I found the top not to be too true in Northwest and Western states. Genderfluidity is common in cities like Portland and Seattle. Though the tickling communities aren't very big here. The BDSM community in particular tend to be far more open to variance in gender and orientation. Nice to see guys who aren't so squirmy about being with other guys in flexible ways for instance. There's just less drama over labeling in general.
The tickling community, sadly, isn't like the bdsm community in reality however. I've found it to be quite selective in its presentation when it comes to orientation and whom it serves. In the early 2000s, when Tickletheater and the TMF were growing, TT was one of the few places you could post M/M material without being yelled at. Homophobia was openly practiced on the TMF and it took a long time to quell.
It's kind of interesting, seeing as it's pretty much everywhere now. Yet that's why you had gay only tickling sites for so long, even with girl/girl material for years until people started to relax. People into tickling actually have a lot of heterosexual~vanilla variance compared to bdsm and other forms of kink, which seems to be more about exploring, escaping comfort zones, and experimentation. The tickling scene has been playing catchup for a bit now.
Also, I believe Tickle Abuse did have a transgirl in their roster, but you'll be hard pressed to find her, as there was no mention of it because, well, there was no need to. She was a girl like the others. It's kind of hard to have the kind of content you want op, without turning it all into some kind of niche fetish.
