The Radical Potential Of Trans Kink Porn

We need more films that contain honest depictions of the various forms that trans women’s sexuality can take.

This may come as a surprise to people who are used to seeing sanitized images of us in the media, but trans women are sexual beings too. Sure, we may grapple with dysphoria that affects how we relate to our bodies physically, but by and large we still like to get off. And when we can’t find a partner (or partners!) to have sex with, we do what practically everyone else does — we turn to pornography.

The only problem? Porn— which caters predominantly to the desires of straight cisgender men — usually isn’t made with trans women in mind. As such, we often struggle to find porn that appeals to us; I’ve lost track of the number of times I’ve gotten frustrated and given up while searching for something — anything — that I can relate to.

Even as trans women gain representation in pornography, in mainstream porn this is usually the result of the fetishization of trans women’s bodies by cisgender men who want to experience “chicks with dicks.” These films usually involve a trans woman topping a cis man, which means that the trans women portrayed must be able to get hard enough to penetrate — which many trans women either cannot do or do not do because…