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@hellomiakoda Taking your request to have this explained like you are 5 with an assumption that you are not actually a minor, here’s my understanding of the answer to your question about why people oppress trans people while simultaneously looking at porn of us:

Patriarchy, the idea that cis men are better than all other genders and should have all the power and money, oppresses everyone it touches. Cis men are taught to not see the inequalities, or they will be punished by others with a patriarchal worldview. But they are also taught to exert power over everyone else.

And thus they express that power through misogyny (unifying your points about how weird it is that chasers, the term for people who fetishize and objectify trans femmes, and straight men all hate the types of people they pursue sexually) and consent violations, including sexual harassment and assault.

Further, trans femmes represent a fundamental challenge to patriarchy’s gender-based value system, where men are best and that “best-ness” must be maintained. Trans femmes walk away from all that, and the patriarchy considers the rejection of its highest honor (“being a man”) to be a deep betrayal. So trans femmes get particularly vilified.

And since patriarchy prescribes misogyny and consent violations for those it disdains… it prescribes extra special large amounts of that for trans femmes.

And that’s (some of, in my understanding) why people both hate and fetishize trans femmes.