Transgender pornography
pornography genre featuring transgender performers
Transgender pornography is a genre of pornography featuring transsexual or transgender actors. The majority of the genre features trans women, and trans men are sometimes featured. Trans women are most often featured with male partners, but they are also featured with other women, both transgender and cisgender.
Terminology
In the 2010s, it was common in transgender pornography to use terms that are generally regarded as pejorative slurs in the trans community, such as "chicks with dicks", "trannies", or "shemales". Transgender pornographic actress Wendy Williams said she disagreed with activists who thought these sorts of terms are slurs, as these words were originally "used so the laymen person could understand the products they were buying in porn". In 2017, a major trans porn site changed its name from ShemaleYum to GroobyGirls and announced it would no longer use terms that are seen as stigmatizing.
Trans women in pornography are sometimes called "tgirls", the t standing for transgender or transsexual.
Awards
AVN Award for Transgender Performer of the Year is one of the major industry awards for actors in the genre. Transgender Erotica Awards (formerly Tranny Awards) is the other major award. The Feminist Porn Awards has also awarded trans and genderqueer performers for expanding the boundaries of the genre, with early awards going to Jiz Lee and Drew Deveaux.
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