autogynephilia love

Definitions

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  • noun a form of sexual response in biological males characterized by sexual arousal over the idea of being or becoming female
  • noun a supposed form of gender identity disorder.
  • noun The phenomenon of gender identity disorder when caused by extreme transvestic fetishism.

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Examples

  • Additionally, trans women are the subject of pet theories like autogynephilia, which is defined by an erotic interest in the thought or image of oneself as a woman.

    Shakesville 2009

  • Additionally, trans women are the subject of pet theories like autogynephilia, which is defined by an erotic interest in the thought or image of oneself as a woman.

    Shakesville 2009

  • Blanchard coined the term "autogynephilia" — "the propensity to be sexually aroused by the thought or image of oneself as a woman" — as a way of designating this group.

    A New Way to Be Mad 2000

  • Blanchard coined the term "autogynephilia" — "the propensity to be sexually aroused by the thought or image of oneself as a woman" — as a way of designating this group.

    A New Way to Be Mad 2000

  • The fact is that there is a substantial body of medical and scientific evidence which shows quite clearly that gender is not something we make up, either as a result of suffering a ‘mental disorder’ (as the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) defines us), or for sexual gratification (fetishism, autogynephilia), or for any of the other ludicrous and offensive reasons that uninformed people like to believe.

    Yet another trans 101, in which Helen tells cis people What’s What 2009

  • The fact is that there is a substantial body of medical and scientific evidence which shows quite clearly that gender is not something we make up, either as a result of suffering a ‘mental disorder’ (as the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) defines us), or for sexual gratification (fetishism, autogynephilia), or for any of the other ludicrous and offensive reasons that uninformed people like to believe.

    Yet another trans 101, in which Helen tells cis people What’s What 2009

  • I, for one, welcome these two clarifications but am disappointed to note that he remains silent on the contentious issue of autogynephilia.

    Crazy love 2008

  • Also her diagnosis of all trans women who disagree with autogynephilia as experiencing “narcissistic rage.”

    APA Task Force Report underreports the prevalence of gender identity disorder 2008

  • Thus, those who wish to reject a male assignment will be labeled as paraphilic, and those who want to live as males will make this appear more justifiable, plus this will fuel their desire against feminizing surgeries Those who virilize at puberty and insist on masculinizing surgeries will be those whom they will seek to find grant money for in order to investigate if autoandrophilia the counterpart in “females” of autogynephilia exists.

    Transsexual Causation, the American Psychiatric Association, and Interpol Zoe Brain 2008

  • "This question of whether autogynephilia should be listed as a disorder is strictly an American preoccupation," he says.

    Transsexual Causation, the American Psychiatric Association, and Interpol Zoe Brain 2008

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  • Biological sex is not a social construct. Women’s sex-based oppression is real. Housing people with male genitalia in spaces with victims of male sexual violence can be harrowing to women inmates. Mental illnesses like autogynephilia and other dysphorias can cause dangerous, irrevocable damage. And gender theorists are erasing women, much like patriarchy does.--Vaishnavi Sundar

    December 26, 2021