I meant that there’s a global brain-weirdness trait that causes deviations from the norm in more than one way. So a transwoman’s attraction to women may well be caused by the normal-sexuality module (which causes both cisness and heterosexuality) breaking down, rather than by her heterosexuality module working correctly.
I never heard a psychologist attribute transsexualism to perversion.
It used to be the standard explanation, which I conjecture came from psychoanalysis’s bad habit to say “sexual perversion!” to just about everything. Young male-liking transwomen were classified as gay men, and old female-liking transwomen were classified as autogynephilic men.
Seriously though, you independently generated the autogynephilia hypothesis? If you did, that’s pretty strong evidence for it. I agree there’s a gap between young-transition and old-transition women, though I’ve seen Dan Savage spout some serious bullshit before so maybe we’re seeing a pattern that isn’t there.
A single-cluster explanation is that if you’re a transwoman who likes men, you have to accept you’re queer in the first place (a bi or gay man). This makes it easier to accept you’re trans. Whereas if you’re a lesbian (or asexual?) transwoman, you have to accept both transsexuality and homosexuality at once, which takes longer.
If there are multiple clusters, I would expect them to be similar among MTFs and FTMs, because of the other similarities (e.g. number of transpeople in each). Is there any evidence of autoandrophilia?
Also, while there seems to be evidence for the multiple-cluster hypothesis, what makes you think that old straight transwomen are motivated by a sexual fetish?
Seriously though, you independently generated the autogynephilia hypothesis? If you did, that’s pretty strong evidence for it. I agree there’s a gap between young-transition and old-transition women, though I’ve seen Dan Savage spout some serious bullshit before so maybe we’re seeing a pattern that isn’t there.
It’s consistent with my (admittedly anecdotal) observations as well.
If there are multiple clusters, I would expect them to be similar among MTFs and FTMs, because of the other similarities (e.g. number of transpeople in each). Is there any evidence of autoandrophilia?
FTMs seem to be generally attracted to women. Savage also claimed that most FTMs are attracted to women. There also seems to be fewer FTM than MTF. This seems to support the view that most FTMs are male-minded and not fetishists.
I meant that there’s a global brain-weirdness trait that causes deviations from the norm in more than one way. So a transwoman’s attraction to women may well be caused by the normal-sexuality module (which causes both cisness and heterosexuality) breaking down, rather than by her heterosexuality module working correctly.
It used to be the standard explanation, which I conjecture came from psychoanalysis’s bad habit to say “sexual perversion!” to just about everything. Young male-liking transwomen were classified as gay men, and old female-liking transwomen were classified as autogynephilic men.
Seriously though, you independently generated the autogynephilia hypothesis? If you did, that’s pretty strong evidence for it. I agree there’s a gap between young-transition and old-transition women, though I’ve seen Dan Savage spout some serious bullshit before so maybe we’re seeing a pattern that isn’t there.
A single-cluster explanation is that if you’re a transwoman who likes men, you have to accept you’re queer in the first place (a bi or gay man). This makes it easier to accept you’re trans. Whereas if you’re a lesbian (or asexual?) transwoman, you have to accept both transsexuality and homosexuality at once, which takes longer.
If there are multiple clusters, I would expect them to be similar among MTFs and FTMs, because of the other similarities (e.g. number of transpeople in each). Is there any evidence of autoandrophilia?
Also, while there seems to be evidence for the multiple-cluster hypothesis, what makes you think that old straight transwomen are motivated by a sexual fetish?
It’s consistent with my (admittedly anecdotal) observations as well.
FTMs seem to be generally attracted to women. Savage also claimed that most FTMs are attracted to women. There also seems to be fewer FTM than MTF. This seems to support the view that most FTMs are male-minded and not fetishists.
Okay, but why a fetish?