Autogynephilia and Sexuality in Transsexual Women

Becoming What We Love: Autogynephilic Transsexualism Conceptualized as an Expression of Romantic Love: My 2007 invited article for Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, in PDF format.
Resurrected Writings About Autogynephilia: These excerpts from my early web essays have not appeared in any of my published articles.
Shame and Narcissistic Rage in Autogynephilic Transsexualism: My 2008 commentary article for Archives of Sexual Behavior, in PDF format.
Erotic Target Location Errors (ETLEs): Implications for the DSM-V: In an excerpt from my recent review for the Journal of Sex Research, I recommend that "Autogynephilia" should become a named paraphilia in the DSM-V, and that it should receive greater emphasis in the DSM-V's discusssion of Gender Identity Disorder.
Clinical and Theoretical Parallels Between Desire for Limb Amputation and Gender Identity Disorder: My 2006 article for Archives of Sexual Behavior, in PDF format.
Autogynephilia: A Paraphilic Model of Gender Identity Disorder: My 2004 article for the Journal of Gay & Lesbian Psychotherapy, in PDF format.
WEB LINK: The Controversy Surrounding The Man Who Would Be Queen: A Case History of the Politics of Science, Identity, and Sex in the Internet Age: Alice Dreger's article in Archives of Sexual Behavior provides "a cautionary tale about what can happen, in the Internet age, to researchers who broadcast unpopular theories threatening to 'marginal' (though politically empowered) groups invested in singular narratives of identity." Essential reading concerning the autogynephilia controversy.
An Androphilic Transsexual's Views on Androphilic and Autogynephilic Transsexuals: Kate Cartmell's letter describes her history and how it differs from that of autogynephilic transsexuals. An insightful and well-written contribution to the ongoing debate.
Twenty-Eight Narratives About Autogynephilia: Twenty-eight transsexual women describe their autogynephilic eroticism.
Thirty-One New Narratives About Autogynephilia: Still more narratives from transsexual women, describing their autogynephilic eroticism (or lack of it). Also included are five revealing fantasy narratives.
WEB LINK: The Autogynephilia Resource: This site contains articles and presentations by Ray Blanchard and essays about the ongoing autogynephilia controversy.
WEB LINK: Transkids.us: This web site, written by and about homosexual (nonautogynephilic) MtF transsexuals, describes how homosexual and autogynephilic transsexuals differ.

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