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	Autogynephilia - T-Vox
		Autogynephilia (from Greek auto (self), gyno (woman) and philia (love) — "love of oneself as a woman") is a behavioral model proposed in 1989 by Ray Blanchard, who defines it as "a man's paraphilic tendency to be sexually aroused by the thought or image of himself as a woman."
		Another criticism of the theory of autogynephilia is that it defines gender dysphoria as a strictly sexual phenomenon.
		The autogynephilia model lumped "male gender dysphorics, paedophiles and fetishists" into a group that can be considered for this diagnosis as transsexual because of their "erotic target location error" (Freund 1993).
	www.t-vox.org /index.php?title=Autogynephilia (1182 words)

	Origins of the Concept of Autogynephilia
		Autogynephilia does not occur in women, that is, biological females are not sexually aroused by the simple thought of possessing breasts or vulvas.
		Autogynephilia is a misdirected type of heterosexual impulse, which arises in association with normal heterosexuality but also competes with it.
		Autogynephilia is simply one example of a larger class of sexual variations that result from developmental errors of erotic target localization.
	www.autogynephilia.org /origins.htm (3374 words)

	Autogynephilia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The predecessor of the current gender dysphoria model, a theory that could be called the transsexual/transvestism model (i.e the Benjamin Scale), practically prohibited any sexual feelings related to cross-dressing or cross-living (or at least the revelation of these feelings) for the diagnosis of transsexualism, which in turn was necessary for medical treatment.
		The autogynephilia model lumped "male gender dysphorics, paedophiles and fetishists" into a group that can be considered for this diagnosis as transsexual because of their "erotic target location error" (Freund 1993).
		The Concept of Autogynephilia and the Typology of Male Gender Dysphoria.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Autogynephilia (1119 words)

	The Gender Identity Fallacy
		Autogynephilia is the behavioral model describing non-homosexual males who, instead of being physically attracted to other women, are physically attracted to the idea of themselves as a woman (Blanchard 1989).
		Given that autogynephilia would appear to be not a fetish but a sexual orientation consisting of self-directed heterosexual arousal, (Blanchard 1992), one would then think that such an orientation would not only have states of arousal but also states of desire and states of sexual frustration, as do typical heterosexual or homosexual orientations.
		Given that autogynephilia, when viewed as a misdirected sexual orientation and not simply in terms of explicit autoerotic episodes, can account for gender dysphoria as a whole, with no plausible alternative explanation there is every reason to think that autogynephilia is not merely a symptom of gender dysphoria or concurrent syndrome but the underlying cause.
	transkids.us /gid.html (7615 words)

	Untitled Document
		Autogynephilia does not occur in women, that is, biological females are not sexually aroused by the simple thought of possessing breasts or vulvas.
		Autogynephilia is a misdirected type of heterosexual impulse, which arises in association with normal heterosexuality but also competes with it.
		Autogynephilia is simply one example of a larger class of sexual variations that result from developmental errors of erotic target localization.
	www.sexreassignment.com /autogynephilia.html (3480 words)

	Scarlet Letters: Girl Talk
		Autogynephilia is loosely defined as the sexual desire to become a woman.
		This autogynephilia concept was borne out of an effort to understand why a person would want to become a woman, especially when she faces opponents like genetics, hormones, the pink collar and the U.S. Passport system.
		There has been a chorus of voices debating about autogynephilia in and around the trans world, and very little of it ever says anything about giving this term credence by treating it like a static concept, rather than one which is still under construction.
	www.scarletletters.com /current/102802_nf_ra.shtml (1179 words)

	Transgender Etiology (Site not responding. Last check: )
		While autogynephilia is mentioned in the DSM IV-TR as a characteristic in the description of "Gender Identity Disorder", the DSM IV does not formally define autogynephilia as being a paraphilia or a diagnosis.
		Autogynephilia is relatively common among transsexuals, does not meet the criteria for being a paraphilia, and has no bearing on the suitability for HRT or GRS.
		Autogynephilia is not in the DSM as a diagnosis or a disorder either.
	members.tgforum.com /jamie/etiology (3042 words)

