Her words still make me feel so fucked up. It's not only her basically saying that trans men “will never be real men” (even being a trans woman herself!), but
it's also that she actually prefers to fuck with another trans WOMAN just because she's ok using her biological penis… Like, wtf? I have nothing against bisexual or pansexual people (I'm a bisexual myself),
but she's saying that she's into this other trans woman literally just because she has a penis! If that's the case, I wonder if she actually sees her like a woman at all? In fact, I wonder if she ever saw me like a man at all? Because, I mean,
to me it's very clear that she's not actually seeing my friend as a man just because he was born with THE SAME CONDITION she suffers from… It's like
she percieved her new trans woman “friend” more like a man than my friend who is ACTUALLY a man, just because she was born with a penis and he was not. I heard her several times complaining about how society reduces her to a man just because she has a penis she didn't ask for, but ain't that the same bs she is doing?
Ngl,
the thing that hurts me the most is that I really considered her a very good friend of mine. I used to think she was one of the very few people with whom I could openly speak about my experiences with this condition. It really pisses me off because it reminds me of how sometimes we can't feel safe even around the people who are supposed to understand us…