Autoandrophilia vs. Autohomoerotic Sexuality
If you are paying attention to the latest discussions regarding sexology of female bodied gender dysphoria you may have come across a debate in which some of the old time sexologists have quibbles about the concept of autoandrophilic transgender sexuality. Oh, let’s spell it out, Ray Blanchard had once upon a time flat out denied that autoandrophilia exists, largely because he, as many other sexologists asserted, believed women never have paraphilias…. but then evidence poured in… OK… he says so some women have paraphilias (masochism being the most common)… but that still doesn’t mean that gay or bisexual identified transmen are autoandrophilic… they just have autohomoerotic fantasies of themselves as gay men.
Sigh… I say tomato, you say tahmahto…
Seriously, recent research has shown that autogynephilic males can experience essentially the same thing as Interpersonal Autogynephilia, in fact, many of them do, having fantasies in which they are lesbian. And no, one can’t say that they aren’t the same thing. Frankly, if males can experience autogynephilia as the result of an erotic target location error, by simple symmetry, we would expect that females can also experience autoandrophilia as a result of an erotic target location error.
Need proof that women experience an erotic target location errors? Consider amputee “devotees” and “wannabees”, people who are both sexually attracted to amputees and want to become an amputee. While most are men, there are women. Are we to say that female wannabees experience a different phenomena just because they are female? Seriously? I prefer to use Occam’s Razor and avoid unnecessary sexist ideology.
Back to autoandrophilia in androphilic transmen, we see the same sex ratio, very few such transmen compared to autogynephilic transwomen. And again, by Occam’s Razor, if we know that female bodied individuals can experience an erotic target location error as rare as amputee wannabee, then we fully expect to find it in simple androphilia as autoandrophilia. It might “look” different than what we find in males, but it’s still there.
Further Reading:
Essay on Androphilic Transmen being Autoandrophilic
Essay on Amputee Wannabees and Erotic Target Location Errors
Further External Reading:
https://meduza.io/en/feature/2017/08/02/lose-a-leg-find-yourself
Camille Paglia Is NOT Transgender
Have you noticed that more and more the mainstream press is using the term “transgender identified” or describes someone as “identifies as transgender”? They didn’t used to do this; and for good reason. Journalists have twigged to the fact that many people who are lately claiming to be trans aren’t. The most notable example is Camille Paglia, the “feminist” who isn’t. Camille Paglia is claiming to be transgender so she can troll actual transfolk, just as she trolls feminists.
I’m sure that journalists have noted that Ms. Paglia never presented in the least bit gender dysphoric, not now, not ever. Her appearance is perhaps on the marginally tomboyish side… a look that was common for many women back in the late ’70s and ’80s from when her fashion choices were made. At best, she might be taken to be a “soft butch” as Leslie Feinberg would likely have described her.
Does Camille bind her breasts? Does Camille use testosterone? Does Camille even present as a man? Does Camille even have a man’s haircut? Is Camille even the least bit gender atypical in behavior, mannerisms, etc.?
What self respecting actual transperson would write of transfolk like this, as she is paraphrased in a recent The Atlantic essay,
“You are either born male, female, or deformed (physically or mentally). Trans people are mentally diseased and often violent. If they are not able to accept the reality of their disease and cope with it they must be removed from society by any means necessary. Some might argue that the high suicide rate among those suffering from this severe mental disease is nature correcting itself. Camille Paglia is a transgender person who was able to accept and overcome her mental disease. Be like Camille.”
Read that bit of text again, especially the part “must be removed from society by any means necessary”. These are words we would expect to be coming from the alt-right, not a transperson. If she were speaking of removing Jews ‘from society by any means necessary’ and claimed to be Jewish but has no Jewish ancestors, what would your conclusion be? When confronted by seeming contradictions, one should look to the most likely explanation based on actual behavior rather than identity claims. Camille is trolling transfolk. Claiming to be transgender herself is part of that trolling.