	Overview of the results for an investigation into the sexuality of transsexual and other women. (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Literally translated, autogynephilia means "love of oneself as a woman"; Blanchard uses it to mean sexual attraction to the thought of oneself as a woman.
		I wanted to test Blanchard's theory of autogynephilia using a sample that was not recruited through a clinical setting (so people who participated didn't have to worry that what they said would effect their chances of getting hormones/surgery etc.), and also use a group of biological females to compare my results to.
		Although autogynephilia was most commonly reported by transsexuals who were sexually attracted to females, or bisexual, it was seldom reported by asexual transsexuals, and reported by a significant number of transsexuals who were exclusively sexually attracted to males.
	elena.aut.ac.nz /homepages/staff/Tess-Lomax/Questionaire/SummaryOfResults.htm (1624 words)

	TS-Si - The Know-it-all Men Of The APA: Ray Blanchard
		In 1989 I coined the term “autogynephilia” from Greek roots meaning “love of oneself as a woman” and defined it as a male’s propensity to be erotically aroused by the thought or image of himself as a woman.
		Autogynephilia does not occur in women, that is, biological females are not sexually aroused by the simple thought of possessing breasts or vulvas.
		Autogynephilia, as described by Blanchard, is an extreme manifestation of transvestism that exists separate and distinct from Harry Benjamin Syndrome.
	ts-si.org /content/view/3206/995 (4462 words)

	Autogynephilia: a disputed diagnosis
		Note that like "ego-dystonic homosexuality," the diagnosis of "autogynephilia" is rarely used clinically, and there have only been a few articles in the scientific literature that use the concept.
		"Autogynephilia" proponents wish to see a differential diagnosis, meaning they want to separate gender-variant people into two distinct "illnesses." Although the axis of sexual preference is the most persistent, it is not the only one proposed.
		One of the most insidious problems with the science proposed by proponents of "autogynephilia" is the profound bias inherent in their unproven assumptions.
	www.tsroadmap.com /info/autogynephilia.html (3960 words)

	Gender Identity Disorder Reform
		Autogynephilia, on the merits of reason and evidence, seems to fall short of scientific credibility.
		In a social and historical context, autogynephilia joins a long litany of medical myths and stereotypes that reduce our rich capacity for gender diversity to mere sexual perversion.
		A more plausible alternative to the tangled theory of autogynephilia is perhaps an honest admission that the development of gender identity is not yet understood.
	gidreform.org /kwauto00.html (556 words)

	Trans Sexuality: Literature Review: Autogynephilia?
		Much has been made, both among the experts in clinical psychology and sexology and within trans communities, of the theory of autogynephilia -- first proposed by Ray Blanchard (1989) -- and this theory is perhaps emblematic of the short-sightedness that has until recently pervaded the professional literature on trans experience.
		He coined the term "autogynephilia" to describe the phenomenon of being sexually aroused by the thought or sight of oneself as a woman -- in his view a kind of sexual paraphilia -- and argued that, for nonandrophilic MTFs, autogynephilia may be a motivating factor in transitioning.
		If we isolate autogynephilia or autoandrophilia as occurring only in the trans world, we revictimize ourselves, perpetuating the invalidation most of us experienced for much of our lives.
	www.geocities.com /harperjeantobin/Autogynephilia.htm (820 words)

	TG Alphabet Soup \| Transgender & Transsexual glossary \| Tara's Transgender Resources (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In its literal translation means "self-love as a woman." Diagnostically, autogynephilia is an "erotic obsession with the image of one's self as a woman." Paraphilias are sexual desires or activities that lie outside the cultural norm, and under some conditions are considered perversions or even mental disorders, though those labels are controversial.
		Autogynephilia is listed in passing (not as a diagnosis) in the DSM IV.
		Autogynephilia has caused a firestorm in the transgender commmunity after the release of Michael Bailey's book, "The Man Who Would be Queen."
	users4.ev1.net /~taragem/terms.htm (2023 words)

