"A 2019 study asked 958 online participants, mostly young adults in Canada and the United States, which gender identities they would be interested in dating. In the sample, 3.3% of heterosexual men, 1.8% of heterosexual women, 11.5% of gay men, 28.8% of lesbian women, and 51.7% of bisexual, queer, and non-binary people (grouped together for analysis) reported they would be interested in dating a transgender person, and the remainder were not interested."
This I found on wikipedia, I'm sure trans activists would have had it removed if the study wasnt sound. Hehehe. That's like a new way to confirm gender research: If the trans activists is not able to discredit a piece of research in their disfavour, you know for a fact that the reasearch is of the noblest standard possible.
But I digress. My point is that the stats, that only 96,7% of hetero males would not even consider dating a trans woman, let alone sleeping with one, has another implication. It also means, the way I see it, that the trans woman that knows nothing of the potential partners desires, statisticly almost certainly is on a fraudulent path from the very beginning by not stating that it is a trans woman.
I'm not saying that this should be the first sentence when you match online, that would just be weird. But it certainly should be clear before you meet up. (To be honest, it should probably be very clear in the profile itself. That would be a best practice).
I work in criminal law. And here is what I feel about this: If it's not disclosed before kissing, that would for me feel like a mild form of sexual deceit. But probably not worthy any criminalization. But to be fooled into doing stuff together in bed would make me feel like I have been wronged in the most intimate setting. And the knowledge that the other person probably had the act of deceit as a strong sexual motive makes it even worse. So I think it should be illegal. It's basically not illegal in most of the world. I think it's illegal in Israel and Britain. I think the punishment could be somewhere in the line of 6 months to 2 years of incarceration - depending on the concrete circumstances of the case. Actual jail time. The situation Im thinking of is that of a "passing" (post operative) trans woman deceiving a hetero guy or lesbian woman into sex. If a trans man actually uses his neo penis to penetrate a natal lesbian women that would make it more severe than the situation im thinking of.
Yet still, the trans community would probably just read all this, shrug, and think, "What are they talking about, it's well established by now that a trans woman is a woman, so their argument or feelings is therefore invalid", and still conclude with "no moral obligation to tell, whatsoever =)".