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The Trans Chaser is a cisgender character who has a strong sexual interest in transgender or gender-nonconforming people; however, their attraction has no romantic element, and is often little more than a sexual fetish. The most common portrayal is of an (ostensibly) straight cisgender male who surreptitiously hooks up with transgender women or cross-dressers. If PlayedForLaughs, it usually involves a subversion of an UnsettlingGenderReveal, where he reacts a little ''too'' positively upon learning that the women he's with is transgender. More serious works may insinuate that the Trans Chaser is a ClosetGay, and that having sex with someone who resembles a cisgender woman is the best way he can rationalize his attraction without having to question his heterosexuality.

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* Webcomic/ThinkingTooMuchToThinkPositively: In "Mystery Men", Xan describes the phenomenon of her and other trans women being followed by creepy men on Twitter whose likes are full of trans pornography. She discusses the possibility that these men consider being trans a fetish, and they hope that the women they follow will admit they have a fetish and start posting trans porn themselves.
* Webcomic/TransGirlNextDoor: Discussed. One comic describes some guys trans women meet during online dating, including a guy who only sees trans women as a fetish for "discreet hookups" and a guy who wants to "experiment" despite having "experimented" several times before.

* WebVideo/ConMan: Sean Maher's character mistakenly believes that Wray's convention booker Bobbie (a cis woman) is male, then interprets Wray's garbled explanation to mean that she is transgender. He immediately finds her "courageousness" attractive to the point of fetishizing her and desiring sex with "the real you." It doesn't help that Bobbie plays along.

* ''Film/{{Tangerine}}'': Razmik is exclusively attracted to transgender women, to the point where he insists a cisgender prostitute he has hired leave and berates her for working his usual block.

'''Laconic:''' A cis character has a fetish for transgender or gender-nonconforming people.

('''Indices:''' SexTropes, TropesAboutPerverts, AttractionToOutliers, GenderAndSexualityTropes, QueerAsTropes, TransgenderTropes, NoRealLife.TropesTToZ)
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The Trans Chaser is a cisgender character who has a strong sexual interest in transgender or gender-nonconforming people; however, their attraction has no romantic element, and is often little more than a sexual fetish. The most common portrayal is of an (ostensibly) straight cisgender male who surreptitiously hooks up with transgender women or cross-dressers. If PlayedForLaughs, it usually involves a subversion of an UnsettlingGenderReveal, where he reacts a little ''too'' positively upon learning that the women he's with is transgender. More serious works may insinuate that the Trans Chaser is a ClosetGay, and that having sex with someone with someone who resembles a cisgender woman is the best way he can rationalize his attraction without having to question his heterosexuality.

Compare EverybodyWantsTheHermaphrodite, BigotWithACrush, ArmoredClosetGay, and SexIsEvilAndIAmHorny. May overlap with AsianHookerStereotype, with countries like Thailand having a stereotype of being a hotbed of SexTourism for people looking for "ladyboys."

The Trans Chaser is a cisgender character who has a strong sexual interest in transgender or gender-nonconforming people; however, their attraction has no romantic element, and is often little more than a sexual fetish. The most common portrayal is of an (ostensibly) straight cisgender male who surreptitiously hooks up with transgender women or cross-dressers. If PlayedForLaughs, it usually involves a subversion of an UnsettlingGenderReveal, where he reacts a little too positively to learning that the women he's talking to is transgender. More serious works may insinuate that the Trans Chaser is a ClosetGay, and that having sex with someone with someone who resembles a cisgender woman is the best way he can rationalize his attraction without considering the possibility that he isn't straight. Of course, the vast majority of works featuring this trope only focus on the chaser--it's very rare to see an work examining [[TransTribulations the perspective of a trans character being fetishized]] outside of a specific subset of QueerMedia.

The context of this trope has usually changed over the decades. Until the 2000s or so, this depiction was often no more nuanced than FetishesAreWeird, with the point of shame being that the chaser is such a sexual deviant. But from the 2010s onward, where public attitudes about transgender rights began to shift, the Trans Chaser is far more likely to be depicted as an ArmoredClosetGay--if not an outright PoliticallyIncorrectVillain--who is openly homophobic or transphobic, but hypocritically has no problem having sex with trans people.

* ''Literature/{{Nevada}}'': James H. enjoys transgender fetish pornography, which Maria takes as one of the signs that James may be trans.

* WebVideo/ConMan: Sean Maher's character mistakenly believes that Wray's convention booker Bobbie (a cis woman) is male, then translates Wray's garbled explanation to mean that she is transgender. He immediately finds her "courageousness" attractive to the point of fetishizing her and desiring sex with "the real you." It doesn't help that Bobbie plays along.

* ''Magazine/{{MAD}}'': One comic strip in an issue shows a man sitting in a diner booth across from a woman holding a pet duck. He says he felt the typo was obvious in his online post about "chicks with ducks."

('''Indices:''' SexTropes, TropesAboutPerverts, AttractionToOutliers, GenderAndSexualityTropes, QueerAsTropes, TransgenderTropes)

('''Indices:''' SexTropes, TropesAboutPerverts, AttractionToOutliers, GenderAndSexualityTropes, QueerAsTropes, TransgenderTropes, NoRealLife.SexSexualityAndRapeTropes)

* ''Magazine/{{MAD}}'': One comic strip in an issue shows a man sitting in a diner booth across from a woman holding a pet duck. He explains how he made a typo when he posted online looking to hook up with "chicks with ducks."

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The context of this trope has usually changed over the decades. Until the 2000s or so, this depiction was often no more nuanced than FetishesAreWeird, with the point of shame being that he's such a sexually deviant. But from the 2010s onward, where public attitudes about transgender rights began to shift, the Trans Chaser is far more likely to be depicted as an ArmoredClosetGay--if not an outright PoliticallyIncorrectVillain--who is openly homophobic or transphobic, but hypocritically has no problem having sex with trans people.

* ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureTheJOJOLands'': One of the main characters is Dragona Joestar, who was assigned male at birth but enjoys dressing and presenting femininely to the point of getting surgical breast implants. Dragona is assaulted by a police officer who initially assumes them to be an attractive cis woman, but upon discovering that Dragona has male genitalia [[DepravedBisexual he becomes even more excited]].

The context of this trope has usually changed over the decades. Until the 2000s or so, this depiction was often no more nuanced than FetishesAreWeird, with the point of shame being that he's such a sexually deviant. But from the 2010s onward, where public attitudes about transgender rights and sex work began to shift, the Trans Chaser is far more likely to be depicted as an ArmoredClosetGay--if not an outright PoliticallyIncorrectVillain--who is openly homophobic or transphobic, but hypocritically has no problem having sex with trans people.

('''Indices:''' TheOldestProfession, SexTropes, TropesAboutPerverts, AttractionToOutliers, GenderAndSexualityTropes, QueerAsTropes, NoRealLife.SexSexualityAndRapeTropes)