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		Autogynephilia may be defined as a man’s paraphilic tendency to be sexually aroused by the thought or image of himself as a woman.
		According to this hypothesis, heterosexual transsexuals are males in whom autogynephilia interferes the least with normal erotic attraction to other persons—although many heterosexual transsexuals are able to maintain potency with women only by means of cross-gender fantasy during intercourse.
		The concept of autogynephilia is much broader, however, in that it encompasses transvestism as well as erotic fantasies and behaviors in which the wearing of women’s apparel is secondary or absent altogether.
	www.transgenderzone.com /library/ae/fulltext/39.htm (1569 words)

	Autogynephilia, a Narrative
		Ray Blanchard defines autogynephilia as "a man's paraphilic tendency to be sexually aroused by the thought or image of himself as a woman".
		I suggested that they had embraced the idea of autogynephilia as an officially sanctioned cause for their transsexuality because that excused them from having to disavow their maleness.
		It seems to me that many trans-women on the autogynephilia side of this dispute hold the belief that only very disgusting boys undeserving of their father's love would ever be disloyal to their birth sex.
	www.geocities.com /margimcghee/Articles/AG.htm (4502 words)

	Autogynephilia: The Runaway Train (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Autogynephilia is different in that those with this form of GID can imagine themselves as males, but are sexually stimulated by the feminization process-the results of which they will regret.
		Autogynehilia is common among cross-dressers, who go to hormones and other forms of permanent feminization which in the long run are enslaving for them and not liberating as is often the case with Transsexuals.
		Elaine is truly an extreme case of autogynephilia and was believed to be a so-called primary transsexual.
	www.realityresources.com /autogynephilia.htm (309 words)

	Gender Identity Disorder Reform
		Autogynephilia, which means, "the love of one's self as a woman," was proposed by Ray Blanchard, M.D., of the Toronto Clarke Institute in 1989 to explain the cause of transsexualism among MtFs who are not sexually attracted to men.
		Autogynephilia, on the merits of reason and evidence, seems to fall short of scientific credibility.
		A more plausible alternative to the tangled theory of autogynephilia is perhaps an honest admission that the development of gender identity is not yet understood.
	www.transgender.org /gidr/kwauto00.html (578 words)

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		There's a saying: "When your only tool is a hammer, every problem tends to look like a nail." I mention this because many of my problems with her statements about autogynephilia have to do with some of the medical/scientific justification she uses in her claims.
		Second, if what she says is true, then maybe one reason why the idea of an autogynephilia classification really sucks is that organizations like the Clarke are marginalizing the autogynephiles -- these TSs clearly don't think that they're getting what they want out of the organization, and they're complaining a lot.
		Transsexuals who are not sexually oriented toward men cannot get the same type of relief in that situation, and might learn to cope with their dysphoria in different ways ¾ say, by thinking about other cross-gendered behaviors such as cross-dressing.
	jenellerose.com /docs/BC_on_Gender_Autogynephilia.htm (2446 words)

	"Autogynephilia" support: a tiny fringe group
		A few dozen people worldwide have expressed public support for, or identification with, a sex-fueled mental illness called "autogynephilia." Ray Blanchard invented this disease, which suggests that gender variance is the expression of a paraphilia.
		He says someone with "autogynephilia" seeks vaginoplasty, but is then nothing more than "a man without a penis." The obscure and largely ignored diagnosis was rescued from oblivion in 1998 by Anne Lawrence, who appropriated it as a political identity.
		As of 24 March 2004, there were 34 unique posters on the “autogynephilia” support group in 2004, half of whom posted six or fewer times.
	www.tsroadmap.com /info/autogynephilia-support.html (731 words)

