 (2) It is unclear why the gender/sex of the person with the orientation should be a component of the conception of sexual orientation. Under the poplar conception, if a formerly straight man is currently a woman (after transitioning), they would now be a lesbian (assuming that their sexual desires for women does not change). But if we omit the person’s own gender from the conception, the person’s sexual orientation remains the same. Perhaps this would be politically and morally better (Dembroff 2017).