I'm going to burst a lot of bubbles here. I have spent most of my adult life among the queer community. There are hundreds of transgender women in The Gay Village, and there's Maitland St. where the trans hookers hang out. I know lots of them. I've worked with lots of outreach programs, including MealTrans, to help feed homeless trans youth, and numerous Aids committees.
No other genre of porn is more made up that 'Shemale'. (a really derogitory term) It's pure fantasy.
Trans women are WOMEN, they have ZERO desire to fuck a guy....ZERO.
Shemale porn invented the penetrating transwoman.
Trans women are all on a combination of anti-androgens (to eliminate testosterone, and physically to eliminate some male traits, most importantly erections) and estrogen, to both create some female traits (softer skin, breasts, hips) but most importantly the effect is mental (ridding the tendency to drink beer and shoot things, and think more like a woman.) Estrogen also kills erections, shrinks the penis, and testicles. Also, even a freak erection, caused by the body doing a self-diagnostic, can cause suicidal dyphoria, because the erection (and just still having a penis) IS THE ENEMY.
Trans women can't get it up!!!! (With a few exceptions)
So how did porno create the hybrids we see. First of all, they are in third world countries, mostly Brazil, and Thailand, and dotted around the S. Pacific. They are very poor, and will do dangerous things to make a living. By all means, go to Pattaya, and get a hooker. In real life, they wear filthy clothes, rarely bathe, and ALL of them would rather rob you. But you will get laid, and bring home some nice surprises for the wifey.
They do something called cycling, which is to go off their hormone regimen periodically until erectile function returns. Then they make movies. Then they go back on to prevent turning into neanderthals.
What about trans street hookers? Sadly, drug abuse is rampant, and what money they make goes to drugs, not hormones. They, for the most part do not look like porn stars.
Cycling hormones is Russian roulette. The human brain is not prepared to switch back and forth between female brain, and male brain with the regularity needed to perform in porn movies. Mental illness, and depression is rampant, and the suicide rate is always over 40% among trans people. In short, cycling hormones makes you as crazy as a shit-house rat. THAT'S how desperate these women are!!!
Yes, there are transwomen capable, and enjoying the ability to get erect, and to penetrate men. There are all types in this world. I have councelled 100's of transwomen, and have met ONE, she enjoys her job as an escort. More power to her.
'Shemale' porn is the only category, where to keep up the demand, they actually had to chemically create a new type of human.
Can you meet a trans woman for dating, marriage, etc? ABSOLUTELY, they are WOMEN, and want partners just like any other woman. Asking them to fuck YOU will just reinforce an impossible stereotype, and probably ruin what might have become a wonderful relationship.
The Queer community loves it's transwomen, and we work hard to keep them safe, off the streets, away from drugs and disease, and away from being exploited just for being who they are.