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1/ I think many people who keep up on #gendercritical ideas believe this but I've not seen it spelled out anywhere.
I believe there are 4 umbrella groups of trans people to talk about: 2 MtF and 2 FtM.
1 of each group should be encouraged to slow down the transition process.
I believe there are 4 umbrella groups of trans people to talk about: 2 MtF and 2 FtM.
1 of each group should be encouraged to slow down the transition process.
2/ For men/boys transitioning to a female appearance, the @BlanchardPhD typology is clear still today: some are otherwise homosexual men who are so feminine that they want their appearance to match. Some are autogynephiles obsessed with looking like what they're attracted to.
3/ The percentage of each is totally unknown, but porn, particularly genres like sissy hypno being viewed by kids barely in puberty, has almost certainly made the autogynephilic population explode. This would cover almost all self-identified #transbians. https://www.reddit.com/r/sissyhypno/
4/ Our institutions — schools, psychologists, and medical professionals — that could and should be doing some degree of gatekeeping need to identify this split. Psychologists need to ask trans-ID'ed youth about their sexual fantasies, particularly the young MtF crowd.
5/ Are fetishes bad in and of themself? Depends on the fetish, of course. If your fetish is eating people, that's a problem. If your fetish is touching feet, you can probably "live that truth" in a variety of fairly harmless ways.
6/ Autogynephilia's "goodness," like anything, depends on how it impacts other people. Like @jk_rowling has pointed out and like much of the GC community argues for, this steps into and on women's rights.
7/ Perhaps a bigger reason for a psychologist interested in serving their client, an autogynephile who's 20, let's say, is that this may very well be the product of a porn addiction and they may complete this transition, burn out, and be left with a ruined body.
8/ The elephant in the room is the autogynephile's relationship to the porn they consume and how that's evolved throughout puberty.
Forums in the NoFap community are the de facto way they deal with their addiction. Many fantasize about transition. https://forum.nofap.com/index.php?threads/beware-of-sissy-hypnosis.96845/
Forums in the NoFap community are the de facto way they deal with their addiction. Many fantasize about transition. https://forum.nofap.com/index.php?threads/beware-of-sissy-hypnosis.96845/
9/ A psychologist's job, especially with young people, is to help them live their life to the fullest in the moment while thinking of their future versions of themselves. Immediately sending autogynephilic kids down the transition route is a dereliction of that duty.
10/ For the FtM crowd, girls and women transitioning to a male appearance, you have a slightly different dynamic at play: a longer-established group of lesbians who identify with the masculine so intensely that they want their appearances to match, then there's the #rogd kids.
11/ @AbigailShrier's book is a bit right of where I'd stand in a few minor ways, but the crux of it seems as plain as day: these girls are part of a social contagion.
Like with autogynephilic boys, there's a complete dereliction of duty by our safeguarding institutions.
Like with autogynephilic boys, there's a complete dereliction of duty by our safeguarding institutions.
12/ Schools, psychologists/psychiatrists, and the medical world are only handing them high fives and cups of water in this marathon #rogd girls think they absolutely must run, a marathon with no end, and somebody has to ask "why exactly are you in this race?"
13/ That's my stance: slowing down the process for autogynephilic boys and #rogd girls, first and foremost. Slowing down the process a bit for everyone, but especially those two subgroups.
It could help the mildly interested to understand "this trans thing" as 4 subtypes.
It could help the mildly interested to understand "this trans thing" as 4 subtypes.
14/ While @LisaLittman1's study of #rogd girls has been silenced, at least it exists. Porn consumption of adolescents that appeals to and creates autogynephilia has not been studied, as far as I know.
Both need to be studied in depth. /END
Both need to be studied in depth. /END