	J. Michael Bailey & The Man who would be Queen
		"Autogynephilia" can be thought of as a "phenomenon", which is just a fancy way of saying "a thing that happens." When a male-to-female transsexual has a sexual fantasy about being a woman, this definition says she expressed autogynephilia.
		I estimate that 93% of the 'non-homosexual' transsexuals and 65% of 'homosexual' transsexuals acknowledged autogynephilia.
		The term is theoretical because it conveys Ray Blanchard's theoretical claim that "autogynephilia" is a mis-directed sex-drive.
	www.genderpsychology.org /autogynephilia/j_michael_bailey/autogynephilia.html (2009 words)

	Michael Bailey, Book Controversy Question & Answer
		Autogynephilia can be understood as atypically-focused heterosexuality (i.e., focused on the woman inside rather than the women outside), and so to the extent that autogynephilic individuals are attracted to others, they should be attracted to women; this explains heterosexual transsexuals.
		Autogynephilia, remember, is the sexual and romantic desire for oneself as a woman.
		Someone with autogynephilia is likely to find it more rewarding to believe that she is psychologically similar to woman than to accept that she has become a woman to fulfill an erotic wish.
	www.psych.northwestern.edu /psych/people/faculty/bailey/controversy.htm (3704 words)

	Autogynephilia: A Mistaken Model
		Autogynephilia is a fetishistic sexual attraction to the idea of oneself as a woman.
		The basic idea behind Blanchard’s autogynephilia model is that “autogynephilic transsexuals” are essentially in love with the image of themselves as women.
		And tragically, Dr. Anne Lawrence, a transwoman herself, has embraced this terminology and is one of the foremost proponents of the autogynephilia theory (http://www.annelawrence.com/autogynephilia.html).
	www.starways.net /beth/ag.html (2309 words)

	The Autogynephilia Debate
		For the record, probably the biggest issue I have with "autogynephilia" is that it’s so damn hard to spell.
		The term autogynephilia is a constructed term describing sexual arousal related to viewing oneself as a female when biologically male.
		On the one side of the debate, there are those that suggest that the concept of autogynephilia helps give important insight into the motivation of bi-gendered people.
	bi_gender.tripod.com /Definitions/autogynephilia_debate.htm (661 words)

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		Thanks to Anne Lawrence, M.D., an MtoF physician in Seattle, the concept of autogynephilia was introduced at the August 1999 HBIGDA International Conference.
		Autogynephilia, which literally means "love of oneself as a woman," refers to the experience of some MtoFs who are aroused by the thought of themselves as a woman.
		As a psychotherapist and Gender Specialist the concept of autogynephilia provides an answer to many questions that have puzzled me about some of the individuals I have counselled.
	www.heathers.net /psy/genderchat/chat-26.html (562 words)

	The Autogynephilia Resource
		Her perspective as a transsexual woman who finds validity in the autogynephilia theory is valuable; her insight is unique, her analytical talents extraordinary.
		Origins of the Concept of Autogynephilia This is a document written by Dr. Ray Blanchard which places Autogynephilia in its proper historical context.
		Autogynephilia and the Taxonomy of Gender Identity Disorders in Biological Males This is a presentation on the research parameters and methods used by Dr. Blanchard in his development, and documentation of the Autogynephilia theory.
	www.autogynephilia.org (1240 words)

	Dr. X's Free Associations: The Thought Police: Discussion Of Autogynephilia Is Strictly Prohibited
		According to Bailey, autogynephilia distinguishes the motivation of these later-in-life transgendered men from the larger group of male-born transgendered persons who have always identified as women.
		I have no idea if Bailey is right about autogynephilia applying to the motivation of a significant number of transgendered persons, but I have little doubt about his formulation being rooted in psychological phenomena that real people report.
		Bailey isn't claiming that 'a small subset' of transwomen are motivated by autogynephilia; he's claiming that all transwomen who aren't exclusively heterosexual (and he describes this population as 'homosexual', thus demonstrating his disrespect for our identities) are really autogynephilic, and if we claim otherwise we must be lying.
	drx.typepad.com /psychotherapyblog/2007/08/psychology-in-t.html (3158 words)

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