Why would an academic troll transfolk at all? Well, because it garners attention. Consider that Jordan Peterson was a little known second rate academic psychologist with very puerile philosophic notions until he leapt to the world stage by pointedly insulting transfolk in a viral video. Trolling transfolk is very popular among people who have nothing much else to contribute to modern thought. The real trans population is too small to politically defend itself and thus make for an easy and exotic target to troll to gain notoriety.
Do I support efforts to remove Camille from her academic post? No. Do I support calling her out for her transphobic trolling and false claims of being transgender? Absolutely!
Claiming to be trans does not make one trans. Being transgender is not like being a Republican or Democrat which are identities that one earns by self appellation. One simply is trans in the same way that one is gay or lesbian.
Camille Paglia is a transphobic troll, not transgender.
Further Reading:
JK Rowling and The Transphobic Big Lie Machine
Essay on people, mostly teenagers, falsely claiming to be transgender
Further External Reading:
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/05/camille-paglia-uarts-left-deplatform/587125/
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08P3SFF88
Have you noticed that more and more the mainstream press is using the term “transgender identified” or describes someone as “identifies as transgender”? They didn’t used to do this; and for good reason. Journalists have twigged to the fact that many people who are lately claiming to be trans aren’t. The most notable example is Camille Paglia, the “feminist” who isn’t. Camille Paglia is claiming to be transgender so she can troll actual transfolk, just as she trolls feminists.
I’m sure that journalists have noted that Ms. Paglia never presented in the least bit gender dysphoric, not now, not ever. Her appearance is perhaps on the marginally tomboyish side… a look that was common for many women back in the late ’70s and ’80s from when her fashion choices were made. At best, she might be taken to be a “soft butch” as Leslie Feinberg would likely have described her.
Does Camille bind her breasts? Does Camille use testosterone? Does Camille even present as a man? Does Camille even have a man’s haircut? Is Camille even the least bit gender atypical in behavior, mannerisms, etc.?
What self respecting actual transperson would write of transfolk like this, as she is paraphrased in a recent The Atlantic essay,
“You are either born male, female, or deformed (physically or mentally). Trans people are mentally diseased and often violent. If they are not able to accept the reality of their disease and cope with it they must be removed from society by any means necessary. Some might argue that the high suicide rate among those suffering from this severe mental disease is nature correcting itself. Camille Paglia is a transgender person who was able to accept and overcome her mental disease. Be like Camille.”
Read that bit of text again, especially the part “must be removed from society by any means necessary”. These are words we would expect to be coming from the alt-right, not a transperson. If she were speaking of removing Jews ‘from society by any means necessary’ and claimed to be Jewish but has no Jewish ancestors, what would your conclusion be? When confronted by seeming contradictions, one should look to the most likely explanation based on actual behavior rather than identity claims. Camille is trolling transfolk. Claiming to be transgender herself is part of that trolling.
Why would an academic troll transfolk at all? Well, because it garners attention. Consider that Jordan Peterson was a little known second rate academic psychologist with very puerile philosophic notions until he leapt to the world stage by pointedly insulting transfolk in a viral video. Trolling transfolk is very popular among people who have nothing much else to contribute to modern thought. The real trans population is too small to politically defend itself and thus make for an easy and exotic target to troll to gain notoriety.
Do I support efforts to remove Camille from her academic post? No. Do I support calling her out for her transphobic trolling and false claims of being transgender? Absolutely!
Claiming to be trans does not make one trans. Being transgender is not like being a Republican or Democrat which are identities that one earns by self appellation. One simply is trans in the same way that one is gay or lesbian.
Camille Paglia is a transphobic troll, not transgender.
Further Reading:
JK Rowling and The Transphobic Big Lie Machine
Essay on people, mostly teenagers, falsely claiming to be transgender
Further External Reading:
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/05/camille-paglia-uarts-left-deplatform/587125/
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