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. ❋ Unknown (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. ❋ Unknown (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. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Also her diagnosis of all trans women who disagree with autogynephilia as experiencing “narcissistic rage.” ❋ Unknown (2008)
I, for one, welcome these two clarifications but am disappointed to note that he remains silent on the contentious issue of autogynephilia. ❋ Unknown (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. ❋ Zoe Brain (2008)
"This question of whether autogynephilia should be listed as a disorder is strictly an American preoccupation," he says. ❋ Zoe Brain (2008)
Furthermore, everyone else is suffering from a sex-fueled mental illness called “autogynephilia”. ❋ Unknown (2007)
He asked Brown if people seeking treatment for GID might instead have autogynephilia, a concept promoted by controversial sexologist Ray Blanchard that suggests some transwomen may be men who are aroused by the thought of having a vagina. ❋ Zoe Brain (2007)
This theory is prominently featured in the pseudo science book Recent studies have found autogynephilia occuring in 93% of cis women, which is really not surprising, because the theory itself is a farce driven by bigotry. ❋ Unknown (2009)
W-e-l-l … I already knew about Anne Lawrence and Michael Bailey from the autogynephilia – eugenics and Man Who Would Be Queen controversies. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Worryingly, this second proposal has already been outlined by Ray Blanchard (chair of the Paraphilias Subcommittee and inventor of the mental illness he terms autogynephilia) in a paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Sex Therapy and Research (SSTAR) in April 2009 (link here; see also Julia Serano’s piece for Feministing, “Why feminists should be concerned with the impending revision of the DSM”, link here). ❋ Unknown (2009)
Anne’s spent years trying to bully the trans community into accepting that autogynephilia has a thing to do with being transsexual. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Blanchard himself is arguably equally notorious for inventing the mental illness he terms autogynephilia (” a mans paraphilic tendency to be sexually aroused by the thought or image of himself as a woman”) ❋ Unknown (2008)
