AITA - my trans female partner who I dearly love so much just told me that trans women are the MOST fetishized group of gender in the world. TW: R, SA, fetishization
As a [edit: SEA] woman myself who has gone through extreme fetishization, R and SA and who's worked as a SW, I thought that transwomen falls into the umbrella of "women" and said that women as a whole get extremely fetishized and that she's part of the women umbrella now. She got quite upset at me and said that its specifically trans women that are the most fetishized and she's seen it first hand.
Now context, I'm autistic ADHD and I wanted to explore this more, do research and find out more from her to understand her better. She got offended and felt I shut her down, and I was told to stop talking about it. So I stopped.
But I still did my research, looked at research articles, checked reddit. And I will not bring this up with her again but I wanted to know if y'all think I was the asshole for saying that women as a whole get fetishized and trans women are in that umbrella but idk if its correct to say one specific gender group gets fetishised more than another. I feel like each group gets fetishized differently and there's no need for comparison on who gets fetishized the most as it disqualifies the experiences of others.
AITA? I just want to understand her more but I'm not allowed to talk about it please help.