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New<\/a><\/span> \u00bb Transgender Romance<\/a><\/span> \u00bb New and Improved MTF Transgender Romance<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n\n\n
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A young trans couple in love with roses<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Why do the bestselling male-to-female (MTF) transgender romance books seem to be the only romance genre that has little or nothing to do with actual romance? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cRomance\u201d being two people meeting, liking each other, falling in love and eventually going off to live happily ever after, after first having some huge problem to overcome, of course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We wondered about the lack of romance as well.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

After all, isn\u2019t this the way romance novels are supposed to work? Yet the romance in bestselling MTF fiction categories doesn\u2019t seem to work this way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you look at the top selling books in the Amazon Kindle transgender romance genre<\/a>, very few the stories there have anything to with a traditional romance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Looking at the story descriptions of the books in this genre, the first thing you notice is the trans character in the books doesn\u2019t seem very happy about being trans. Being trans here is not an “and” to their life, it seems to be their whole existence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The main reason people transition in these books \u2013 or present female if you will \u2013 is due to the trans character being forced, blackmailed, reluctant, overpowered, or they woke up in a female body one morning with no explanation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The last example, the \u201cbody swap\u201d genre, is highly popular. Sometimes men are transitioned into wolves or other animals, and some men even become trans because of aliens (!) (And how come that phenomenon is never addressed on the show Ancient Aliens?)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Worse still, some books in the Amazon Transgender Romance bestseller category have nothing to do with trans at all, but are pure \u201cman on man\u201d (M\/M) sex. Not that there\u2019s anything wrong with that, to quote Jerry Seinfield.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m not complaining \u2013 hey, to each their own \u2013 but is anyone writing transgender books that actually have true romance in them?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No forced, reluctant, blackmailed, or their body swapped out? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

How about a trans character who loves being trans?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Well good news! There are books like that. And this is exactly why the Matriarchy Press was founded: to showcase actual, real-life romances with trans characters who like being trans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yes, I understand that a lot of people have shame issues when dealing with their transgender selves, and they need<\/em> to feel forced or reluctant or blackmailed as a way to cope with these feelings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Perhaps being forced or dominated or humiliated takes away the responsibility for needing to be trans. Maybe, hopefully, some day in the not-to-distant future being trans will be accepted and normal, and we can be rid of these shame issues once and for all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if the trans community first can\u2019t be healthy about trans, how will the non-trans community hope to understand us?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The good news is there is a lot of great new research<\/a> now that gives us a lot more of reasons people are trans, and maybe now trans can be dealt with in a much healthier way. We know so much more now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gay people came out of the closet pretty rapidly starting in the 1970s, and even still, fifty years on, being gay is still a problem in some parts of society, but the gay community has made a lot more progress being \u201cout\u201d than the trans community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Part of their success was losing the shame. They replaced \u201cshame\u201d with \u201cpride\u201d and it worked. It\u2019s time for the trans community to catch up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But how does the trans community \u201ccatch up?\u201d <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

One way to start is by showing loving relationships \u2013 romances \u2013 involving trans and the people who love them. This would be a great way to start. This would be healthy for trans and non-trans people alike.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After all, everyone can relate to romance, but not everyone can relate to being dominated, forced, blackmailed, sissified, humiliated, or having their body swapped with an alien.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But that\u2019s okay, if you still need that, there\u2019s room for everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you like, check out the Love Wore a Tux<\/a> series from MatriarchyPress.com . It\u2019s all about a trans romance between two loving and healthy people. Two people, one of whom happens to be trans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And, if you like the series, please Tweet, Facebook, or whatever about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The sooner we start bringing true romance to trans fiction, the more trans will be understood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That’s the plan. Thoughts?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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