Autogynephilia and Sexuality in Transsexual Women

Clinical and Theoretical Parallels Between Desire for Limb Amputation and Gender Identity Disorder: My article, which was published in Archives of Sexual Behavior in June 2006, discusses the relationship between autogynephilia and identity in nonhomosexual male-to-female transsexuals, and the parallels to persons who desire limb amputations.
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 forthcoming article 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.
Sexuality and Transsexuality: A New Introduction to Autogynephilia: This revision of my original essay contains critiques of Blanchard's autogynephilia-based theory.
Autogynephilia: Frequently-Asked Questions: Now somewhated dated, these are my responses to some of the questions and concerns that have arisen surrounding the autogynephilia controversy.
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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