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The question “does this make me gay” is always sticky. For one thing, it assumes a single incident of sex with a person of the same gender (however defined) means that one is gay, which I think is questionable - if I had sex with a woman, would that make me straight?
It’s been put to me that if I had (and presumably enjoyed) sex with a woman, I’d be bisexual - or that “everyone is partly bisexual” - but IMHO that stretches labels out to the point of worthlessness. I seem to recall statistics that said that something like 60% of self-identifying gay men and 90% of self-identifying lesbians had had straight sex at some point.
But they refer to themselves as gay men or lesbians - why? presumably because they are interested in people of the same gender to the point that they don’t care to let opposite-gender people know they have a chance.
This is part of the reason why best practice is to accept people’s labels for themselves. Presumably they have a reason for identifying as they do; it’s not up to me to inform you as to your sexual orientation.
I would therefore argue that if you were to have sex with a trans person at any point on the transition plane, and you felt honest in continuing to identify as straight, that would be your prerogative.
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In general I would agree with you. But he did ask my viewpoint, so I gave it.
