Trans chaser or tranny chaser,[1][2] often shortened to chaser,[3] is a term predominantly used to describe cisgender men who are primarily sexually interested in trans women,[3] but it is sometimes used to refer to those interested in trans men as well.
[1][3][4] Transgender people often use the term in a pejorative sense, because they consider chasers to value them for their trans status alone, rather than being attracted to them as a person.
[1][5] However, some claim this term in an affirming manner.
[6] Sociologist Avery Tompkins of Transylvania University in Kentucky argued in an article in the Journal of Homosexuality that sex-positive trans politics cannot emerge if terms such as tranny chaser inform discussion of attraction to transgender people.
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