A great description of chaser culture, chasers, and why trans people are creeped out by them. It can be hard for cis people to understand. I’m cis, but as a cis woman who has had a couple of lesbian relationships with trans women, I’ve had my own odd run inns with chasers. Some even on medium. I’ve always been interested in publications that talk about how to be a good partner to trans woman. I wanted to learn things like: how to stick up for my partner when someone misgenders her, how to deal with transphobia in my own my family when I introduce her to them, what gender dysphoria feels like so I can be there for her and empathize with what she’s going through. I admit, I grew up in a transphobic society and I read a lot about trans issues to make sense of gender and discard the toxic binary I grew up in. It’s been confusing learning to let go of the toxic binary messages I was fed my whole life and reading about trans issues helps. At one point I followed a publication that used its own term for being attracted to trans people (sexual attraction to trans people isn’t its own damn orientation, I am attracted to women period) and went on about some creepy things. Then I realized I was following a group for chasers. They said some weird things. It was confusing AF. I’m still like WTF. I don’t know.